The Swing Book (37 page)
Authors: Degen Pener
Events in the Saskatoon area
Toronto
The Palais Royale Ballroom
1601 Lake Shore Boulevard West
416-532-6210
Call for details
Reservoir Lounge
52 Wellington Street East
416-955-0887
Dinner, dancing, and live music Tuesday through Saturday
Peter Renzland
416-323-1300
Martin Nantel and Jane Jedlovsky
http://www.jedor.com/aristocats.html
416-208-3279
Lisa Jacobs
http://www.interlog.com/~swing
416-693-0125
http://dancing.org/toronto.swing.html
The city’s guide to upcoming events and local teachers
Homepage of the Toronto Swing Dance Society
Vancouver
The guide to dancing and bands in British Columbia
FRANCE
Paris
Guide, in English and French, to
le jive à Paris
http://perso.cybercable.fr/bosset/
More swing,
en Français
GERMANY
Munich
Guide to events in Munich
JAPAN
Tokyo
Homepage of the Tokyo Swing Dance Society
NETHERLANDS
Jive dance in the Netherlands
NEW ZEALAND
http://members.tripod.com/~jitterbugs
Events and classes in and around Auckland
SINGAPORE
Champion dancer Sing Lim’s “Jitterbugs Singapore” site
SWEDEN
www.swedish-swing-society.a.se/
Homepage of the Swedish Swing Society (established in 1978)
SWITZERLAND
The Swiss Swing Dance Society’s site includes an international events listing
UNITED KINGDOM
London Area
Hellzapoppin’ Club
Cecil Sharp House
2 Regent’s Park Road
Camden
0171-485-2206
Once a month on Saturday, 8:00
P.M.
to midnight, DJ
Notre Dame Hall
6 Leicester Place
0171-734-4019
Jitterbug on Wednesdays, 7:30 to 11:30
P.M.
; DJ and occasional live music
Saturday Night Fish Fry Windeyer Hall
46 Cleveland Street, near Telecom Tower
0171-359-2800 (LeJive hotline)
Swing dances, sponsored by LeJive, the second Saturday each month; “Zoot Suit Riot” lessons and dancing every Tuesday
Stompin’ at the 100 Club
100 Oxford Street
0171-636-0933
Live music and DJ on Mondays, run by the London Swing Dance Society
DANCE CLASSES
Robert Austin and Claire Hilliard
0171-359-2800
Jane Eliot and Martin Ellis
0171-357-6891
Ryan Francois and Jenny Thomas
0181-761-0843
Julie Oram
0181-809-5507
Great Lindy Hop Web site covering classes, DJs, bands, and fashions
“Modern jive” Web site for Jitterbugs, London’s Swing and Lindy Hop Club. Site includes
Swing Time
on-line magazine and complete listing of all swing events in London
Web site for Lejive’s many events throughout the United Kingdom
Swing rules on the Web. For the easiest entrée to the retro Internet world, just go to the Swing, Swing, Swing (In a Ring)
Web site,
www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=daddyo&list
,
which lists more than 240 swing sites. Here are some of the most popular individual pages for music, dance, fashion, news,
and more.
Any Swing Goes:
Swing lover Doug LeClair manages this site, which includes articles, an interesting news library, album reviews, and MP3
files.
eSwing:
Calendar of California swing events.
http://home.earthlink.net/~margiekate/swingspots.html
Southern California Lindy Society:
Margie Cormier’s extensive information page includes band contact information, clothing resources, events in Southern California,
fashion history, and more.
Lindy Week Review:
Frank Morra and Carole Berghers’s Washington D.C.-based guide to the city’s swing scene, also reports on the Midwest and
features extensive links and information on vintage shopping nationwide.
neoSwing:
Information on bands, style, and CDs, plus chat listings.
The Los Angeles Swing Times:
Karen Wilson’s guide to the nightlife of Los Angeles, plus record reviews, links to swing radio shows, and hairdo tips.
Pennsylvania 6-5000:
An extensive international database, with listings of bands, vintage clothing sources, nightclubs, DJ top ten lists, and
Swank Daddy,
an on-line swing magazine.
Retro: The Magazine of Classic Twentieth-Century Popular Culture:
An on-line lifestyle magazine.
Swing Set:
A very comprehensive on-line guide for events in California, New York, Las Vegas, and Chicago. Search for events by club
or band; look at band links and the swinguistics guide.
www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/aswin/SwingDancing/Swing_Dancing.html
The U.S. Swing Dance Server:
This site features everything from articles on swing dancing to information on styles of dancing, how to do steps, and dance
societies nationwide.