by Sharon Davis | 19 Apr 2019
JazzMAD’s Sharon Davis has been helping with historical research for the Welcome to the Savoy project, run by a group of Lindy Hop lovers who happen to be creators in the cutting edge world of Virtual Reality. The team are attempting to build Harlem’s Savoy...
by Sharon Davis | 21 Dec 2018
JazzMAD’s Sharon Davis gets a vintage 1930s makeover for English Heritage’s historical makeup tutorial series, at London’s stunning Eltham Palace. See Sharon dancing around the glorious art deco palace, as she traces the footsteps of socialite Virginia Courtauld...
by Sharon Davis | 22 Oct 2018
Lindy Hop is a partnered swing dance that evolved from the Charleston in the late 1920s and flourished in the Swing Era of the 1930s and 40s. It spread from the ballrooms of Harlem, New York, across the United States and to the rest of the world. In Europe it was...
by Sharon Davis | 9 Sep 2018
Some photographs taken during The Wednesday Club classes throughout August and September 2018! The Wednesday Swing Club was an evening of drop-in swing dance classes held in the beautiful Stern Hall in Marble Arch, central London, that ended due to the Covid-19...
by Sharon Davis | 19 Oct 2017
Leading and Following in Lindy Hop are both fun roles with a different – but equally challenging – set of skills and different outlets for creativity. Typically students choose a role in their first class and stick with that role forever. But at JazzMAD we...