Midwest Lindy Fest - Jack & Jill - Skye Humphries & Naomi Uyama (2011)
This video should be posting as I’m en route to New Orleans for ULHS. Also, it’s my birthday! Can’t pass up the opportunity to give myself a present and play a Skye video. He’s dancing with the wonderful Naomi Uyama here, and the two work very well together. Both used to be DC-based dancers in the Silver Shadows, so it’s almost impossible to imagine that they wouldn’t be able to anticipate each other’s styles and play around accordingly.
Naomi often is a very understated follow. While many others certainly have very flashy styles, Naomi instead emphasizes a pure follow style—one that can follow accordingly with essentially anything that is led. Of course, when she goes into performances with partners like Todd Yannacone or Peter Strom, she can turn on that lightning and match their larger-than-life styles as well.
Happy birthday to me. Hope to update from ULHS. Watch this tumblr in case it happens.
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