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Online Partner Charleston Dance Lesson Video: Partner Charleston Basic (Side By Side)

Lesson Info

Charleston done in side-by-side, 1930's style, is not only a step, but a whole 'mode' around which thousands of variations and improvisations have been created. Its high-tempo compatibility and athletically jazzy style belie its relative ease. Most folks can start having a blast with this dance after just a few lessons.

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Genre: Partner Charleston

Instructors: Jaya Dorf, Michael Gamble

Level: 1

Duration: 7:52

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Jaya Dorf Asheville, NC, United States

Instructor Name	Jaya Dorf
Dance Styles:	Partner Charleston, Lindy Hop
Teaches with:	Michael Gamble, Bill Borgida
Available lessons:	21 Lessons, 11 Lesson Packs
Hailing From	Asheville, NC, United States
Instructor Contact	Email Jaya Dorf

Along with her husband Michael Gamble, Jaya has devoted herself to the growth of the Lindy Hop community. In addition to organizing Lindy Focus, Sugar Foot Stomp, Southern Belle Swing Bash and Enter the Blues, she has taught workshops in over 25 US cities, and has sought relentlessly to spread awareness of Lindy Hop and to cultivate its tradition and technique. She has helped to facilitate and judge a variety of contests of every style associated with the Lindy Hop world.

Michael Gamble Asheville, NC, United States

Instructor Name	Michael Gamble
Dance Styles:	Partner Charleston, Lindy Hop
Teaches with:	Jaya Dorf, Julee Mertz
Available lessons:	26 Lessons, 10 Lesson Packs
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Instructor Contact	Email Michael Gamble

Lindy Hop is my first love and I spend basically all of my time doing something related to it. I love to DJ and have had the privilege to do so at countless major events across the globe, mostly for Lindy Hop but a bit of Blues and Balboa, too. (No style ever had a monopoly on class and skill, and every sub-culture has it's awesomeness, don't doubt it!) I also teach, mostly around the USA with my lovely peach of a wife, together with whom we will have ventured to teach the good old skills of classic swing dance in over 30 US cities. Finally, my masochistic side likes to organize major dance events which seem to have a way of getting more major each year. Lindy Focus, our winter dance camp in Asheville, NC dominates much of our yearly work schedule, with Southern Belle Swing Bash (one of the world's first-ever follower-focused workshop weekends) keeping us busy in close second. Also, I am owner and designer for www.iDance.net.