Rhythm Is Our Business
10019-80 Ave T6E 1T4 Edmonton, AB, Canada

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This Friday! Jam night!!!

We are Jamming next weekend with another big JAM night! Join Tab CA as she shares with us her experimental fusion flavour of dance! Then we are jamming until we drop! https://www.facebook.com/events/1245476105524035/

Hi folks! Lindy Harvest (Oct 12-16, Edmonton) is a premier dance weekend, right here in our lovely city, attracting people from all over Western Canada! We combine everything you love about dancing so that us Lindy Hoppers can grow and become more inspired by this amazing dance: quality instructors, live music, deejays, contests, an amazing venue, cool shirts, and fun activities! This year we’ve so far lined up Mark & Katie from Seattle, Anais & Aleix from Montreal, with more guest artists TBA. The 1st early-bird is TODAY! Midnight, Sunday, August 27 with the next on September 17. Check out the full event details at http://lindyharvest.sugarswing.com/. Thank you for reading! Birkley from Sugar Swing

"It's all well and good to stay on time with the music, but it's also important to feel what the music is giving you!" -Janae at tonight's Rhythm Tap lesson before the jam. Applies to all of us! #RhythmIsOurBusiness #SankofaSwing #TapDance

There's an amazing dance workshop happening in Edmonton, Canada by the same company that hosts Rhythm is our business. Lindy Harvest! It happens October 12 to 16. Come on out! https://www.facebook.com/events/810706972411467/?ti=as

This page is back from the summer Hiatus! We are ready to Jam again! SEPTEMBER 10th!!

Happy birthday Satchmo!!

Happening right now! Come check it out YEG!

"Lets get that rhythm out of our heads and into our butts.." overheard at tonight's #RhythmIsOurBusiness lesson!

Jam night! This week!! Going to be an awesome solo jazz class followed by the Jam and then dancing at Sugar Swing all night long!!

Inspiration for the day!! The one legged tap dancing man!

Whitey's Lindy Hopper's in Day At the Races, the full clip gives a really excellent glimpse into the beauty of African American culture, singing together, dancing together, joy and freedom!

This coming Saturday at Sugar Swing Dance Club! It's our monthly Rhythm Is Our Business Jam night! https://www.facebook.com/events/1070559902964874/

Happy International Women's Day! Did you know that Jeni Legon was the first woman to establish a solo career in Tap Dance?

In honour of International Women's day, we present to you this wonderful clip of one of the best performers ever, Mable Lee!

The showbiz faces of Bojangles and Fats Waller. Livin' in a Great Big Way! Jeni Legon is in that clip too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnGd6Gns4Is

Skye and Frida are two of the best! Lindy Hop is alive and well!

Happy Leapyear day!! once every four years!! This is a special clip for a special day! Here's the very very young Nicholas Brother's in a Vaudville show 1935. Also, this page hit 1,000 likes incredibly fast! But as promised, we're going to post something really cool to thank you all for the support! Keep those likes an shares coming! Keep sharing rhythmic dancing! us dancers in Edmonton have some really cool projects to do together!

Ladies and gentlemen, Janae Olsen! Rhythm is her business! #NextSteps #RhythmIsOurBusiness

Edmonton's Street Hip Hop Dance scene has some amazing rhythmic dancers! Check out Individual unit, and subscribe to their youtube channel! Sekou Sonko Boisclair Tyler MurphysLaw Furlotte Trayvon Jamal Lewis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ZmfbtBCiI

Blip Blip!!! The music of Duke Ellington, singing and dancing with Paul White and Marie Bryant... The facial expressions are the best part! How many Jazz and Lindy Hop steps today come from clips like this? Can you count them?

Wow! This page really took off this past weekend! over 500 new Likes on the page! Thanks for the support, all! We have no idea where all of you came from, but delighted that you are here! :) Rhythm Is Our Business, is an initiative by Tap Dancers and Lindy Hoppers and Hip Hop dancers in the Edmonton Street dance scene to connect the different dance styles, jam together, learn from each other and be inspired in a non-competitive place. In our quest to stay inspired, we post al...l kinds of things on this page from vintage dance and music inspiration, to wonderful dancers in this vernacular today, and videos of ourselves jamming. Seeing so many new people following this page tells me that there is belief in such a mission! THANK YOU! and WELCOME! If we reach 1000 likes, we will release a special video of us sharing our love of rhythm with YOU! So, please keep liking and sharing! Tell the world about how the African-American spirit of performing lives on in young dancers of today, in all races colours and creeds! Sincerely, Turlough Myers and Jenna Werhun Directors of RIOB

