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March 7th 2010
Lindyfest time is here!!Lindyfest is just a few more days away and we've made some special additions to our jammed packed weekend workshop!!!
As always, HSDS is proud to present our fabulous 2010 Lindyfest instructors: Dawn Hampton, Chazz Young, Sylvia Sykes, Nick Williams, Virginie Jensen, Steven Mitchell, Skye Humphries, Frida Segerdahl, Max Pitruzzella, Annie Trudeau, Peter Strom, Ramona Staffeld, Naomi Uyama, Todd Yannacone Nina Gilkenson, Andy Reid, Kevin St Laurent and Jo Hoffberg!
 We are also very pleased to have several special guests joining us for Lindyfest! Legendary performer, Norma Miller, Frankie Manning biographer, Cynthia Millman, Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging director, Julie Cohen, SavoyStyle.com owner Judy Pritchett, and Harlem preservationist, Lana Turner.
General Registration for everyone - $170 at the door March 11th-14th, 2010
All workshop prices include all workshops and dances Thursday through Sunday
Back to top Lindyfest Schedule In case you haven't seen our 2010 workshop schedule, we now have the Lindyfest schedule posetd online!! We've brought back the handy dandy schedule maker so you can pick and choose your personalized schedule and email till your heart's a flutter with joy!! Back to top Checking InThe Thursday Registration/Check-in will be located in the Magnolia Ballroom at the Sheraton Brookhollow and will start at 8pm. Please have your photo ID out to help speed along
the process. Back to top Room block extended through March 10thMake sure to book your rooms! The hotel has veen gracious enough to extend the $79 rate until March 10th!! The  Sheraton Brookhollow hotel is the official location for all the Lindyfest dances Thursday through Sunday. As an extra bonus for staying at the hotel, we'll be offering a f ree shuttle service between the hotel and workshop location at the JCC. Be where the party's at all weekend long and reserve your room before it fills up!
Update: I have heard that there are very few rooms left for March 10th and 11th. Please call the hotel directly at 713.613.0674 if you have any issues booking your room.
Don't forge t to pack your swim-suits! The average high for Houston is a comfy, non-snowy 73F!! Back to top Thursday Evening Welcome Dinner BuffettWe want to extend our warmest welcome to you from the very start of the Lindyfest weekend! Before the workshops, dances and merriment, we're giving you guys a chance to fuel up and meet up with other Lindyfest goers! The Sheraton Brookhollow restaurant, Cimmeron, will be offering a $15 (+tax) all-you-can-eat dinner buffet (vegetarian options included). Stop by the Cimerro
n from 6:30-9pm for the buffet goodness!
Back to top Join us for Dinner and a Movie HSDS is sponsoring a special screening in our Dinner and  a Movie series. Join us on Friday evening at 7pm in the Grand Ballroom for the 30 minute documentary, Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging. Director Julie Cohen and Producer Buddy Steves will be in attendance to introduce and take any questions. The Sheraton Brookhollow will have a "Movie Dinner Menu" with a selection of movie worthy munchies like hamburgers, hot dogs, nachos and popcorn or you can bring your own meal to the screening. We'll follow the documentary with selected lindy hop clips from the classics to the new editions until 8:30 when we'll close the ballroom before the dancing begins at
9pm. Copies of Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging will be available for purchase in "The Shop" for $20.
On Sunday, join for clips from never before seen edits from the Frankie 95 Celebration! We can't say much more about this, than WOW! If you weren't there, you'll certainly feel like it after watching this footage!! This footage is also airing 7-8:30pm in the Grand Ballroom with the "Movie Dinner Menu." Back to top Advanced Try-OutsYou asked for it, you got it! Advanced try-outs will be held as official "Jack and Jill" contests with competition numbers and judges scoring, to boot.
There are only TWO try-out sessions on the schedule: Friday, 10:00am in the JCC Gymnasium and Saturday at 1:15pm at the JCC Room 122.
Please arrive to the try-outs on time with your general registration  wristband already on your wrist. This means you'll have to go to the main registration and check in first before you visit us in the try-out rooms, please.
