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Lennart Westerlund

Happy Frankie 99

26.05.2013 by Chris

For Frankie Manning's 99th birthday, Ewa Burak and Lennart Westerlund choreographed the Global 99 Choreo and the Frankie Manning Foundation asked the worldwide swing dance scene to send a clip of that choreography from their hometown.

Global 99 Choreo from Zürich Switzerland

A group of dancers from Zürich filmed that clip at the weekly open-air event Bürklihop, which is happening every Thursday evening during the summer months.

Filmed and edited by Stefan Deuber.

Check out The Frankie Manning Birthday Blog for all the other contributions.

Filed Under: History/Culture, Personalities Tagged With: Ewa Burak, Frankie 99, Frankie Manning, Global 99 Choreo, Lennart Westerlund, Stefan Deuber

30 Week Lindy Hop Challenge: Favorite Class Taken

07.09.2012 by Chris

Every Friday for thirty weeks, I will write about a topic from the list of the
«30 Week Lindy Hop Challenge«.

This week, I'm talking about:

Week #9: Favorite class taken – Not a dance class, though

30 Week Lindy Hop Challenge: Favorite Class Taken

It was in 2005 at Waterkant Jam, a Lindy Hop festival in Hamburg Germany.

Lennart Westerlund, yes THE Lennart, was teaching a musicality class with live band.

He was talking about the structure of jazz and the band was playing what he was talking about.

I would say, to have a live band in class was at that time quite unique.

But that's only half of the story.

If you know Lennart, then you know that he does things always a little bit differently.

So, he was talking about the AABA structure. Therefore he lined up three apples and another fruit as a visual example. Then he started to eat pieces of two apples to illustrate, that not all of the ‹A's in the AABA structure are exactly the same.

It was hilarious!

Could one show you that in a more memorable way?


<< Last Friday: #8 Your favorite instructor

>> Next Friday: #10 Favorite workshop weekend (Lindy Focus, Camp Hollywood, etc) or one you’d really like to attend

Filed Under: Dance Tagged With: 30 Day Lindy Hop Challenge, 30 Week Lindy Hop Challenge, AABA, Lennart Westerlund, Musicality

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