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We have a crap-ton of awesome news to relay to you about Hot Club. As many of you heard, we are switching locations, and taking over the Trotter Building on Geer street.
We are also switching nights to the much more workweek/school-week friendly night of Thursday. So here’s the basic rundown for the next Hot Club and then I’ll give you more details about our exciting changes.
What: Hot Club of Durham Swing Dance
When: Thursday, June 3 at 8pm-12am
Where: The Trotter Building (410 West Geer St, Durham NC 27701)
Cost: $7 (includes free beginner lesson)
For this very special Hot Club night, we are going to be having two special guest DJs (TBA, waiting for confirmation), and a super delicious DESSERT POTLUCK!
Bring a home-baked treat to share and get in for the reduced price of $5. Om-nom-nom
The Trotter Building:
We are super excited to be moving to the trotter building. It’s located in the Durham Central Park District, across for Manbitesdog Theater. This neighborhood is booming. It has the Farmer’s Market, the soon to open Fullsteam Brewery, and the soon to reopen Kings Sandwich Shop. Plus, it’s just a short stroll to the city center. The building itself is beautiful and spacious.
The floors are concrete, but don’t fret! We will be working hard to raise enough money to put a wood floor in the space and make it even better to dance in. Also, the floor is polished concrete on rafters. It’s slick enough and has enough give so that’s it’s a perfectly suitable surface to dance on.
So, come out and check out our new digs!
Beginner Lesson (Start’s at 8pm)
Partnered Charleston: This is the granddaddy of all swing dances and is a great, and easy way to get out on the dance floor having fun in no time. Joe Jackson will be teaching you how to party like it’s 1929! This lesson is free with admission to the dance.
DJ Dance (9pm-12an)
Feature DJ(s)- TBA
We are getting awesome DJs for you guys. We’ll let you know as soon as they are confirmed!
Questions?
info@hotclubofdurham.com
http://hotclubofdurham.com/
919-627-8678
This is the last Hot Club of the year and we have a couple of very special guests coming in for the holidays. We are excited to have Tonia “the Knife” Davis and Naomi “the soup spoon” Boswell.
Hot Club of Durham
Tuesday 12/22/2009
ERUUF (Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship)
4907 Garret Rd
Durham, NC 27707
Free Beginner Lesson- Charleston at 7pm
Get on the floor fast with this high energy dance from the roaring 20’s. We at Hot Club find that this dance is the easiest and most fun to start with. We are happy to welcome Naomi Boswell back to North Carolina to help us teach this class! Naomi is an experienced dancer who’s been living in the swing dance mecca, Seattle since she left here. She’ll be teaching with Joe Jackson.
DJs- Start at 8pm
Tonia “the Knife” Davis is back again as our feature DJ. As you may or may not know, there is a recently discovered Louis Armstrong song about her. She’s awesome enough that Louis Armstrong saw 60 years into the future and wrote a song about her, so you really don’t want to miss her set. Missing Tonia’s sets has been shown to cause cancer in lab rats.
Nicole “the dizzle” Dienert is our house DJ this week. As usual she is not to be missed. You all know how much she dislikes it when you miss her sets. You don’t want to upset Nicole, believe me.
info@hotclubofdurham.com
http://hotclubofdurham.com
919-627-8678
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You will eat lots of desserts.
You will eat lots of desserts.
It’s Iron Chef: Hot Club time!
This week, 5 dessert-creating competitors battle for your vote of favorite dish. What’s at stake? A $20 gift certificate to Hot Club! Our bakers for the first Iron Chef: Hot Club are:
- Justin Pascual
- Theophan Thomas
- Jo Anna Wiersma
- Rick Collier
- Rachel Redler
Who will win? Only you can decide. Oh yeah, we’re also hosting a dance.
Tuesday 11/24
Hot Club of Durham Swing Dance (Directions)
7pm: Beginner Lesson: Shim Sham!
8-11pm: Dancing!
Shim Sham–Last week (and the week before, and possibly the week before that), you may have noticed us dancing solo choreography every time a certain song comes on (or sometimes even a random song). If you think we look silly, and you want to join us next time this happens, come at 7pm for the lesson, and we’ll teach you. Here’s some folks dancing the Shim Sham for Frankie Manning on Youtube. (The largest Shim Sham was danced by over 1000 people in May at Frankie’s 95th Birthday Festival!)
Deejays–Ken Hanson will be our featured DJ & Joe Jackson will start us off and close the night as our house DJ.
http://hotclubofdurham.com
info@hotclubofdurham.com
919-627-8678
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Hot Club will be back to its old self this week after a very successful blues themed week! Thank you to everyone who came to the lesson and stayed all night. We had a great mix of Blues, Slow Jazz, Lindy, and Bal music thanks to Kristy!
Attention!!!
Hot Club will be starting 30 minutes later this week. Beginner lesson starts at 7:30 and the dance starts at 8:30. We will also be playing music later, with music going until 11:30. Plan on staying out later, it will be worth it!
