Damon Stone
Damon has been dancing his entire life. Starting with vernacular jazz/blues he went on to Hip-Hop, and eventually studied over a dozen different dance styles until coming full circle focusing primarily on the history and styles of swing and blues, in 1995.

He has taught dance extensively on both coasts, and studied the development of vernacular jazz/blues dance regionally and nationally, traveling to New York, Chicago, Memphis, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, St. Louis, and New Orleans. He has been interviewed as a jazz dance historian in documentary and for radio.

Damon has been a featured instructor at numerous swing camps and jazz festivals and workshops and camps across the U.S. and Canada. He is a member of the California Historical Jazz Dance Foundation, and a member of the Northern California Lindy Society.

Heidi Fite
Heidi began dancing and teaching in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1999 and has been dancing, teaching, and performing ever since. She now lives in San Francisco, California, where she teaches classes, workshops, and private lessons.

Admired for her clear explanation of fundamentals, Heidi brings to all her classes and workshops not only a focus on solid techniques, but more important, a love of dance and a dedication to the learning process.

Heidi has been a featured instructor at numerous workshops across the United States and Canada, including St. Louis, Missouri; Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal, Canada; Dallas, Texas; Williamsburg, Virginia; and San Francisco, California.

Ogden Sawyer
Ogden's experience with movement began studying martial arts at age nine. In 1997, he walked into a swing dance and was hooked. Over the last 9 years, he has studied various swing dances, ballroom dancing, African dance, Argentine tango, lindy hop, and blues dancing, and has been teaching lindy hop, connection, and musicality classes in the Boston area for the past 6 years.

Ogden had been teaching dancing, choreographing, and competing with Amanda in blues dance since 2000. They have been teaching since 2002. Their style of modern blues combines historic blues dance with modern concepts of strong connection, partnered improvisation, and elements from many of the different dance styles they have studied. This unique blend has given them a national reputation for inspiring and emotional partnered blues dancing.

Amanda Gruhl
Amanda has been dancing since age five. Experienced in dance instruction, choreography, performance, and show production, she has studied blues dance, lindy hop, jazz, ballet, tap, lyrical dance, sacred dance, and hip hop. She has also had instruction in other dance forms such as popping/breaking, flamenco, modern dance, and ballroom dance. Amanda has been swing dancing for 8 years and has had the opportunity to teach lindy hop in Boston with several national instructors.

Since 2003, Ogden and Amanda have been teaching at national events and workshops, encouraging and supporting the recent growth and popularity of blues dance. Their teaching style communicates their passion for blues dancing, and encourages dancers of all levels to take chances and push their personal boundaries.

Jerry Warwick
Jerry is fun, easy to get along with, loved by just about everyone, and--needless to say--the man KNOWS how to dance. He brings his love and passion for Blues to the plate, whether he's stepping up to DJ, to dance, or to teach.

One can't think of Jerry without immediately adding "...and Kathy" to the mental process. Jerry and Kathy have been dancing and instructing Lindyhop and Blues for over six years. They have taught their style of Blues / Slow dancing around the country to overwhelming praise by their students.

Kathy Warwick
"Mama K", as she is often lovingly referred to, has taken adopted the Dallas dance scene. Her love, however, isn't limited to the one city, but extends to her entire dancing "family."

Jerry and Kathy have been using their humorous style on their quest to connect your soul to your dancing. They teach weekly lessons in Dallas, were the organizers of Red, White and Blues in Dallas for three years, and love traveling around the country to teach.

Don West
Don West has been dancing since 1997 and teaching since 2000 in Dallas. He's been in a number of dance troupes including Smiley's Lindy Hoppers, Uptown Swing and began his own troupe called the Madcap Maniacs and is now the creative director for the ACME Swing Company. He was also the 2000 American Lindy Hop Jack and Jill Champion in Connecticut as well as first place winner in several local competitions in Austin and Houston....

...And that was all BEFORE he took up this whole "Blues" thing. Since teaching with Tina at BBC last year, Don has been requested all over the country to share his love and knowledge of Blues.

Don's teaching style focuses on technique and communication in social dancing, and wants nothing more than to share his love of the dance with you and for you to enjoy yourself on the dance floor.

Tina Davis
Tina has been dancing Swing, Lindy Hop and Blues since 1999, getting caught up in the resurgence of Swing Dancing thanks to those crazy Gap ads. Since then she's been dancing up a storm, fitting in a growing love for West Coast Swing, Argentine Tango and Ballroom Dance with all that swingin'.

Tina is continuing her love affair with dance by teaching and spreading her love of Blues dance across the land. She has organized and/or taught at several Blues dance workshops in Austin and Dallas, and at national events like Austin Blues Party, Blues Boot Camp (Dallas) and ReEnter the Blues (Atlanta).

Tina likes to emphasize to students sound fundamentals, the basics of rhythm, and love of the music. But most of all, dancing has just got to be fun.