Dancing, teaching, and having fun!
Our performance troupe is performing next week at the Emmanuel College May Ball! The first number we do is a girls ’20s charleston. It is really fun and high energy and we are wearing are new dresses. I love it!
April 2007
We went to Barcelona for five days with three of our good Cambridge friends. We were visiting a swing dance camp called Barswingona, we looked around Barcelona and we caught up with other dance friends from around the world. I had lots of fun dancing in Barcelona and here are some photos.
The dance floor was very large, very busy and full of good dancers (and a few too many who ‘thought’ they were THE BEST, but we ignored them).
One day we also danced on a square outdoors to live music.
During the day we went sight seeing and guess what we bumped into: a little jazz band playing in one of the main shopping streets. Of course we had to have a dance.
Everyone watching loved it, especially the funny Portuguese man who you see in the photo below. He walked up REALLY close taking footage and photos with his camera.
I not only ‘like’ dancing outside. I LOVE it!
I was reminded myself when a friend of mine took this photo of me at the Cambridge Lindy Hopper’s first ever Lindy Bomb! A ‘lindy bomb’ basically means you choose a place and time, you bring some fine jazz tunes, you invite your dancing friends and you DANCE 
Don’t ask me what I am doing in the photo. It must have been one of my famous improvisation moves. They are all truly amazing, original and like nothing else!
So, proven here, Lotte is in her element when:
She is with friends and family,
outside in the sunshine,
in a nice location, like a park,
dancing Lindy Hop!
YAY
Check out my new Charleston dress!
I am so happy. I have been looking for a proper Charleston dress for years now and yesterday I got three in one go thanks to my good friend Ros! See here, one of them.
Ros is a Lindy Hopper and for her living she designs and makes costumes as Rosalind Evans Design. Ros is on the left in the photo below wearing a white shirt. She just happened to have a whole heap of wonderful Charleston dresses that she ‘wanted to get rid off’, because they were taking up space. When she said this, it was like a dream come true for us!
So, me and my dance friends were visiting her at the first possible opportunity. Thanks to your mum Ros for the wonderful freshly baked scones with jam and cream. Yummie
Altogether, one of the most exciting Sundays in a while!
Just a week ago I performed in the show ‘Elemental’ – CUCDW Dance Show at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge. I performed in a street dance number called ‘Wonders of this World’, which was really fun and also challenging as I was dancing this style for the first time. I really liked the choreography and only remembered it a week before the show. SCARY, but great experience. I think I will do some more of it this year.
In the photo we are in the blues dance section of the beginning of our Lindy Hop performance Berry Blues/Bottom’s Up. This was not as challenging for me as I have performed Lindy Hop before, but it was just as great to do as I had never performed Lindy Hop in a professional stage setting. WHoo hee.
Photos copyright Duncan Grisby, 2007.