Tiny Bunch

For those of you who are in the dark about who "Tiny Bunch" is, here is the update. Tiny Bunch is a new swing dance "team" here in Atlanta. They formed as a one-time deal for a team competition last month in Nashville (which I couldn't attend), and then since decided that it would be fun to continue as a group. That's where I come in. We had our first meeting a couple weeks ago and made the "rules" and "ideals" of the group (aka "the family"), and we had our first post competition performance on Friday night. After just a few hours of rehearsal, we all learned the lindy chorus routine and performed it twice over the weekend. The first time was Friday at the Emory Swing Club dance, and even though we all knew it, we botched it a bit with each couple apparently making a couple mistakes. We had fun anyway though. Sunday we did the routine "perfectly" (at least, as good as we could get it) for a high school group who LOVED it. We gave them a bit of history of the dance and taught them a bit, but we were just thrilled we got the whole routine! This is the first time I have done anything like this, and I am looking forward to getting over my fear of performing, and having some fun while I'm at it. The people in Tiny Bunch are awesome, and I can't wait to do more together!

This is the tiny bunch catch phrase:

The "second string" is a phenomenon as old as competition itself. Not everybody can be an astronaut; every Dumb needs its Dumber. The Tiny Bunch is a ragtag company of drinking friends with a dancing problem, who have been marginalized, rejected, and passed over—and for good reason. But what others have in training, talent, and technical ability, we more than make up for in alliteration. Always stress free, we take dignity, modesty, and irony to new heights. We dance like no one's watching and hope that is, in fact, the case.

We are...the mighty...Tiny...Bunch.

oh, if you're wondering, Tiny Bunch is a famous dancer from the 30's when Lindy Hop was first "invented", who was anything but tiny. The name kind of compliments the other (and original) Atlanta Lindy Hop team: Big George. But like we said. We're happy to be second.