Global Trickeration Project: NYC Workshops & Video

UPDATE: Registration is now open! Get your tickets here: http://bit.ly/NYCTrickerationTickets _____ NYC takes care of our own--which is why we are so happy to take part in Global Trickeration Project ~ Honoring the life of Norma Miller! Please join us in this campaign to honor and support our very own hometown heroine, Ms. Norma Miller. Norma Miller, lifelong dancer and educator, often taught the Trickeration routine. Here in NYC, we will host 2 workshop opportunities to learn the routine, taught by NYC's own Rafał Pustelny, then film a group performance. The video will be compiled with other Trickeration dance videos from around the world to be shown at ILHC in Washington D.C. on Dec. 2, Norma's 100th Birthday. We are proud to partake in this global celebration of the Queen of Swing! Workshop Dates: #1 Sun. Oct. 20: 4:00-6:00 pm *Space Limited* #2 Sun. Oct. 27: 5:30-7:30 pm (Filming at 7:30 and 8:00 pm) Filming on Sat. Oct. 27: 7:30 pm at You Should Be Dancing Studios...NYC 8:00 pm in Times Square (46th Street, 7th Ave, and Broadway, near Father Duffy Statue) All dancers welcome (even if not in workshops) Workshop Prices: All proceeds from these workshops will go to fundraising efforts by the Frankie Manning Foundation to provide a headstone for Ms. Norma Miller. $20 to attend 1 Workshop Only (Oct. 20 or 27) $30 Combo Ticket to attend both Workshops (both Oct. 20 and 27) Filming: Free to Attend, Open to All Registration is open at the following address: http://bit.ly/NYCTrickerationTickets You can learn more about donating to the Frankie Manning Foundation at the following link: https://www.frankiemanningfoundation.org/support-fmf/ We will be teaching and filming Norma’s original version of this routine, shown here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gq33DYHyyEU The song we will dance to is “Jive at Five” by Count Basie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W-qRk70Jm0 Ticket Links and Details to Follow. Please share this with whoever you think would be interested! _____ INFORMATION FROM ORIGINAL EVENT PAGE: Project Description: This year at ILHC we are calling on all Lindy Hoppers and Jazz dancers around the world to join in The Global Trickeration Project to help us honor the life and legacy of the one and only Queen of Swing, Norma Miller. - There are some variations out there, make sure to do Norma’s original version. Link to routine: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gq33DYHyyEU Link to Jive at Five by Count Basie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W-qRk70Jm0 - See it LIVE streamed Dec. 2nd ...or join us! at ILHC 2019: The final edited video will be compiled and presented on Norma's 100th birthday Dec. 2nd at The International Lindy Hop Championships in Washington D.C. as well as performed live by all in attendance who want to join! - Share the love! Use this opportunity to go out of your way to be inclusive in your community! Share this routine with others in your community who don't know it. Besides putting together a video with the routine, use this chance to be inspired by Norma's incredible life and share your "Norma Stories" with your community! Help us spread Norma's legacy and love for Lindy Hop and swing music around the world! Long live the Queen! Make sure to also participate in our other project: Norma Miller ~ Global Stories Project https://www.facebook.com/events/2383106665340509/ _____ About Norma's original Trickeration routine: The Trickeration routine as it was taught by Norma, is a routine that Norma "borrowed" from the chorus dancers at Harlem's Apollo theatre probably around the mid 1930’s. The piece of the routine that Norma used and taught is only a part of a larger original routine that has been lost to time. Norma often used the routine, or pieces of the routine, similarly to the way tap dancers use the B.S. chorus. It served to fill in spaces in her choreography and as a go-to foundation for classic Jazz steps. Norma also used it as an audition piece for the Norma Miller dancers and as a piece intermixed with other Lindy and Jazz choreography she assembled over the years. Frankie Manning even used one of the steps classically in a sequence he also referred to as "Trickeration." And in 2016 a routine was commissioned by Norma with the help of Chazz and Chester which (to the point) has many Trickeration steps in it. Danced to "Rock a bye Basie," this routine has sometimes been confused with the original routine. Although not a lot is technically known about the exact origins of the routine, it's easy to assume that it may have origionally come from the Cotton Club. Cab Calloway was the house band there and in 1931 had a song called "Trickeration." Dancers from the Cotton Club were likely to have also worked at other venues throughout Harlem like the Apollo, bringing the routine along with them and this may be the origin of how Norma came to know it. Norma referred the sequence she used from Trickeration as "the last example of the great and true jazz done by the chorus girls of Harlem" and it has earned its rightful place in the canon of iconic jazz dances associated with our beloved legends of the Savoy and Harlem. Speculation exists about the structure of the routine. While many feel the choreography may be structured to a blues format the original Trickeration song by Cab in 1931 is a 32 bar swing song. Norma would also ask dancers to dance the first phrase of the choreography for her which was the first four counts of eight further suggesting a 32 bar origin. The use of the song "Jive at Five" by Count Basie became globally linked with the routine after Norma taught master classes in New York City for several years bringing the original routine and sequence back into common knowledge of Jazz and Lindy dancers around the world. The routine will be taught at ILHC in honor of Norma's life and legacy by Adam Brozowski, a friend who worked closely with Norma for the last 20 years producing her master classes and promoting and co-teaching with her around the world.