Singapore Sea Jam

Most of you probably have heard about Sea Jam.
But what is Sea Jam actually?
Well, it is a dancing camp in Singapore/Sentosa, where you can attend 6 dance lessons a day and join the party afterwards. It is also the biggest Swing Workshop Event in Asia.

This year we´ve got teachers from Sweden: Hanna and Mattias, from France: Bruno and Vero, and the Father of Swing: Frankie Manning.
Hanna and Mattias dance in a very crazy-fun way. Bruno and Vero tought us The French Connection, which looks gental, smooth and elegant.
And our 95-year-old Frankie showed us the most important thing of Swing: its Spirit. He talked a lot about how to get the Swing motion into your body, understanding of Jazz music, passion, love and joy of dancing.
After meeting Frankine personally, we finally know why and what we are doing for Taipei Swing.
It is because we are having so much fun while we dance and we want to show you guys that you can enjoy music by moving your body, too. Play your body as an instrument, you´ve got Swing in you!

However, we met some Swing Dancers from other countries, too. From Korea, Japan, Australia, Beijing, ShangHai, Hong Kong, Vietnam...
It was indeed a international event. So maybe you are interested in coming to Sea Jam next year.
Keep dancing!
Claire & Maria


新加坡的Sea Jam是亞洲最大的ｓｗｉｎｇ活動。一個週末的時間，每天有超過六個小時的課程及晚上的舞會，讓愛舞的人跳個夠。
這個已經舉辦三年的ｓｗｉｎｇ大會，總是吸引許多國家的舞者前來，今年多了台北的Claire和Maria，我們竟然遇到來自台中的Dan和Tomoko，另外還有北京，上海，香港，西貢，首爾，東京，剩至還有澳洲的朋友到場，相互切磋。
除了聖陶沙的好天氣，師資方面是最吸引人的誘因，今年來了一對瑞典的老師Hanna&Mattias，他們舞風誇張，極富運動力。來自法國的Bruna&Vero則是舞風優雅細緻。但是這一次最最令人必來的原因是ｓｗｉｎｇ始主Frankie的出席，九十五歲的他顯然因為舞動而健康。在他的演講中，所有的人都聚精會神的盯著他，希望光是見到他本人就可以學到他舞藝一半。
演講中他時時散發著對ｓｗｉｎｇ的熱愛，也因為他投射出的ｓｗｉｎｇ精神，讓我們兩個了解自己在台灣推廣ｓｗｉｎｇ的意義何在；為了將ｓｗｉｎｇ正面又好玩的特質與台灣朋友分享，因為ｓｗｉｎｇ已經如此國際化，我們也希望國際化的台北，成為世界舞者紛紛文明而來照訪的地方。
無論如何，真的希望喜愛爵士音樂及文化的朋友，都能以分享的心態，將ｓｗｉｎｇ的歡樂帶給周圍的人！