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CULTURE
Stories and perspectives from Lindy Hop legends
David Butts
David Butts was coached by the famous Mama Lu Parks in the 1950s whose group carried on the Lindy Hop from the 1950s to the 1990s. As a leader of her Parkettes dance troupe he performed around the world traveling to England, Africa, and Mexico. He also participated in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico. He is also a Harvest Moon Ball champion.
David learned Lindy Hop from the original Lindy Hoppers who danced at the Savoy Ballroom and he still teaches and demonstrates his favorite Lindy Hop and Jazz dance moves within the global Lindy Hop community.
Sugar Sullivan
Sugar Sullivan started her career at the age of nine. She was a member of the Original Jazz Dancers, a distinguished group of Lindy Hoppers and Hoofers from Harlem’s heyday. Sugar has been featured with the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, Cab Calloway’s Hi-De-Ho Orchestra, and Panama Francis and his Savoy Sultans, among others.
Sugar is also Harvest Moon Ball champion and she performed across the USA, as well as Canada with Sonny Allen and the Rockets.
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Barbara Billups
Barbara is a former Savoy Ballroom dancer and Harvest Moon Ball Champion, as well as a former partner with the dance group Sonny Allen and the Rockets. Her insights and her irrepressible humor are treasured by dancers everywhere she goes.
Barbara and Sugar met at the Savoy Ballroom in the early fifties. They have performed across the USA, as well as Canada with Sonny Allen and the Rockets. They’ve taught in Houston, Texas, Seattle, Washington, and Herrang Dance Camp in Sweden. Sugar and Barbara are both in the International Lindy Hop Hall of Fame.
Check out Sugar & Barbara dancing a few years back...
Learn a bit about David Butts...
Sylvia Sykes
Sylvia Sykes has taught everything from beginner lessons to master classes to students all over the world. She is an inductee into the National Swing Dance Hall of Fame, as well as the California Swing Dance Hall of Fame and she has won many Strictly Swing and Jack & Jill dance contests in the U.S. in Lindy Hop, Balboa, and West Coast Swing.
Having learned from and danced with many masters of the dance and after teaching around the world for over 3 decades, we have graduated Sylvia to the status of "Junior Old-Timer" and she will be teaching this weekend and sharing stories at our Sunday culture session.
Check out Sylvia & Skye from the Uptown Swingout 2016...
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Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Dances & Picnic Party
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Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Dances
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