Jamming is underway at Sugar Swing! Tyler "Murphy's law" Is teaching Popping this month!!! Gonne be a solid night! #streetdance #popping #hiphop #RhythmIsOurBusiness

Ever wonder where Jazz and Hip Hop nicknames come from? You earn your nickname with a story or a style! Maybe someone will earn their nickname this weekend at our Rhythm Jam!! https://www.facebook.com/events/671639672975879/

Tyler "Murphys Law" Furlotte!! He's teaching us Popping at the jam this Saturday!!!

Skip ahead to the awesome part...dancers keep coming out of nowhere!!!

Really excited to announce that the next Rhythm Jam is on February 13th! And it features a lesson in HIP HOP! Popping with Tyler! See you on the dance floor!

This is happening this Sunday @ 3:00 PM! Come get your jam on, this time to some live music.

Some sweet Jazz is going down this Friday!!

Having a little Shim Sham fun Charlie Chaplin style!

Legend of Tap Gregory Hines reminds us to stay positive, not to get competitive, work hard and enjoy the ride!

All of us have had our non-Lindy-Hopper-Friends post this on our walls, but the video that was going around left out the great Frankie Manning! Here's the whole thing! Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Hellzapoppin' 1941. 1st couple: William Downes and Frances "Mickey" Jones 2nd couple: Billy Ricker and Norma Miller ... 3rd couple: Al Minns and Willa Mae Ricker 4th couple: Frankine Manning and Ann Johnson See more

RIOB director Turlough Myers starts teaching solo jazz classes at Sugar Swing tonight! Jazz 1: Sundays at 2:00PM Jazz 2: Tuesdays at 6:00PM Register here -----> http://www.sugarswing.com/authentic-jazz/

Jenna Werhun knows whats up! Great jam last night!!!

This applies to all other forms of "dance too...that groove, that push that quick foot." - Masani African dance is the root of all rhythmic dance!

Look at Masani's hair WHOOSH! RIOB is underway with our West African Dance workshop!

Listen to some great music, dance with some wonderful Lindy Hoppers, soak in the hot tub...this event is one of the best!

Jeni Legon was the first woman to establish a solo career in Tap Dance! She and Bojangles were Livin' in a Great Big Way!

Bill Bailey does the MOONWALK 1943

There's the event! Will you be there? Ready to JAM!

Very happy to announce that the wonderful Masani St. Rose-Toth is back to give the workshop before this month's Rhythm Jam! West African Dancing! See you there! January 16th at 7:00PM

MARK YOUR CALENDARS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! We have the confirmed dates for RIOB jam nights at the Sugar Foot Ballroom for January - May January 16th February 13th... March 19th April 23rd May 14th See you guys on the dance floor for some serious rhythm!

Michael Darigol and Brittany Johnson know how to jam! Boom! #LindyHop

The world may never see entertainers like people in show business in the 40s, and the Nicholas Brothers were the best!! Harold and Fayard Nicholas, Glenn Miller Orchestra - Ive Got a Gal in Kalamazoo: 1942

Inspiration for the day! Have you got a hand full of nothing? Watch it like a hawk! If you got a smile, rhythm, boy, you got everything you need! You're living in a Great Big Way!

"It's always better to something clean and simple than something overly complicated!" -Jenna Werhun #RhythmIsOurBusiness

We're ready for the tap lesson! #RhythmIsOurBusiness

Today is the big day! We are so ready for some Jamming! :)

96 now! Happy birthday Norma!

Less than a week now until the next RIOB jam night!! It's THIS SATURDAY! And Jenna Werhun is teaching with several of her tap students from the Next Steps dance program! Check her out! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGXjUlB6SV4

The Lindy Hop clip from Day at the Races is a very special one, because in a way it takes you through African-American history...from the poverty of slavery, singing the Negro Spiritual songs, to the joy of Freedom expressed in the dancing. "Who dat man? Why it's Gaberiel!" God's Messenger angel bring the news of freedom! "Maybe haven't got money, maybe haven't got shoes, all God's chillun got rhythm for to push away their blues! https://youtu.be/FaB60PQlnwE

Look what arrived today!! :) Big thanks to Jenna O'Flaherty aviatrixdesign.ca for the design!!