Corinne Adams

Corinne Elysse Adams is a writer, lyricist, folk musician, composer, dancer, organizer, and teacher. She has been playing violin and Irish fiddle since she was a child, studies traditional Japanese folk music (minyou) on vocals and shamisen, sings and plays various other musical traditions, dances collegiate shag and lindy hop, and plays original compositions and American roots music with her husband Jonathan Doyle.

Jonathan Doyle

Saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger Jonathan Doyle lives in Port Townsend WA in the Pacific Northwest. Jonathan is committed to crafting original music as well studying the American musical traditions

He strives to organize and be a part of bands whose music is rooted, yet distinct. And to play for listeners and dancers anywhere they'll have him! Jonathan has had a career that has allowed him to perform professionally on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, at Preservation Hall, on Austin City Limits TV show, at Jazz At Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night’s Swing, in the famous Spiegeltent, at Chichen Itza, and major festivals such as Chicago Jazz Fest, Chicago Blues Fest, New Orleans Jazz Fest, French Quarter Festival in New Orleans, and many more.

Ryan Martin

Ryan Martin’s love of jazz music initially inspired him to start swing dancing in 1996.  Since that time, the music and dance of the swing era have become major preoccupations in his life.  He has been dancing and teaching various swing dances off-and-on for twenty plus years.  And in the last ten years he has expanded his involvement by studying the history of these dances.  Ryan has travelled around the U.S. collecting interviews with dancers from the original swing era, and he completed a feature-length documentary, called "The Rebirth of Shag", that focuses on one swing dance in particular, the Collegiate Shag.  He was one of the original co-founders of the Hot Rhythm Foundation, a non-profit organization that seeks to promote and sustain the jazz music and dance forms that originated in the early part of the twentieth century.  For eight years Ryan was involved with running that organization and its main event, Hot Rhythm Holiday.  Today Ryan travels to teach and compete in Collegiate Shag, both domestically and abroad. 

Jeron Tuell

Jeron has loved dancing shag ever since he had the chance to see it one night at his first-ever social dance. Ever since then he has done everything he can to learn as much as he can over the years he has been dancing. Outside of just learning to dance shag, he has always had a passion for teaching the dance as well as helping spread the love of shag wherever he is. As he spreads his love for shag, he also wants to make sure the shag community welcoming for everyone and allows others to have the space to show their love for shag.

Julie Roman

Julie Roman is a Phoenix-based artist. As a classically trained concert pianist/vocalist (with a career as a certified music educator and private vocal coach), she is passionate about pursuing excellence and spreading a love for the arts.  She enjoys collaborating with vintage swing dancers from around the world to compete, teach, choreograph, and perform. While she studies and competes in as many Jazz dances as she can, Julie is madly in love with Collegiate Shag (and flying aerials).  Julie is also the artistic director for and a founding member of the Phoenix Swing Project (an arts coop dedicated to growing and enriching the swing dance experiences available to people in Phoenix through collaborations and team training). The program is focused on creating contest teams, advocating for junior swing dance opportunities, and mentoring dancers who want to work toward specific goals within the swing dance community.  Julie enjoys working with people to find the parts of dance that inspire them most so they can find the spaces and skills that bring them joy. She also loves exploring the technical skills that give people mastery over their movement so they can embody the music in whatever ways they choose. 
 

Zach Lockett-Streiff

Zach’s first encounter with partner dancing was overhearing his dad’s attempt to sign him up for lessons as a child. He promptly screamed in terror, and the studio never called back. He joined his college swing club in 2010 – much to his dad’s bewilderment – and the rest went downhill from there!  Sporting a bit of a rebellious streak, Zach likes to question convention through a respectful but pragmatic lens. The historical record is deeply important to swing dancing, but equally important is not forgetting the foundational African-American dance values in the process. In this spirit, Zach values authenticity and actively-engaged partnership. And dad jokes.  Zach is one of the leaders of the Texas Shag scene (which is very near and dear to him). He is especially invested in helping the Austin Shag community grow, and refining his skills and self to meet the challenge. Teaching and social dancing are his passions, and he can’t wait to share both of them with you! *ahem* with y’all.

Haily Holt

Haily started dancing Collegiate Shag in 2017 in Portland, OR, and it was love at first step. She loves both leading and following Collegiate Shag, and enjoys experiencing the different styles and ideas brought to life in the dance. Haily loves how energetic yet graceful Collegiate Shag can be, and loves to teach others how to use their energy efficiently to make dancing shag sustainable and loads of fun!

Lauren Smith

Lauren Smith has been dancing throughout her life, and she started swing dancing in 2007, when a friend brought her to LA’s Lindy Groove. After that, she could be found dancing almost every night of the week, competing regularly, and teaching locally and around the world. 
As an instructor, Lauren has headlined events across Europe, Australia, and the United States. 
Lauren regularly competes as both a lead and a follow, and has won and placed in a number of dance competitions, including Hot Rhythm Holiday, Camp Hollywood, the Lone Star Championships, Inspiration Weekend, Le Hot Sauce, and many others. She is also a sought after competition judge. Lauren has been a DJ at several notable events, including The Snowball, Camp Jitterbug, Bal-Ast Off!, The Balboa Experiment, Balboa on the River, and Big Sky Weekend, and many other events around the world. 