MORE Attention!!!!!
We only need one more person to sign up for “Iron Chef – Hot Club” for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to Hot Club dances and classes. We will be announcing the secret ingredient at Hot Club this week, so our contestants will want to be there for the announcement and get a leg up on the competition.
The best part is that everyone who comes in two weeks will have the pleasure of eating their concoctions. So come out this week and find out what you will be eating on the 24th.
Back to your regularly scheduled dance announcement…
Hot Club of Durham Swing Dance
ERRUF Care Building
4907 Garrett Rd
Durham, NC 27707
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It’s time for a very special edition of Hot Club of Durham. We’re doing Blues! We know that you guys have been missing Blues while Dance Blues Friday is on hiatus, and we want to keep you guys in practice. Expect a unique experience with some surprises, and a whole mess of fun.
Don’t worry there’ll still be plenty of swing and vintage music too, just think of it as Hot Club with an awesome bluesy twist.
Location
ERUUF (Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship)
4907 Garrett Rd
Durham, NC 27707
Price
$7 (lesson included)
Beginner Lesson (Starts at 7pm)-
20s Style Blues – We have our own take on blues dance based on a Lindy Hop connection foundation. We feel that it’s a great way to get started dancing to slower music, and that it compliments any other blues or swing dance style that you may have learned. This class will be geared toward beginners but many, more experienced, dancers will learn something new here. This class will be taught by Hot Club’s own Joe Jackson and Rebecca Brightly.
Our Lovely Deejays (music goes from 8-11ish)-
Kristy Miliken – Our feature DJ for the night asked for this gig specifically. She’s an experienced Blues and Swing DJ and she’s so good that she’s made grown men weep with joy (don’t ask how I know… I just got something in my eye… it’s nothing). We promise that you will love her just as much as we do.
Nicole Deinert – Our house DJ Nicole is also an experienced Blues and Swing DJ. She’s relatively new to the circuit, but she’s gone from zero to freakin’ awesome in the blink of an eye. She’ll keep you on the floor and saying, “I’ve never danced to a song like that before, but I like it!”
We might do this again in December if we get a good turnout and excitement level. So, come out, have fun, and get the Blues, Hot Club Style!
http://hotclubofdurham.com
info@hotclubofdurham.com
919-627-8678
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It’s about time for our second weekly Hot Club swing dance! Last week we named our own Chris Wells and Laura Windley the “Fastest Feet in the Triangle.” Who will challenge the champs? You’d better get to Hot Club and start practicing.
This week we will be giving away two $50 gift certificates to Lindy Focus! Come before 9 to get your name in the drawing! Entry into the drawing is free, and the pool will be small, so you have a really good chance to win.
More about Lindy Focus
http://lindyfocus.com
What: Hot Club of Durham Swing Dance
When: Tuesday, November 3
7pm- 11pm
Where: Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (ERUUF)
4709 Garrett Rd
Durham, NC
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It’s time for a very special hot club that we like to call:
The Penultimate Hot Club Lindy Hop Throwdown!
PuHCLHT for short.
Before I get into anything else I have one big, huge, gigantic, enormous announcement:
Hot Club is going weekly!
Yes, you read that right. From now on your Tuesday nights are belong to us. So tell all your friends that you can’t hang out with them on Tuesdays anymore unless they come to the dance with you.
We are all gearing up for this year’s EBC and this is the perfect chance to get some practice. We will likely have some new faces from out of town, so we are going to be throwing one of the most exciting Hot Club dances ever! We are going to have a “Fastest Feet” competition, and two brand new DJs. You can’t miss it. No, really, attendance is mandatory and will be strictly enforced by aircraft. So, we’d better see you there.
Penultimate Location– Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Penultimate Street address – 4907 Garrett Rd, Durham NC
Our Throwdown Beginner lesson-
Balboa- Taught by “Crazy Legs” Cliff Dyer, this Balboa lesson is you last chance to learn the basics and/or get a refresher before EBC.
Our Throwdown DJ Line-up (Music starts at 8)-
Chris Wells- Chris is also know as the mad scientist of swing dance. He’s been meticulously studying swing dance and music in Sweden and the UNC musicology department. He’s spent years of his life and gone deeply into debt, all to bring you the perfect DJ set this Tuesday. Come see what the mad scientist has concocted for his first Hot Club appearance. Muah-ha-ha-ha.
Rebecca Brightly- This young upstart is dedicated to doing things right the first time. To that end, she’s been slowly building her music collection. If you wondered why you haven’t yet seen her bathed in the glow of a laptop screen at a dance yet, you will find out on Tuesday. When Rebecca throws down, you stay down!
“Toeless” Joe Jackson- Will be house DJ for the night.
http://hotclubofdurham.com
info@durhamswingdance.org
919-627-8678
Believe or not, we blues dance too! Hot Club of Durham instructors Rebecca Brightly and Joe Jackson will be showing their stuff at this Saturday’s, October 24th, Night of the Living Djs. Our demo will be at 11:15. Register now, this thing gets packed.
