Lindy Fest!

On the Houston Swing Dance Society‘s Website they say:

Lindyfest is an amazing lindy hop weekend workshop jammed packed with classes for all dance levels, soul sessions with living legends, hot performances and four endless nights of dancing. Lindyfest brings in hundreds of dancers from all across the globe to learn lindy hop from the masters and experience the excitement of Lindy Hop, all here in Houston. HSDS is proud to present our 2009 Lindyfest Instructors: Frankie Manning Dawn Hampton        Chazz Young              Sylvia Sykes Ryan Francois             Jenny Thomas          Steven Mitchell           Nick Williams Virginie Jensen           Peter Strom              Ramona Staffeld         Naomi Uyama Nina Gilkenson           Andy Reid                Skye Humphries         Frida Segerdahl Max Pitruzzella           Annie Trudeau         Mikey Pedroza           Laura Keat

The event will be March 12th through 15th. Frankie Manning was one of the creators of Lindy Hop. He and his partner did the first aerials! He has his 95th birthday (he was born May 26, 1914) this year…and he’s still dancing and teaching!!