What Greg & Laurie offer in their classes is clear and encouraging instruction, a fun sense of musicality -and wicked sense of humor. With a unique background ranging from early classes with Frankie Manning to teaching alongside current West Coast and Lindy champions, they use and teach historically and technically relevant material that is not solely based on "a style" or vocabulary. They have students who have evolved into excellent dancers of many different styles.
Greg & Laurie teach at dance camps and workshop weekends across the country as well as locally near their home of Philadelphia, PA.
In addition, Greg is a popular DJ, having spun music for dancers at exchanges, competitions, and other events across the USA, in Canada and Europe. Greg has also been the DJ Coordinator for the American Lindy Hop Championships. His style mixes classic swing with very groovy blues and other sweet & funky stuff.
If you are looking for music, check out my 'Music Recommendations' page to the left.
Greg and Laurie have been invited to either teach or DJ at an impressive number of venues:
CAMPS / EVENTS / COMPETITIONS:
Frankie '95 (NYC)
American Lindy Hop Championships*
(Greg was also the ALHC DJ coordinator in 2003) (CT)
Count Basie Centennial (NYC)
Swing Out New Hampshire* (NH)
Summer Hummer* (CT)
Mystic blues* (CT)
Beantown* (MA)
New Year's Eve Extravaganza* (MA)
Boston Tea Party* (MA)
North Atlantic Dance Championships* (NJ)
Harlem Jazz Festival Battle of the DJs (NYC)
Mid-Summer's Night Swing at Lincoln Center (NYC)
Frankie Manning's birthday bash* (NYC)
BABBLE* (NYC)
Gargleblaster Blues PBLL (PA)
Cheap Thrills (Mo)
Emerald City Blues Festival (WA)
Philly Blues Connection (PA)
Montreal International Swing Dance Festival (Canada)
Swinger's ball (IL)
Yehoodi Anniversaries* (NYC)
Swing Fling* (DC)
Virginia State Open (VA)
Red, Hot and Blues (TX)
Heritage Dance Festival* (PA)
Summer Swing Jam (GA)
Oakland Swing Dance Festival (CA)
Jitterbug Jam (CA)
Built for Blues (CA)
Augusta Swing Week* (VA)
Omega Swing week* (NY)
Crossings Swing week* (TX)
Great South West Lindy Fest (TX)
*Multiple times
EXCHANGES:
Ithaca* (NY)
Denver* (CO)
East/West DJ summit in Portland (OR)
Portland Fusion Exchange (OR)
Albany* (NY)
Purdue (IL)
Connecticut* (CT)
Dirt Cheap Blues (VA)
Eat&KissMe/Ann Arbor* (MI)
Santa Barbara (CA)
Sacramento (CA)
Chicago* (IL)
Austin* (TX)
Houston (TX)
Philadelphia* (PA)
New York* (NY)
Soflex (FL)
Montreal* (Canada)
Toronto (Canada)
CBus/Columbus (OH)
*Multiple times
OUT OF STATE DANCES:
Lindy Groove* (CA)
Oakland Sunday dance (CA)
Dog House (CA)
920 Special (CA)
Friday Night Blues (CA)
K-2* (DC)
Glen Echo (DC)
Purdue Swing Club (IL)
Willowbrook (IL)
Frim Fram Jam* (NYC)
Jook Joint Shimmy* (NYC)
Penthouse (NYC)
Lindy in the Park (NYC)
Dance Manhattan* (NYC)
Jellyroll* (NYC)
Jump Session (NYC)
Hop, Swing & Jump (NYC)
NYSDS (NYC)
Swing 46* (NYC)
NYC Blues* (NYC)
Swing Hut (NYC)
Ithaca* (NY)
Huntingdon* (NY)
Porter's (KY)
CSDS (CT)
Cat's Corner* (Montreal, Canada)
McGill* (Montreal, Canada)
Swing D'ete (Montreal, Canada)
TSDS (Toronto, Canada)
Church of dance (Ottawa, Canada)
Boise Swing Club (ID)
The Fed* (TX)
Black Swan (TX)
Melody Club* (TX)
TCNJ Swing Club* (NJ)
NJSwings* (NJ)
Jersey Jumpers* (NJ)
No Name Dance Club* (NJ)
Spy (OH)
London, England
*multiple times
WORKSHOPS:
Greg and Laurie have taught workshops across the country, in Canada and at Lindy camps like Swing Out New Hampshire and Beantown. They are popular for specializing in teaching musicality and syncopations, lead & follow technique across style boundaries, "Lindy for West Coast Swing dancers" and "WCS for Lindy Hoppers". They enjoy teaching Swing dancing to skilled dancers as well as total new comers.
CLASSES:
Greg and Laurie also keep busy locally teaching at 3 locations in and around their home town of Philadelphia where they also coach the 30-member dance troupe "The West Philly Swingers".
Greg & Laurie started philly's blues scene by hosting Philadelphia's Kaffa Cafe Blues dances.
Greg is a house DJ at Philadelphia's most popular weekly dance: Lindy and Blues (LaB).
Call or E-mail for our current schedule.
SOCIAL FUNCTIONS:
Greg and Laurie have worked with many corporate events and galas (nothing like getting 400 lawyers in tuxes to dance!!), team builders, meeting planners, Philadelphia's mayor, wedding parties, commercial promotions (eg. Kellogs cereal), etc.
Please contact Greg for band bookings, performance dancers, DJs, workshops, teachers, etc.
