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By Dancers for Dancers and MusiciansWe developed our BJ Dance Towels from our own experience as dancers and musicians in late night ballrooms, heated jam circles and sun filled pavilions, on light filled stages and amidst the crowd. |
We are actually just 3 people who created this from nothing. Benedikt, Annika and Gosia. We LOVE Swing! The whole team consists of 100% dancers and musicians. We live and breathe swing and dance. If you want to meet us, just go to a random swing festival or concert, chances are high that you will meet at least one of us there.
We want to honour those who move the Swing-Music and Swing-Dancing community forward. Those who think that it's important to care for one another. Those who want to make the evening the greatest experience for others.Those who know that carrying a towel is a favour they do to everyone around them. Those for whom style and elegance is mandatory. We do this by giving them a towel with which they don't have to hide in the corner, but can be proud to wear.
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THE SAVOY Inspired by the Savoy Ballroom "The Worlds Finest Ballroom", the home of our legends, Frankie Manning, Norma Miller, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Count Basie and all the others. |
THE AVIATOR The perfect companion for every Lindy Hopper! Inspired by the original "Welcome Lindy" pin. With this you show that you care for your partners and are well connected to the history of Lindy Hop.
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We are emissaries of the history and the future of Swing so all our designs are based deeply in the roots of the dance and the music.
Every design caters to a very specific element of Swing history and there are hundreds of stories and hours woven right into the design. If you dive your head into the towel you dive right into the era that it represents.
" The soul of Harlem and the heart of Texas - A Jay Wade serves up hot jazz with a country flair in the tradition of America’s 1930s and '40s South Western dance halls. This London based band brings that thrilling Western Swing rhythm to the dance floor! "
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My new project was a blast! Designing music cover for the album of one of my favourite Hot Jazz bands - The Gentlemen & Gangsters! It was a great creative journey going through this process together. Getting to know their taste, ideas and music stories and then transferring all of it into the paper, carving and finally printing the Cover and the Cd!
“The Gentlemen & Gangsters play hot jazz with all the flair and sophistication of true gentlemen, coupled with the ruthless brutality of hardened gangsters. Like a devious conspiracy from a bygone era, this shady syndicate of jazz kingpins plot for world domination from their secret location in a run down part of Gothenburg. Armed with drumsticks instead of knuckle dusters and trombones instead of tommy guns these deranged masterminds spread mayhem, joy, and decadence wherever they go.”
Want to hear more? Check it out https://gentlemenandgangsters.bandcamp.com/
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