Over the August Bank Holiday weekend a fabulous team of UK dancers competed at the 2015 International Lindy Hop Championships in the USA. They achieved some great results and we couldn’t be more proud. Here’s a full run-down of all the UK results, plus video links!
Place getters
Team: Motley Crew – Cam Mitchell, Cat Foley, Simon Bressanelli, Nancy Hitzig, James Russell, Laura Knight, Alex Parker, Natalia Eristavi
Advanced Strictly Lindy: 3rd Place – Alex Parker and Natalia Eristavi
Advanced Lindy Jack & Jill: 1st Place – Alex Parker and Natalia Eristavi, 2nd Place – Cat Foley
All-Star Jack & Jill: 2nd Place – Moe Sakan
Pro-Am: 3rd Place – Simon Bressanelli (with Jo Hoffberg)
Finalists
Advanced Strictly Lindy: Cam Mitchell and Cat Foley, Alex Parker and Natalia Eristavi, Serena Rizzo (with Manuel Micheli)
Open Strictly Lindy: Simon Bressanelli and Nancy Hitzig
Advanced Lindy Jack & Jill: Cam Mitchell and Serena Rizzo, Alex Parker and Natalia Eristavi, Cat Foley, Simon Bressanelli (alternate)
All-Star Jack & Jill: Moe Sakan
Open Classic: Cam Mitchell and Cat Foley, Alex Parker and Natalia Eristavi, Simon Bressanelli and Nancy Hitzig
Pro Classic: Moe Sakan (with Vincenzo Fesi)
Open Balboa Jack & Jill: Moe Sakan
Open Strictly Balboa: Moe Sakan (with Vincenzo Fesi)
Fourth place getters
Advanced Strictly Lindy: Cam Mitchell and Cat Foley
Open Strictly Lindy: Simon Bressanelli and Nancy Hitzig
Advanced Lindy Jack & Jill: Cam Mitchell and Serena Rizzo
Open Classic: Alex Parker and Natalia Eristavi
A big well done also to Lisa Clarke & Fabien Vrillon. Lisa is formerly from Islington London and is now based in France with Fabien and placed in many of the events also.
Full competition results can be found here
