Sweet 'n' Hot vintage dance performances

Okay I'm going to do a bit of a self-indulgent post here, so please forgive me for tooting my own horn, but here we go ... TOOT!

A couple days ago my beau/dance partner and I - also known as Sweet 'n' Hot vintage dance & entertainment - were the featured performers at a fantastic event that's part of the city of Christchurch's annual Heritage Week celebrations. We did four dance performances at the 'Swing Time in Christchurch' show, where we took audiences on a journey through the swing era.

The venue was the main hangar of the Christchurch Air Force Museum and it was fantastic! We got to dance surrounded by huge vintage airplanes, and they even hung chandeliers from the ceiling! There was a fantastic live big band who played in between our dances, and an old-fashioned 'radio announcer' as MC.

Sweet 'n' Hot perform for a huge crowd
during Christchurch Heritage Week
photo by Neil Macbeth

We'd choreographed and practiced for four months leading up to the show and we're over the moon it went so well - the venue ran out of chairs before the show even started and we had standing room only in the huge hangar.

We had a couple of hitches in some of the dance sequences but we ad libbed a few spots on the fly and the audience would never have noticed - part of being a professional performer means you sometimes have to really think on your feet!

So, without further ado, allow me to share a couple of our performances with you. The first is a 1920s/early '30s Charleston routine, and the second is our tribute to the Andrews Sisters - including some original choreography done by the Sisters themselves in the 1941 movie 'Buck Privates'.

Enjoy!

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Everybody shake that thing! This routine is a lot of fun to perform.


Sweet 'n' Hot's tribute to the Andrews Sisters



...and here's the original. This is my favourite Andrews Sisters song