Where i've taught

2024 | BluesAlive (Seoul), Steel City Blues, Montreal Bagel & Blues, The Blues Experiment, Blues Muse, Emerald City Blues Festival

2023 | Flying Home, Salt Lake City workshop, Denver workshop, Blues Muse, Lindy Focus

2020-2022 | Before quarantine: Brickyard Blues, Backwater Blues, Austin Blues Party, SnowMELT Blues (Champagne-Urbana);
Virtual during quarantine: Blues Muse, BluesGeek, Beijing Blues Bash
In person after quarantine: Diversion (Denver), Blues Muse, The Blues Experiment

2019 | Brickyard Blues, Backwater Blues, Doubleshot (Valencia), Austin Blues Party, Steel City Blues, bluesSHOUT, The Blues Experiment, Blues Geek, Blues Bump, Mile High Blues, Sweet Molasses Blues, Express Track Blues, Blues Muse, Blues Baby Blues (London)

2018 | BluesGeek, Orlando workshop, Austin Blues Party, Steel City Blues, bluesSHOUT, The Blues Experiment, Montreal Bagel & Blues, Spoonful (Edinburgh), Sweet Molasses Blues, Philadelphia workshop, East Side Kings Festival (Austin), Korea Blues Camp, Blues Muse, Snowbound Blues

2017 | City in Motion, My Lindy Craze, Raleigh-Durham workshop, Mo Better Blues, Austin Blues Party, Steel City Blues, bluesSHOUT, The Blues Experiment, Mile High Blues, MezzJelly Blues, Sweet Molasses Blues, Mean Old Blues, Denver workshop, Blues Baby Blues (London), Snowbound Blues, Lindy Focus

2016 | Winter Blues, Steel City Blues, Pirate Swing, Austin Blues Party, Boston Blend, Montreal Bagel & Blues, The Blues Experiment, BluesQuake, Blues Battle, Mile High Blues, Spoonful (Edinburgh, Scotland), Nocturne Blues, Sweet Molasses Blues, Philadelphia Workshop, Blues Yourself, Lonestar Strut, Mean Old Blues, Blues Muse, Minneapolis workshop, Snowbound Blues

2015 | Winter Blues, Rain City Blues, Steel City Blues, Austin Blues Party, The Blues Experiment, Blues Quake, Blues in Toulouse (France), Blues Battle, Mile High Blues, Nocturne Blues, Philadelphia workshops, Hart & Soul (soul in Hartford), Korea Blues Camp, Blues Muse, Tim & Julie LA Blues workshops

2014 | St. Louis Obispo workshop, Oberlin Swing & Blues Festival, Austin Blues Party, ESpanish Blues Festival, The Blues Experiment, bluesSHOUT, Mile High Blues, Basement Blues, Hart & Soul (soul in Hartford), Bambloozled, Blues Baby Blues (London), Korea Blues Camp, Blues Muse

2013 | Winter Blues Intensive, Swing Into Spring, Steel City Blues, Mile High Blues, Baltimore Blues Summit, bluesSHOUT, Blossom Blues (Zurich, Switzerland), Hamburg workshops, Summertime (Columbia, SC), Sweet Molasses Blues, Nocturne Blues, Blues Muse, Blues Baby Blues (London), Denver workshop, Snowbound Blues, Lindy Focus

2012 | Baltimore Blues Summit, bluesSHOUT, Bambloozled, Rose City Blues, Blues Baby Blues

2011 | Austin Blues Party, Sweet Molasses BluesSHOUT, Baltimore Blues Summit, Bambloozled

2010 | Down Home Blues

2006-present | Local beginner & intermediate series & drop-in classes every 1-4 months

Competitions

2023

  • Finals as a leader & follower + Most Musical leader – Northstar blues social competition

2019

  • 1st place – bluesSHOUT! All Star Strictly – with Dan Legenthal
  • judged the rest of the year / not eligible to compete

2018

  • 1st place – Mile High Blues Open Blues Idiom Solo Riffin’
  • 2nd place – bluesSHOUT! All Star Strictly – with Tim O’Neill
  • so far ineligible to compete in other competitions

2017

  • 1st place – Blues Muse Follower Invitational
  • 1st place – North Star Blues Invitational Cuttin’
  • 1st place – bluesSHOUT! All Star Jack & Jill – with Dan Repsch
  • 1st place – Mo’ Better Blues All Star Jack & Jill – with Dan Legenthal
  • 2nd place – Mile High Blues All Star Lead’n’Follow – with Amos Rose

