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Names for the Chicks
burdi:
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--- Quote from: burdi on July 10, 2014, 19:41 ---You sure have a talent for great names and themes TPC. Quite fitting I feel, and I really like each of these names! :D
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Can't take credit for these names I'm afraid.
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Interesting, as I’ve always liked the name Brooklyn as well! It’s nice to hear local students were able to help with naming chicks raised in their area, and I’m impressed with their well thought out theme and names. Great work Green Team! Thank you for helping the Project.
Kinderchick:
Great names, as usual. :D
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: burdi on July 10, 2014, 19:41 ---You sure have a talent for great names and themes TPC. Quite fitting I feel, and I really like each of these names! :D
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Can't take credit for these names I'm afraid. When the local government office had Green Team students the students used to spend a couple of hours a week checking on the falcons for us (this was before we used cameras) and they got to come up with names for that year. Some Green Team students dreaded this - the student who named Brooklyn was one of those, it was very cute! There haven't been students involved for a number of years so the Project took over the naming the chicks. But because the office has always been willing to help us out when we need it, we always invite the the office to come up with ideas for names - and this year they had a couple of great ideas for a theme and we helped them narrowed it down to one and that's how we got this year's names. Without the webcam this year, the office has been very generous with their help so it was nice that they could name the chicks! :D
burdi:
You sure have a talent for great names and themes TPC. Quite fitting I feel, and I really like each of these names! :D
The Peregrine Chick:
Frankie - after Frankie Manning
Frankie Manning started dancing in his early teens at a Sunday afternoon dance at the Alhambra Ballroom in Harlem to the music of Vernon Andrade. From there he moved on to the Renaissance Ballroom, which had an early evening dance for older teens with the live swing music of the Claude Hopkins Orchestra. Finally, Frankie "graduated" to the Savoy Ballroom, which was known for its great dancers and bands.
Competitive as well as gifted,Manning, became a star in the informal jams in the "Kat's Korner" of the Savoy, frequently won the Saturday night contests, and was invited to join the elite 400 Club, whose members could come to the Savoy Ballroom daytime hours to practice alongside the bands that were booked at the Savoy.
Frank Manning's dancing stood out, even among the greats of the Savoy Ballroom, for its unerring musicality. Fast on his feet and with a keen ear, Frankie gave physical expression to the beat, the feel and the excitement of the swing sound played by the great Big Bands.
Frankie was inspired by first-generation Lindy Hoppers George "Shorty" Snowden and Leroy "Stretch" Jones. However, in order to beat these two great dancers in the intense competitions held at the Savoy Ballroom, Frankie developed his own unique style. He is responsible for many innovations of Lindy Hop step and style, including dancing at a sharp angle to the ground like a track runner, instead of in the upright, stiff ballroom position of his predecessors. In a famous competition --really, a showdown-- Frankie Manning and his partner Freda Washington out-danced Shorty and his partner Big Bea-- and astonished the crowd of 2000-- with the first Lindy air-step ever done.
In 1935, when Herbert White brought together the top Savoy Ballroom Dancers into a professional performance group to be called Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Frankie created the first ensemble Lindy Hop routines. This gave him an opportunity to expand upon his gift for transforming the swing music into exciting dance-movement patterns. When Whitey's Lindy Hoppers were in their heyday, Frankie was the chief choreographer, serving as what we today would call artistic director while Whitey was business manager.
source & videos = http://www.savoystyle.com/frankie_manning.html
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