Select Performances and Demonstrations
As a couple, we enjoy performing throughout the New York Metropolitan area and beyond. We also choreograph routines and lead ensemble performances. Check out some of our recent credits and upcoming performances we've got cookin'.
History Channel, Intrepid Museum VJ Day Commemoration
On August 14, we'll be performing as part of the Lindy Hop All-Stars in a World War II themed show with live orchestra on the deck of the USS Intrepid. The show is part of a whole series of events commemorating the 60th anniversary of V-J Day sponsored by the History Channel and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. The day's events will begin at 10:00am. All are welcome.
Dancing Our Roots - Sacred Dance Festival
On July 22, we will teach and perform the social dances from twentieth century America as part of the Sacred Dance Guild's Biannual Festival, which this year is dedicated to "dancing our roots". We will teach and perform the dances that brought together people from all walks of life to kick up, their heels and have fun, and were instrumental in breaking down social barriers of the times.
Ninth Avenue Food Festival (1999-2005)
Every year, Ninth Avenue kicks off the summer season with a street festival that brings out the best local restaurants and street vendors in Hell's Kitchen have to offer. Midori and I have performed Lindy Hop, Charleston, Peabody, Blues and Salsa routines on the festival's summer stage for many years now.
2004 New York City Marathon
As though fresh out of a timecapsule, we performed with the Blue Orchid Dance Orchestra on a stage at the finish line of the 2004 New York City Marathon. We played pep team to the Blue Orchids' role as pep band, dancing Charleston, Lindy Hop & a touch of Blues to help runners through the last mile.
2004 DanceWave Kids Cafe Festival
Each year Dancewave, Inc., an organization founded in 1979 to promote performing arts activities and education for New York City's young people, produces the Kids Cafe Festival, which combines outstanding arts performances with educational workshops for both children and adults. Hosted by renowned artists, the festival promotes the creation of works by and for children and includes many diverse styles of dance, music and theater. Recent festival hosts, for example, include HipHop artists Rennie Harris PureMovement, Afro-Brazilian dance and music ensemble OGANS, washboard and blues band, PorkChop, and Peter Pucci Plus Dancers performing Pucci: Sport. For the festival's 10th anniversary, this year, Dancewave invited us to host the event, which was dedicated to swing dance and music. We taught a series of workshops to Dancewave's wonderful children. We also choregraphed three new routines for the festival, January 24 and 25, that our group, dubbed the Sandra Cameron Swing Dancers, performed.
92nd Street Y Street Festival (2001-2004)
Every fall the 92nd Street Y blocks off Lexington Avenue from 79th to 94th Street one Sunday for its annual street festival so New Yorkers of all ages can enjoy fun activites and program demonstrations that showcase all that the Y has to offer. Midori and I performed Lindy Hop/Charleston & Peabody pieces at this September festival for several years now.
Museum of the City of New York: Dance in the Jazz Age Lecture/Demonstration
For the Roaring into the Twenties: The New New York Woman exhibit (March 22 - September 14, 2003), the museum hosted a lecture/demonstration of the dances of the 1920s. Elizabeth Zimmer, dance editor for the Village Voice, and dance historian Meital Waibsnaider of Dance Theater Workshop lectured on Martha Graham and the social dances of the time. Midori and I demonstrated the Peabody, '20s Charleston, and Lindy Hop as well as taught a lesson in the basics of the Charleston. The Martha Graham Dance Ensemble also performed pieces of Ms. Graham's choreography.
