Simon
Selmon
DANCER,
CHOREOGRAPHER AND TEACHER
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Simon has choreographed and performed for stage, film, video and television and written two books on Swing dancing.
He is a UK and American dance champion and has been featured in numerous newspapers and magazines.
He founded the London Swing Dance Society in 1986, the UK's biggest and longest running swing dance club, as well as the famous Stompin' Swing Nights at London's legendary 100 Club. |
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- Featured dancer in ITV's Foyles War Jan 2006
- Dancer in Inspector Lynley BBC TV Drama
- Dancer in Mike Leigh movie Vera Drake
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- Jive expert & featured dancer in BBC 1, Strictly Come Dancing in December 2004
- BBC's The Generation Game.
- Deborah Bull in Travels with my Tutu - a dancing documentary for BBC2.
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- Arsenal Football Club, Diamond Club event, London March 2007
- Innocent Fruits Fete, Regents Park, London, July 2007
- Featured dancer in the Glenn Miller Concert, Princes Theatre, Torquay, Aug 2006
- West End Live, Leicester Square London, July 2004-2006
- Edinburgh Festival, Vaudeville Cabaret Club, August 2005
- Featured dancer with The Legend of Sinatra featuring Gary Williams and David Jacobs
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- Workshops and performances at Cabinet War Rooms for the 1940s Dance Nights, various occasions.
- Duxford Imperial War Museum, various occasions
- 1920s workshops and performances for the Flappers and Follies Summer Party at the Victoria & Albert Museum, July 2003
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Simon & Taina
Photo by Tony Rusecki
 Simon Selmon & Kate Keller
Photo by Tim Flach
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Performances with many of the UK's top swing orchestras including The BBC Big Band, The Herb Miller Orchestra, Piccadilly Dance Orchestra, Graham Dalby and the Grahamophones, Palm Court Theatre Orchestra, The Ray Gelato Giants, Gary Williams Big Band, King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys, Sugar Ray's Flying Fortress, Kit Packham's One Jump Ahead, Blue Harlem
We have performed at the Hurlingham Club, London SW6, Roof Gardens, Kensington, Bexley Hall, Kent, Park Lane Hotel, Landsdowne Club, Mayfair W1, Cobden Club, London W10, Chesterfield Hotel, Mayfair W1, Grafton Hotel, Wimbledon Tennis Club, Theatre Museum, De Montfort Hall, Leicester, the Hippodrome, Leicester Square, London
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Taina Kortelainen & Simon Selmon
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- UK Open Jive Championships 2001 - Lindy Hop division winner
- UK Open Lindy Hop Champion 2000.
- American Swing Dance Champion 1999 - Blues Division
- Judge, World Lindy Championships 2004, France
- DJ Snohetta cup 2004, Norway
- Organiser, United Kingdom Open Lindy Hop Championships
- MC, World Lindy Hop Championships 2002
- Judge, World Lindy Hop Championships 1997
- Judge, American Lindy Hop Championships
- Canonbury Primary School, swingdance workshop for Year 6, July 2007
- Junior King's School, Canterbury, swingdance workshop for Year 6, July 2007
- St Clements and St James Primary School, swingdance workshop for Year5, June 2007
- St Marylebone School, swingdance workshop for Year 12 GCSE dance students, Sept 2006
- Salvatorian College & Sacred Heart (Teaching and choreography) 2005
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- Boogie Baerens, Germany, June 2007
- Herrang Dance Camp, Sweden (over 10 years).
- Dance Holidays Spain & Malta 2003-2006
- Moscow Swing dance society, October 2005
- Also: Toronto, Osaka & Tokyo, New York, Augusta Heritage Festival, Catalina etc
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Author of Swing dancing. For beginners through to teachers, this instructional book features appoximately 50 different swing moves for all levels plus history, music section and general advice for the cool hep cats of today.
Author of Let's Lindy, first book of its kind that teaches you how to lindy and gives you an insight into its history.
Swingdance article, Dancing Times Ltd. (February 2003).
Featured in Mirror, Times, Independent, Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Sunday Express, Elle Magazine, Livewire, Der Spiegel, Marie Claire, Dance Today and on radio's Jazz FM, LBC, BBC.
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The
Sugarfoot Stompers
JAZZ DANCE COMPANY
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The Sugarfoot Stompers (founded in 1991 under
the artistic direction of Simon Selmon) have built up an excellent
reputation for both teaching and performing authentic jazz
dance. They specialise in many of the popular dances from
the 1920's through to the 1960's, such as the Charleston,
Shim Sham, Big Apple, Rock'n'Roll, Madison and, of course,
the famous Lindy Hop.
The Stompers can offer anything from one dance
number to a complete show. At parties they include dance tuition
and help create a fun and friendly atmosphere at a wide range
of events.
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Caroline
O'Driscol, Richard Dixon, Rachel Glasspool, Graeme Stoten, Carol
Knight, Lucy Pemberton, Louise Thwaite |
Simon Selmon
and Alexa Poller |
The dancers have appeared in films, such as War Brides,
Back Home, Take a Girl Like You,
Swing, Memphis Belle, Chicago
Joe and the Showgirl, Tom and Viv, B
Monkey, on TV: The Generation Game,
Secret History, String of Pearls, London
Bridge, Rock with Laughter, Blue
Peter, Capital Woman, Big City,
Strictly Dancing, in Festivals: HMS
Belfast, West end at the war, Coin Street Festival - Capital
Age Day, and in concert in the BBC Big Band's Forces
Sweethearts and The Joint is Jumpin'
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They work extensively with many of the UK's best swing and big
bands, including the Herb Miller Big Band, the Piccadilly Dance
Orchestra, the Gramophones, the Palm Court Theatre Orchestra, King
Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys, and the Ray Gelato Giants. The Stompers
have performed on all sorts of occasions from theatre shows, corporate
events, festivals and private functions. In 1995 they spent three
days in Hyde Park running workshops and performances for the commemoration
of the 50th anniversary of VE day.
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More recently the Sugarfoot Stompers were seen at the Purcell
Room, Southbank Centre in the show Ignite and
they completed a tour of the UK and Ireland with the Ray Gelato
Giants - one of Britain's leading modern swing bands - in
a show called Swing Swing Swing.
To find out what we can tailor for your event, please go to Book
Us.
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Simon Selmon, Mark Wheeler, Nigel Anderson, Natalie Hackner, Judith Hammer, Emma Warren,
Carolina Osario, Cesar Osario, Paul Crook
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Natasha
Hall |
Nina Daines |
 Kirsty
Mason
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Moe Sakan |
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Richard Pucci