Welcome to Tiff's Student Page!
Chances are you found this page because you attended one of my classes and were looking for more ways to improve your dancing. Or perhaps you just happened to stumble upon it from the website. This page is dedicated to helping you improve your dancing. If you wish to see something added or explained that isn't here, please send me an email and I will work on adding it.
YouTube Channel
Missed a class but you don't want to fall behind? Want to review something we learned in class last week? See what I taught at the class you missed or any other class I taught since as far back as 2010! All of these videos are free to my students. Also please feel free to Subscribe to my channel so you can easily find it in the future!
http://www.youtube.com/user/Tiffyshea23?ob=5
Swing Era Jazz Dances
These are the classic Jazz routines coreographed by the greats like Franky Manning and Pepsi Bethel. I typically play the song for one of these dances each night. The Shim Sham is also taught every 2nd Sunday night of the month. After you learn the Shim Sham in class, I will typically play it during the band break so you can practice what you just learned. The Tranky Doo and Big Apple are typically taught on a Thursday night at 6pm in a month with 5 weeks since there is a lot of material to cover. I typically play the songs you can perform these to on Tuesday night.
| Shim Sham | Tranky Doo |
Big Apple, Part 3 |
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Big Apple, Part 4 |
Shim Sham Break Down
Tranky Doo Break Down
Big Apple Break Down
Basic Steps of the Swing Dances
| Basic Step for Leads | Basic Step for Follows |
| Lindy Hop Footwork for Leads | Lindy Hop Footwork for Follows |
| East Coast Swing footwork for Leads | East Coast Swing footwork for Follows |
| Lindy Hop Basic with partner | |
| East Coast Basic with partner | |
For Beginner Lindy Hop students, here are a few great songs for practicing!
Here are some of my favorite songs for practicing technique, new moves, and getting up to speed for Intermediate Lindy dancers. If a song is too fast for you to keep up, just keep trying it once or twice each time you practice. One day you'll be able to keep up... it's a great feeling when you can finally dance to faster music!
For Jitterbug students:
For Dancing faster, and simply more great, popular music:
Jazz Steps
Learning jazz steps will greatly enhance your social dancing. They bring you a larger styling and move vocabulary. You will also find all of these steps are done in one of the three Swing Era Jazz routines I linked above.
Kick Ball Change
Susie Q
Fall off the log
Truckin
Apple Jacks
Shorty George
Boogie Back
Boogie Drop
Inspiring Videos
These are some of my favorite videos I watch to inspire my dancing. It is a great way to see the different styles dancers incorporate in their own dancing to help you find your own style of dancing.
Bingo Cards
| Lindy Hop Bingo Cards | East Coast Swing Bingo Card |
| Card 1 | Card 1 |
| Card 2 | Card 2 |
| Card 3 | Card 3 |
| Card 4 | Card 4 |
| Card 5 | Card 5 |
| Card 6 | Card 6 |
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| Card 9 | |
| Card 10 |