Joe and Rebecca are often found wondering why their friends talk about blues as though it’s a different dance than Lindy Hop. To them good Blues is, or should be, based on the solid connection and body movement of swing dance. To paraphrase Dawn Hampton, I don’t know why people call this blues dance, it’s just slow dance!
So come out and see our interpretation of this popular dance style. We think you will see and hear something new.
What does blues dance mean to you?
Would you like to see a blues themed night at Hot Club while Dance Blues Friday is on hiatus?
Please comment below, we want to hear from you.
Because we’re stronger together than we are apart, Must Dance Swing will be under the wing of the Hot Club of Durham starting in November. You may have seen our new oversized postcards with numerous pictures of Hot Club & MDS events in the community. With this merger, we endeavor to create and support a stronger, more vibrant community of swing dancers in Durham and surrounding areas. The values of each organization are mirrored in the other, namely:
- A commitment to the social well-being of the individual and extended group of dancers (this means fun),
- Support for continuing study of dancing and opportunities for performance (this means passion),
- Encouraging dancers to travel outside their comfort zone–literally–by attending regional and national swing dance events (this means challenge and connection to the larger community).
Hot Club of Durham, now with classes AND dances!
What will change? Information on the Must Dance Swing website will be moved to the Hot Club website. Soon you’ll be able to register and pay online for your classes. If you pay by check, you’ll make it out to “Durham Swing Dance LLC” instead of Rebecca Brightly.
What will stay the same? Same awesome teachers, same sweet classes, same studio location.
What’s next? A LOT of changes are in store for Hot Club. You’ll want to stay tuned in very closely to see what we do next
Who is MDS? Rebecca Brightly has been the sole owner of Must Dance Swing for nearly two years, and has enlisted the help of both Cliff Dyer and Joe Jackson as co-teachers during that time.
Who is Hot Club? Rebecca, Joe, and Nicole Deinert are the owners of Durham Swing Dance, LLC, which runs Hot Club events. Cliff also participates strongly, especially in web affairs.
Okay, I don’t have much funny in me today so this is going to be straight forward.
Friday Night Venue/Saturday and Sunday Classes: Triangle Dance Studio
Triangle Dance Studio is located in RTP on Miami Blvd. We are taking over Blues Dance Friday and for accessibility we will be holding this dance in the downstairs studio. We will have signs out, pointing you to the right place.
Directions
From Chapel Hill/Carrboro: Take I-40 East towards Durham. Take Exit #281, Miami Blvd. Turn right on Miami and go about 3 miles. Cross the large intersection at Alexander, then cross the next light at Lumley. 2603 is the 3rd house on the right. There is a small grayish house with a 2-story bldg and a large gravel lot in back. Simply pull into the drive and park behind the house. Use the entrance at the bottom of the 2-story bldg .
From Durham: Take the Durham Freeway (147) South towards I-40. Take Exit # , Alexander Dr. Turn Left on Alexander and go to the 3rd light. Turn Left onto Miami Blvd. Cross the next light at Lumley. 2603 is the 3rd house on the right. There is a small grayish house with a 2-story bldg and a large gravel lot in back. Simply pull into the drive and park behind the house. Use the entrance at the bottom of the 2-story bldg .
From Raleigh: Take I-40 West towards Durham. Take Exit #281, Miami Blvd. Turn right on Miami and go about 3 miles. Cross the large intersection at Alexander, then cross the next light at Lumley. 2603 is the 3rd house on the right. There is a small grayish house with a 2-story bldg and a large gravel lot in back. Simply pull into the drive and park behind the house. Use the entrance at the bottom of the 2-story bldg .
Saturday Night Venue: Infuzion
Infuzion is a new venue for us. They are located on Westgate Dr. across from the Target.
Directions
From Chapel Hill: Take 15-501 toward Durham. Take a right onto Westgate Dr. before the Target. Take a right into the shopping center across from Target. There is a Toy’s R Us and an El Rodeo in the shopping center. Infuzion is on the far left of the shopping center.
From Durham: Take 15-501 toward Chapel Hill. Take a left onto Westgate Dr. after the Target. Take a right into the shopping center across from Target. There is a Toy’s R Us and an El Rodeo in the shopping center. Infuzion is on the far left of the shopping center.
From Raleigh: Take I-40 towards Durham. Take exit 270 for 15-501. Take a right onto15-501 east toward Durham. Take a right onto Westgate Dr. before the Target. Take a right into the shopping center across from Target. There is a Toy’s R Us and an El Rodeo in the shopping center. Infuzion is on the far left of the shopping center.
Super Secret Saturday Late Night Location: Cliff’s House
Directions to the Late night party/dance will be available at the registration table on Friday and Saturday. We hope to see you there.
For more information: http://Durhamswingdance.org info@durhamswingdance.org (919) 627-8678
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