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Blues Dance with Lucky Skillen, Blues Dance for Beginners
in Blues Dance with Lucky Skillen (1881 Productions), 48 mins
This beginning blues dance instructional video offers the viewer a quick and easy way to learn the basics of blues dance. This video gives an introduction to two of the more popular forms of blues dance: Jook joint style blues and Ballrooming. Jook joint style blues is a style of blues based off of the slow dances...
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in Blues Dance with Lucky Skillen (1881 Productions), 48 mins
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This beginning blues dance instructional video offers the viewer a quick and easy way to learn the basics of blues dance. This video gives an introduction to two of the more popular forms of blues dance: Jook joint style blues and Ballrooming. Jook joint style blues is a style of blues based off of the slow dances being done in Jook joints around America in the early 1900’s. Ballrooming Is the modern interpretation of the slow dancing done at t...
This beginning blues dance instructional video offers the viewer a quick and easy way to learn the basics of blues dance. This video gives an introduction to two of the more popular forms of blues dance: Jook joint style blues and Ballrooming. Jook joint style blues is a style of blues based off of the slow dances being done in Jook joints around America in the early 1900’s. Ballrooming Is the modern interpretation of the slow dancing done at the Savoy Ballroom in the 40's and 50's; traditionally it was danced with many turns, lifts, and dips. Today it has been developed into a very dynamic dance adding a new flavor of movement to the floor craft.Lucky Skillen has been dancing since 1996 and teaching since 1998. In that time he has taught and performed a wide variety of dances in Asia, Europe, and North America. He has also had the privilege of working with such people as Neil Young, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Katy Holms, and Frankie Manning. Lucky teaches a wide variety of classes. In these classes, he creates a fun and playful environment. He believes that play is learning and learning is fun. Lucky offers a unique insight into technique, connection, and the use of momentum due to the many forms of dance he has studied.Chris Morse started her swing dance obsession in Chicago back in 2000 where blues and slow groovy lindy had their home. With an infinite supply of live blues and jazz, fantastic friends and instructors, and an easy 4-hour drive to St. Louis, blues dancing became the obvious road to take. Now with thousands of hours of dance time and placements in national blues competitions under her belt, she now resides in Denver with her musician husband where she remains a social-dance favorite. She was thrilled to work with Lucky on this project, and hopes this inspires you to seek out your own style and passion for blues music and culture.(Side note for Rebecca - to my knowledge it may be the first Blues Dance Instructional Video made, but I could be wrong. I know several others have come out since this one.)
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Field of Study
Dance
Publisher
1881 Productions
Series
Blues Dance with Lucky Skillen
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Where We Danced, Where We Danced: The Story of American Social Dance
directed by Brian Lucky Skillen, fl. 2012, in Where We Danced (Arvada, CO: 1881 Productions, 2012), 57 mins
“Where We Danced” is the first in a three-part series that chronicles the evolution of American social dance. It tells the story of America’s dance through the lives of the dancers who shaped the art form as well as the places they danced.The story begins on the plantations where African and Western European...
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directed by Brian Lucky Skillen, fl. 2012, in Where We Danced (Arvada, CO: 1881 Productions, 2012), 57 mins
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“Where We Danced” is the first in a three-part series that chronicles the evolution of American social dance. It tells the story of America’s dance through the lives of the dancers who shaped the art form as well as the places they danced.The story begins on the plantations where African and Western European culture collided to create America’s first dance craze, the cakewalk. It continues through to 1930’s Harlem showing how dance has...
“Where We Danced” is the first in a three-part series that chronicles the evolution of American social dance. It tells the story of America’s dance through the lives of the dancers who shaped the art form as well as the places they danced.The story begins on the plantations where African and Western European culture collided to create America’s first dance craze, the cakewalk. It continues through to 1930’s Harlem showing how dance has helped to shape popular culture in America and around the world. Over the decades, dance has set trends in fashion and morality, giving the youth of the 20th century a voice to define itself from the rigidness of the Victorian era. It also gave African-Americans a means of expression when all others had been taken away.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Lowell Deo, fl. 1998
Author / Creator
Brian Lucky Skillen, fl. 2012
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
1881 Productions
Series
Where We Danced
Speaker / Narrator
Lowell Deo, fl. 1998
Person Discussed
Frankie Manning, 1914-2009, Dawn Hampton, 1928-2016, Sonny Allen, fl. 1992, Richard Powers, fl. 1975, Damon Stone, fl. 1995, Heidi Fite, fl. 1995
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Copyright © 2012 by 1881 Productions
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