2016

  • 1st place – Mile High Blues All Star Follow’n’Lead – with Joe Demers
  • 2nd place – bluesSHOUT! All Star Jack & Jill – with Dan Legenthal
  • 2nd place – Winter Blues Invitational Jack & Jill – with Philippe Wilson
  • 2nd place – Snowbound Blues All Star Strictly – with Tim O’Neill
  • 3rd place – bluesSHOUT! All Star Strictly – with Shawn Hershey

2015

  • 1st place – Snowbound Blues Solo Competition
  • 1st place – Nocturne Blues Challenge Strictly – with Shawn Hershey
  • 1st place – Nocturne Blues Open Jack & Jill – with Dan Legenthal
  • 1st place – Winter Blues Invitational Jack & Jill – with Aaron Brown
  • 2nd place – bluesSHOUT! All Star Strictly – with Tim O’Neill
  • 3rd place – bluesSHOUT! All Star Jack & Jill – with Tim O’Neill
  • 3rd place – Snowbound Blues All Star Jack & Jill – with Nick DeWitt

2014

  • 1st place – bluesSHOUT! All Star Jack & Jill – with Forrest Rogers-Marcovitz
  • 1st place – Mile High Blues Strictly – with Tim O’Neill
  • 1st place – Steel City Blues Festival Jack & Jill – with Dan Legenthal
  • 1st place – Steel City Blues Festival Riffin – solo
  • 1st place – Enter the Blues Strictly – with Andrew Smith
  • 1st place – Enter the Blues Choreography Competition – solo
  • 2nd place – Nocturne Blues Invitational Strictly – with Joe DeMers
  • 2nd place – Enter the Blues Invitational Jack & Jill – with Andrew Smith
  • 2nd place – bluesSHOUT! All Star Strictly – with Tim O’Neill

2013

  • 1st place – Bambloolzed Invitational Jack & Jill – with Alfredo Melendez
  • 1st place – Bambloolzed Showcase – with Lewi Gilamichael
  • 1st place – Enter the Blues Choreography Competition – solo
  • 1st place – Enter the Blues Solo Competition – solo
  • 2nd place – Nocturne Blues International Blues Dance Championships Strictly – with Dan Legenthal

2012

  • 1st place – Enter the Blues Choreography Competition – solo
  • 1st place – Enter the Blues Strictly – with Topher Howard
  • 1st place – Mile High Blues Strictly –  with Tim O’Neill
  • 1st place – Mile High Blues Jack & Jill – with Dexter Santos

2011

  • 1st place – Emerald City Blues Festival Strcitly – with Tim O’Neill
  • 1st place – Emerald City Blues Festival Solo Cuttin – solo
  • 1st place – Bambloozled Solo Riffin – solo
  • 2nd place – Mile High Blues Strictly – with Tim O’Neill
  • 3rd place – Emerald City Blues Festival Jack & Jill – with Kevin Van Meter

2010

  • 1st place – Bambloozled Showcase – with Amanda Gruhl
  • 1st place – Mile High Blues Jack & Jill – with Kevin Nguyen
  • 2nd place – bluesSHOUT! Ballroomin Strictly – with Tim O’Neill
  • 2nd place – Bambloozled Jack & Jill – with Clyde Wright
  • 2nd place – Emerald City Blues Festival Jack & Jill – with Shawn Hershey
  • 2nd place – Emerald City Blues Festival Strictly – with Tim O’Neill
  • 3rd place – bluesSHOUT! Champions Jack & Jill – with Tim O’Neill
  • 3rd place – bluesSHOUT! Jukin Strictly – with Andrew Smith

2009

  • 1st place – bluesSHOUT! Juke Joint Strictly – with Topher Howard
  • 2nd place – Enter the Blues Jack & Jill – with J Wardell
  • 2nd place – Enter the Blues Solo – solo
  • 2nd place – Blues Blaze Champions Strictly – with Tim O’Neill
  • 2nd place – Blues Blaze Champions Jack & Jill – with Chris Mayer

Videos

Playlist of more videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL44EC34115EB1E388

lineage

Many people have shaped and influenced my dancing throughout the years. For blues dances and overall Black social dance/Jazz continuum, my knowledge comes from:

  • Damon Stone
  • Bits and pieces from: Bobby Green, Heidi Fite, Cicero Ryland, Jr., Chester Whitmore, Barry Douglas
  • Film / interviews with: Sugar Sullivan, Sandra Gibson, Al Minns, James Berry, Norma Miller, Chester Whitmore, Bessie Smith & Jimmy Mordecai, as well as many uncredited dancers that should have been credited
  • Writings / lectures by: Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Jacqui Malone, Katrina Hazard Donald (neé Katrina Hazard Gordon), Jasmine Johnson, Thomas DeFrantz, Latasha Barnes, Moncell Durden

I would like to thank every one of them for sharing what they shared.