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DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG

Behold this awesome little booklet chock full of vintage slang. Ever wonder what sort of weird words people were saying back when Lindy was born? You may now enjoy Slang-a-Week!

sing small:

To lower one's demand; eat humble pie.

UPCOMING EVENTS!

Lindy Lab

Wednesday, March 10

The Secret Lair

7PM - 10PM

Come experiment in the mad science of lindy hop!  $5 at the door, or buy a punchcard!

7-7:30:  Private Lessons with the Mad Scientists.  Grab a scientist and work together on your swingout, moves, frame, whatever!

7:30-8: Gotta Love Shim Sham!  Meghan & the Scientists will be showing you Frankie's version of the Shim Sham.  Its like the lindy hoppers' national anthem.  You don't want to miss this line dance!

8-10: Dance Party

2nd Saturday Swing

Saturday, March 13

The Dance Space -  Richmond, VA

8:30PM - 11:30PM 

$7 General Admission, $5 Students
Hop in the car and drive down with us to Richmond's Second Saturday Swing!

Check out DJ tunes by C'ville's Meghan Hunter!

Hosted by the Usual Lindy Suspects.

 

Greenwich Swing Time

Monday, March 15

7PM - 11PM

South St. Brewery

Grab some fries, a shirley temple, & a partner!  No cover, but order something to help support our venue & band.  George Melvin on Keyboards; John Carden on vocals; and a collaboration of some of the best jazz musicians that you don't want to miss!

NEXT LAB EXPERIMENT:

Blues & Bal

Bed & Breakfast

Join us for workshops and dancing all night.  We've got a giant house with room to sleep 30 folks!  Come have a giant slumber party with us and join us for an amazing brunch prepared by a professonial chef!

Coming in June 2010.

 

 

NEXT LAB DANCE

Saturday

March 27, 2010

Workshop Topic TBA

5PM - 7PM

at The Secret Lair

 

Save the Date!  Info coming soon!

 

 

Rhythm Juice is an exciting new online social networking site DESIGNED FOR LINDY HOPPERS!

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! As a premium member of RhythmJuice, not only will you be able connect with other dancers, musicians, organizers, etc., share pictures and videos and obsess about Lindy Hop all in one handy online location, complete with global chat(!) but you will have access to the world's most amazing instructional videos, created by the world's most amazing instructors anytime day or night. All you need is an internet connection, and BOOM, BABY. Dax is in your living room, showing you how to put some juice in your rhythms!

I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am about this website. So excited, in fact, that the Lindy Lab will  have certain hours dedicated to practicing RhythmJuice material each week. We will have a Lindy Lab group on RhythmJuice to keep track of the training videos we've tackled...and anyone is welcome to join this little experiment!

Some amazing facts about the future of RJ: Imagine your swing club needs a piece of kick ass choreography for an upcoming performance, but darn it, there's no time to come up with one! You need something NOW! Guess what? The top choreographers in the world are going to create instructional videos with entire pieces of choreography broken down for you, ready to learn. Have a question? Howabout posting it to RJ and receiving a video response from the choreographer!

RhythmJuice promises to connect our global community in a way that even FaceBook hasn't accomplished! There's so much more in store, but you'll just have to trust me that it's going to be amazing times ten.

If you'd like to be included in the beta test for RhythmJuice, click here to sign up!