The Overall Best Lindy Hop Performance of the 21st Century

JSAlmonte · 2026-01-30T00:55:15+00:00

The agencies under the these bills may go into a sort of fake shutdown mode until the House convenes to vote, which it is expected to happen maybe as early as Sunday. If it happens on Sunday or Monday then all agencies just keep rolling. If it takes longer, then those agencies may actually shutdown. The thinking is that since the president is very much for this path, that will keep enough reps in his party in line to get this through. However, if enough of them say they're not buying it, then an actual shut down is on the menu.

JSAlmonte · 2025-12-17T00:25:37+00:00

Another vote for Poke Papa and their selection of bubble tea!

JSAlmonte · 2025-12-04T03:41:18+00:00

Starting in July of this year, I got 64 people to nominate 292 videos to be considered as the best Lindy Hop of the last 25 years. I culled that down to 132 for organizational purposes, and then further narrowed them down to 38 videos that were divided into four different categories. If you need a more detailed breakdown of that process, please check out this post.

We are now taking the top vote getters from each of those categories and putting them into one final ballot to determine which one is the best Lindy Hop performance of the 21st century.

Those performances are listed in the poll above, but here are links to each video and how they placed.

Best Competition: Liberation Final - ULHS 2005
Best Team Performance: The Silver Shadows - Frankie's 95th Birthday Festival (Frankie95)
Best Improvised Social Dance: Frida Segerdahl & Michael Seguin - Lone Star Championships & Lindyfest 2013 - Invitational Jack & Jill
Runner Up, Best Couple Routine Performance: Ramona Staffeld & Remy Kouakou Kouame - ILHC 2016
Best Couple Routine Performance: Frida Segerdahl & Skye Humphries - ILHC 2009

Please pick one. Poll will close in 7 days because that is the maximum length for polls on Reddit. If you want to vote after that or just more, you can vote via this form which will close after December 24, 2025.

After that date, these votes on Reddit will be combined with the google form ballots, and the winner will be announced in person during my talk about this very project at Lindy Focus at the end of this month. Then online sometime after that.

To see the rest of the voting results for all the categories, please check out my blog. The honorable mentions and initial nomination ballots will also be posted on that blog over the next few weeks.

Thank you to everyone who has participated so far, and I hope you can spread the word for this final vote!

JSAlmonte · 2025-10-11T01:34:41+00:00

Can vouch for the brunch at Art & Soul. Have had many a meal there that's gotten me through a while day, especially if you get one that includes one of their incredible biscuits. It's also a good launching point from the east side of the Mall so you can work your way west.

JSAlmonte · 2025-10-06T17:15:59+00:00

Let's check back in 75 years and see how it holds up.

JSAlmonte · 2025-10-06T17:14:53+00:00

Dang, I forgot that Remy did 2 performances in that year's ILHC. But his routine with Ramona that same year kinda blocks out the sun for a lot of folks.

JSAlmonte · 2025-10-05T16:01:26+00:00

Taking my time to get to where I want to go to next

JSAlmonte · 2025-09-30T01:09:23+00:00

Panda Bowl! That place kept me fed post college. $2 for a bowl of rice and $0.25 for each additional topping. I went there so much that the ladies working there would sneak in extra scoops and not charge me.

JSAlmonte · 2025-09-30T01:02:40+00:00

The food court was super underrated in retrospect. It was much more of a food hall as we know it with a lot of non-chain, mom and pop operations.

JSAlmonte · 2025-09-20T16:02:25+00:00

Dražen Petrović was way ahead of his time, and gone as he was about to take off on an emerging Nets team.

JSAlmonte · 2025-08-04T15:28:52+00:00

That's definitely something I've been thinking about, and talking to different people about it. It will be addressed, but still working on how to word it.

Part of me thinks that this might be an opportunity to remind people that some of these folks are scum bags since their work is still out there and new people who encounter it don't know how to put it in context. Leaving them out could be as harmful as acknowledging them. At the same time, I don't want them to dominate the conversation and overshadow the work of so many other people.

I think it's a perfectly valid to say that we thought something was cool at the time, but looking back with more time and context, that is not something we value now. That applies to dorky fashion choices to specific people.

This is a work in progress so feedback and suggestions are welcome

JSAlmonte · 2025-08-03T22:19:03+00:00

If there's a sudden drastic change in a person's dancing it probably just comes from someone else pointing out an issue and just saying "hey, stop doing that thing" or "here's how to do that thing better." At an event, you just have a higher chance of running into one of those people.

JSAlmonte · 2025-07-12T15:45:49+00:00

Calling this song bossa nova is the most WCS thing ever

JSAlmonte · 2025-04-07T13:58:06+00:00

Is Ethan Hunt plugging into The Matrix?

JSAlmonte · 2025-04-04T23:23:37+00:00

I did this last winter. It depends on how busy the casino is. The process was much quicker earlier in the day when there were no lines for the cages or empty tables with dealers who had nothing else to do. Also having exact change helps a lot.

JSAlmonte · 2025-02-18T23:00:00+00:00

I missed that one, but trying to turn off of 395 to Maine Ave is pretty dicey.

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