It was such an honor and a thrill to dance at the Seattle Dances! event benefitting The Plymouth Housing group. It was a joyous and festive evening and at the end of the night we raised over a million dollars to help the chronically homeless people of Seattle.
I was paired with the most wonderful professional dancer, Travis Whetman, and after hours of rigorous rehearsals, wardrobe consultations and adjustments, moments of frets and doubts, full body butterflies as well as many laughs and smiles our Balboa Swing performance came out swingingly {an adverb, chiefly British, meaning: very, extremely} well.
At the bottom of the post is the official video of our performance, we danced to “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that Swing” by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga. Travis choreographed a great routine!
To keep nerves at bay we ran through the dance a couple of more times, dodging trays of food that were storming out to feed the guests.
Thank you to all of my generous and devoted friends who took time out of their busy days to vote for me on~line with their donations to Plymouth Housing. I’m so grateful, as are the people who’s lives you will change forever.
A special thank you to all of you who came to the event to cheer us on, I truly appreciate all of your support!
I also want to thank Rolan Wong and Vivian Hsu of HRV media for all of the great images in this post.
Thank you to Plymouth Housing Group for all that you do and for allowing me to be a part of your efforts to build hope and transform lives by dancing at this extraordinary event, it was my pleasure.
Thank you to the extraordinary Hallie Kuperman for her spirit and devotion and all of her dancers from Century Ballroom, I loved swinging in your special world.
Thank you Jamie Von Stratton for making my dreamy dress, it was so very fun to dance in!!
Thank you to Rachel Hile and the crew from The Beyond Project for your special mission and vision and for making all of the dancers look their best.
To my partner Travis: Merci beaucoup, tu es très gentil. Et rappelez-vous, ça ne veut rien dire si ça n’a pas ce swing!
Swingingly,
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