Shim Sham with Tish

Join Tish and learn the Shim Sham! Tish will be teaching this classic routine in a 90 minute class with 30 minutes to practise at the end. The Shim Sham is a popular line dance usually performed to “Tain’t What You Do” by Jimmy Lunceford. Often it functioned as an all-hands finale, where dancers, singers and musicians alike would join in. At the Savoy Ballroom, Frankie Manning and his friends sometimes danced it together on the sidelines. Some sixty years later, Frankie introduced the routine to a new generation of Lindy hoppers. He created a longer version by repeating the original Goofus chorus a second time with breaks, then adding a section of boogie forwards, boogie backs, and Shorty Georges. The workshop is £12 (cash only) or 1.5 dots on a class card.