You may also try-out for the Master's track during this time. Please identify yourself before the process begins so the judges know in advance to evaluate you for that track.
Remember, that you are judged only on what you do in that room for the try-outs. You have two opportunities for advanced try-outs in case you feel like you didn't perform up to your standards. Good luck to everyone! Back to top Pre-Order your Lunches!!Don't want to waste your lunch hour waiting in line?? The Cafe at t  he J will take your pre-orders for lunch You'll receive your order form in your registration packet for tasty goodness prepared fresh for your lunch. Fill them in, drop them off before 11am and when we break for class your order will be up first!! Remember, the Cafe will be closed all day Saturday! Friday cafe hours are 8am-3:00pm and Sunday cafe hours are from 8am-4pm. Back to t
op Saturday Evening Performance We've got some great performances scheduled for you this year at the Saturday evening dance! Don't miss out on routines from the Silver Shadows, Max and Annie and Kevin and Jo plus more suprizes to come!! Plan on being at the party Saturday night. Back to top Frankie Manning Tribute Class We have all felt the loss of Frankie Manning last year just before his 95th birthday. HSDS would like to remember all of the joy that he brought to us each and every year of Lindyfest! So, we have asked all of our instructors to create a special class that focuses on the impact Frankie had on their dancing. It could be their favorite Frankie moves or inspirational moments. We hope everyone can make it to some of these classes as each one is unique. Let's all share in the joy that Frankie gave to us in the Lindy Hop. Back to top Special Screening of Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging Documentary The HSDS produced documentary, Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging, will be screened Friday, March 12th at 7pm in the Sheraton Grand Ballroom with Director Julie Cohen in attendance.
Legend meets Lindy Hop in this 30-minute “documentary of dance” featuring Frankie Manning, a man who, in the words of director Julie Cohen, “truly LIVED every moment of his life.”
The documentary features the last major interview of Frankie Manning before his death, as well as precious archival footage of his dancing from the 1930’s to 2009 in New York, Hollywood, Sweden, France, Italy and Singapore. Footage highlights include scenes of Manning’s birthday parties, where he danced with one woman for each year he’d been alive, the legendary dance scene choreographed and headlined by Manning for the film “Hellzapoppin,” and the phenomenal duet with his 76-year-old son, Chazz, himself a professional dancer. Frankie was a born storyteller, with a huge smile and an even bigger laugh. Back to top Getting to HoustonHouston has two ariports that carry all the major airlines, the George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and the William P. Hobby Airport (Hou). IAH is the hub for Continental Airlines and offer services to many major cities. Southwest Airlines predominantly serves the Hobby Airport. Both airports are a short drive into town with Hobby being the closer, yet smaller airport. IAH is located ~20 miles North of town on US-59, and Hobby is East of town on I-45S.
In case you need some help getting to the hotel from the airport here's some useful information.
The Houston Metro has introduced a new direct shuttle service into downtown Houston departing every 30 minutes for only $15 each way.
You can also schedule your ride through SuperShuttle and they will pick you up at either airport and deliver you to the Sheraton Brookhollow for ~$19 from Hobby and ~$21 from IAH.
Taxi rides to the hotel are ~$45-60 depending on the airport and final destination. Also, check out Houston's local discussion forum is a great place to coordinate these rides.
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Don't forget the breakfast buffet! We will be selling tickets for the evening breakfast spread for Friday and Saturday night for only $12. The food will be rolling out from midnight to 1:30am. This year you'll have the opportunity to really have an all you can eat buffet. Each night you'll be given a different wristband that you'll need to wear to have access to the evening buffet! 
We are excited to announce our DJ line-up!! DJs Jesse Miner (San Francisco, CA), Freddie Dickinson (Seattle, WA), Ryan "Swifty" Swift (NYC, NY) and George "Whitey" White (Austin, TX)!!
We'll be selling Lindyfest t-shirts for $15 during the workshop! Save up those pennies to take home a pretty nice souvenir. We'll have men's and women's short and long sleeve shirts. Shirt styles and sizes will be limited, so pick one up early!!