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Collegiate Shag Archives
Arthur Murray: How to ShagSeptember 28, 2011As a follow up to yesterday's Arthur Murray post, here's a clip of the man himself teaching and demonstrating shag. Boy, do those kiddos learn fast or what? |
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Shag Division At ILHC 2012: A Call To ActionAugust 13, 2011Petition for Shag Contest at ILHC: I’m sure all of us would love to see a shag contest at a high profile event such as ILHC. As it is fast approaching, now is a great time to petition for a shag contest for next year. I spoke with one of the organizers about it and running a contest presents challenges of paying for judges and prize awards. Thus, to run a successful contest, ILHC would need about 20 couples. |
Collegiate Shag: Getting “Behind” A MisconceptionJuly 01, 2011In my travels across the United States one of the interesting misconceptions I have run into when chatting people about Collegiate Shag is that the proper posture is with ones’ butt or “fanny” out. The baffling thing to myself is I know the majority of people who teach Collegiate Shag in the United States and as far as I know, none of these individuals say this in their lessons. |
DJing for A Collegiate Shag EventApril 11, 2011It was a fun weekend which I intend to write a more in depth post about later, but for now I wanted to write about a problem I seriously had to deal with with preparing for this event. How do I DJ for a Collegiate Shag event? |
Jeremy Otth & Laura Keat Frim Fram Performance (2010) Many…November 19, 2010Many thanks to Will for getting this video up on YouTube. This is one of the best performances I’ve ever seen at Fram. I’ve been taking lessons from Jeremy & Laura this whole month. Sunday is the last workshop I have with them, which is about 3 or 4 hours of Lindy hop goodness. |
2007 Shag Performance Class, Frim Fram Jam by Mike Jagger and…October 31, 2010Happy Halloween everyone! I should’ve posted this earlier today, but this is one of my favorite performances at Fram ever. Enjoy! |
But All The Cats Like To ShagOctober 05, 2010Collegiate Shag is a dance that I am more than happy to dance. However the issue I have when I am living in the East Coast, is finding someone to dance it with. Often I will find people all over the East Coast that say the line, “Well it looks fun and I would love to learn Shag, but I have no one to teach it in my area”. Well with the list of learning resources below, you are out of excuses! |
A Year of Clips #6: “Lady Be Good” (Collegiate Shag) and Artie Shaw’s Hatred of DancersAugust 03, 2010Hey gang, today’s clip is more or less a music video from the swing era, complete with a group of Collegiate Shag dancers. |
The Collegiate ShagMarch 26, 2009What is this dance all the kids are doing today called Collegiate Shag? where did it come from and what is it's history? The truth is the history is very spotty, very little documentation and to make things worse the term "Shag" has come to mean various things just like the term Jitterbug. |
