Joe Jackson
Owner, Swing Dance Instructor
joe@hotclubofdurham.com
Private Lessons
Joe is currently working on his spelling and grammar skills in preparation for writing this bio. Meanwhile, check out this incriminating picture of him…
Cliff Dyer
Swing Dance Instructor
cliff@hotclubofdurham.com
Private Lessons
Cliff Dyer started swing dancing in 2006, when he got dragged to a dance by a friend while he was living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was immediately hooked, and since then, has hardly gone a week without dancing. He has a great love for the arts of connection and physical communication, which he has been playing with in one form or another since studying Aikido from 1996 to 2000.
Cliff has taught private and group lessons in Lindy Hop, Balboa, and Charleston in Durham, Albuquerque, and El Paso. He has competed at the Harvest Moon Melee, and the Eastern Balboa Championship, both in 2007. In 2008, he won third place in the Strictly Balboa competition at Lindy Focus, dancing with Laura Windley. Above all, he believes dancing should be (and is) fun.
Chris Wells
Swing Dance Instructor
chris@hotclubofdurham.com
Private Lessons
Having attained a 93.5% level of bad-ass, Chris continues his yearly pilgrimages to lindy hop mecca Herrang, Sweden each year. Additionally, Chris is the most well-educated dancer in the area on swing-era jazz, his chosen specialty in his Musicology program at UNC. Chris is famous for helping dancers put more “bork” in their swing outs.
Kristy Milliken
Swing Dance Instructor
Kristy “Golden Toes” Milliken recently came to us from a far-off and mysterious land far to the west known in legends as “Nasheville.” Prophets have told of her coming for quite some time, one of the most famous writings on the subject comes to us through the ages by an anonymous source. It reads:
“And lo, when thine time of need is greatest, there shall come a shining beacon from the west. She will gift thee with the golden music from the kithara of Apollo, and the deft and dexterous feed of Hermes himself.”
You can’t argue with that.