Peter Flahiff

Peter Flahiff began swing dancing in 1993 and started teaching just one year later. He’s taught across the United States and around the world, including Herrang Dance Camp (Sweden,)  Lindy Focus (USA,) Camp Hollywood (USA,) California Balboa Classic (USA,) Balboa on the River (Australia,) and many others. Peter has been a featured DJ at The Snowball, The Experiment, California Balboa Classic, and Camp Hollywood, to name a few. Peter emceed the California Balboa Classic for many years and has emceed other major events around the world! He’s also a noted coach, lecturer, and competition judge.  Today, Peter counts some of the world’s top dancers and instructors as his own former students. Peter’s worldwide reputation is as a highly sought-after social dancer and instructor. He helped create several thriving venues over the years (Rusty’s Rhythm Club in Los Angeles, ATOMIC Ballroom in Orange County, and Eastside Stomp in Seattle.)

Amanda Pincock

Amanda discovered swing dancing as a teenager in 1994 in Southern California, and feels lucky to have been part of the “Swing revival” of that time. After moving to Austin in 2014, she started focusing on Shag. She fell in love immediately, spending countless hours studying it, watching clips, and of course discussing it with other Shag dancers. That same year, she won her first Shag competition, and has been teaching and performing regularly ever since.  Amanda loves spreading her love of Shag and other swing dances with new and experienced dancers alike, and regularly travels to instruct. With a background in gymnastics and many years of teaching in and out of the classroom, she brings years of experience of teaching adults to her classes, and enjoys blending serious technique with fun, self expression, and love for the dance.  Currently, she teaches regular Collegiate Shag classes at The Swing Syndicate in Austin, Texas, and leads an all-female Collegiate Shag team, The Shag Hags.

D'Vonne Lewis

Winner of the 2013, 2018 and 2021 “NW Instrumentalist of the Year” honors in the Seattle Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Awards, D’Vonne Lewis (drums) is the grandson of the ‘Godfather’ of rock and roll/soul, 1950s-1960s Northwest organ legend, Dave Lewis. Lewis graduated from Seattle’s Roosevelt High School in 2002 and was a member of the award-winning jazz band, directed by SRJO trombonist, Scott Brown. While in high school, D’Vonne received the Essentially Ellington Drum soloist award for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002. Lewis resides in Seattle, WA, and extensively tours and performs various gigs in styles ranging from jazz, big band, funk, hip-hop, rock, Brazilian and African. He has recorded and performed with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis; Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra; Maria Schneider; Digable Planets; Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam; Christian McBride; John Clayton; George Porter, Jr. of  the Meters; George Cables; Diane “Deedles” Schuur; Bucky Pizzarelli; Marian McPartland and a number of other local and national artists. Lewis composes for his own band, ‘D’Vonne Lewis’ LIMITED EDITION’; his own trio under his name and D’Vonne Lewis 2. He is also the 2006 Earshot Golden Ear Award winner for ‘Emerging Artist of the Year’ and the 2014 Stranger Magazine ‘Genius’ award recipient and serves on the Seattle Jazz Fellowship Board.

Josh Roberts

Josh Roberts is a jazz guitarist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Specializing in styles of jazz which emerged in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, his playing is rooted in the styles of early electric jazz guitarists like Charlie Christian and George Barnes, as well as masters of acoustic rhythm guitar, such as Freddie Green and Allan Reuss. He has performed across North America, in Europe and the Caribbean. 

Alex Guilbert

Alex Guilbert has been part of the Seattle Jazz scene for decades, performing and recording with some of the Northwest’s finest musicians. His interest in early Jazz was cultivated as a member of Holotradband, a 7 piece traditional jazz band that had a 10 year weekly residency at the storied New Orleans Creole Restaurant in Pioneer Square. His familiarity with the swing and early Jazz repertoire has made him a perfect fit for dance events, which he plays for frequently, both as a leader and sideman. Alex also hosts and curates the popular “Piano Starts Here” series at the Royal Room, and writes and produces scores for video games by day.

Hans Teuber

Hans Teuber has been a mainstay on the Northwest jazz scene for over 25 years, working with Wayne Horvitz, Jeff Johnson, Clay Giberson, and others who lean toward progressive jazz. On his first album as a soloist, Teuber relied on his compositions as the framework for his work on alto and tenor saxophone, flute, and clarinet. His orchestrations are engaging pieces of work without becoming raucous or loud. They naturally tend to frame his considerable fluency and facility with the horns, especially the alto which he seems to favor, such as on "More Illusions" where his alto lays down the playing line while members of the rhythm section dart around like bees buzzing around a nest. In contrast, still on alto, "C Minor Waltz uses more abstract figures. "B.C." opens with Teuber's feathery flute giving impressions of a sylvan setting before seguing in somewhat of a controlled, creative free for all with one instrument playing against another. "Bom Pra Caramba" is the result of modern creative jazz ideas applied to a Latin beat. The tenor comes into play on "Old Fellow," giving the music a dreamy aura as Santi Debriano shows imagination on a lengthy bass solo. While the music on this CD is quite pretty, one wishes there were a bit more diversity. After a while, a certain sameness creeps in, which is always a risk when the musical agenda is prepared by the same person. One or two classics or jazz standards would have elevated this CD to a more interesting level.

Jerome Smith

Born in Austin, TX, Jerome Smith has been a professional musician for almost 20 years. Playing music has taken him all over the world including Los Angeles, CA for the Grammy’s; Orlando, FL for Disney World show bands, Beijing and Shanghai, China on orchestra tours, United Kingdom and South America on Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Lines; Teaching at the International School of Moscow, Russia, just to name a few places. Jerome has also worked with Arturo Sandoval, Carlos Santana, Bobby Caldwell, Robert Glasper, and others in his professional career. He delights in teaching as music enriches the soul, and there’s no better gift than to pass on to the next generation of musicians than the passion he shares for playing music.