Paulette Brockington

           

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Dance as if no one is watching.
Sing as if no one is listening.
Love as if you have never been hurt.
                      --Mark Twain

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Paulette with Jon Ross, her teaching partner in her Lindy Hop, An Open Class instructional video.

SOME OF PAULETTE'S MOST POPULAR CLASSES

Dancing to Blues Music

Partnering

Swingtrottin’

Syncopations and Breaks

Dancing  Lindy to Contemporary Music

Salsa Step By Step

Salsa Meets Swing

West Coast Swing

African Rhythms Meet Swing

East Meets West

Ballroom

Concert dance styles

Tap

Jazz

Modern Ballet

Modern

Ethnic

Swop

Zumba certified

Shim Sham

Big Apple

Madison

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Paulette Brockington, winner of the 2004 World Swing Dance Championships West Coast Swing Jack and Jill, 2000 World Fast Dance Championships and 2000 Virginia State Open Swing Dance Championships Open Hustle Jack and Jill competitions to name a few, is a director/choreographer, dancer and actress who has had roles in feature and industrial films, television and radio commercials, and many stage productions.

 Paulette was a Fulbright Award nominee by the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars to Kenya in Theater. She has been a member of and/or guest artist with modern dance companies, ballet companies, acting companies and opera companies. She is a versatile performer able to perform in modern dance, ballet, jazz, tap, ballroom, ethnic dance and swing. An active artist-in-residence and workshop teacher, she has choreographed and performed receiving honors/awards and grants for her work.

 A commission to choreograph a dance work set in the Swing Era ultimately led her to Frankie Manning, an original member of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers who were based at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, for private study in the Lindy Hop and other dances of the period. This led to an introduction to the world of competitive ballroom dance. She is well-versed in a variety of swing dance styles and is an active swing dance competitor, coach and judge.

She has been a leading force in the development of swing dance in the Great Lakes area as a teacher, dancer and competitor. She has had the honor of partnering Frankie Manning on several occasions. He says she is "One of America's premiere dancers." Chazz Young says she puts the "F" in funk.

In addition to training with artists like Uta Hagen, Mikell PInckney, Judith Jamison, Bella Lewitzky, Joel Hall, and Frankie Manning in theater, concert dance and ballroom, Paulette has had the opportunity to work with Skippy Blair.

Paulette has adapted a number of works for the stage including Shakespeare: A Tragedy on Thursday, A Comedy Tonight, A Thousand Cranes, American Beauty and others too numerous to mention. She has developed a swing dance version of the popular Nutcracker Ballet, is the author of and teaches in the video Lindy Hop, An Open Class and writer of a number of articles and
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Far better it is, To dare mighty things, To win glorious triumphs, Even though checkered with failure. then to live in that grey twilight, that knows neither victory nor defeat. - (apply to dance contests) Theodore Roosevelt      

Article for the U.S. Open website                                                       

I think anybody, anybody that wants to join our military right now
and abide by that code of conduct should be kissed on the mouth and  thanked, including convicts. I say put psychopaths in. Who wouldn't  want Hannibal Lector. I'd take 50,000. Say 'Look over there. That's a buffet. Have all you can eat....'
                                                         - Jason Alexander, actor

Give me a bucket of Chicken and a Count Basie record and I can solve the Palestinian problem.  - Norma Miller

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. - FDR

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole
staircase, just take the first step.~ Dr. Martin Luther King
 

       You will find Paulette teaching:

Zumba - Mondays through the first week in June in Macomb & Thursdays through the first week in June in Birmingham

Classes in Ballroom and Swing start Tuesdays & Thursdays in Warren the last week in June

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Paulette with Frankie Manning at 1999's March Madness


Hiphoplindy.com interview
 

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.  -  Martha Graham
 

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Read Strutters Quarterly 1
Read Strutters Quarterly 2

I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.   -   Mae West
 

Read Swing Dancer magazine article

To thy own self be true and it shall follow as the night the day that thou canst not then be false to any man.
              - Shakespeare