Jodi will be hosting some Balboa Practice sessions.

Jodi was pretty much born listening to swing music, since her father was a multi-instrumentalist Jazz musician who jammed on a star-spangled band stand in their playroom! She began DJing in 2018 at the Balboa Experiment, after twenty years of swing dancing. Since then, she has DJ’d at M.I.T., the Balboa Speakeasy, Hop to the Beat, and JP Swings—as well as for many online events and fundraisers, including Paul Riding’s Global Online Social. Recently, she was a Spotlight DJ for a clarinet set with the online Swing DJ Relay. Her taste leans towards an “in the pocket” old-school groove, with a passion for Basie’s sidemen, Benny Goodman’s small groups, Anita O’Day, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and Oscar Peterson. But as a Balboa dancer, she knows how to up the tempo, too! Mainly, she just loves watching people have a great time dancing to her tunes.

Have you seen the movie Sinners yet? Joel Domoe (he/him) identifies with Remmick. Ask him about it or ask him to watch the movie with you if you haven’t seen it yet.

Joel has been a community builder through Swing Dance since 1997, the year he gave his first presentation/lesson/performance in the cafe of the Borders Books Store in Greensboro, North Carolina. That event snowballed into the establishment of Supermurgatroid Productions, INC, co-owned by Joel and Dave Stewart. Joel’s current project (since 2023) is SupermurgaNati!, a partnership with Delaan Sumler based in Cincinnati, Ohio. SupermurgaNati! produces a thrice yearly event called SwouZy Blues. If you are near Cincinnati, Ohio on the weekends of MLK Day, Memorial Day, or Labor Day, check it out. You won’t be disappointed. Joel is also currently one of four owners of Blues Dance Cincinnati.

Joel is a former Virginia State Open Jitterbug Champion and Southeastern Regional Lindy Hop Champion. He has served as Competition Coordinator and/or Head Judge for the American Lindy Hop Championships (Stamford, CT), Lindy Focus (Asheville, NC), and Beantown Camp (Boston, MA) multiple times. Joel has taught classes at many other events. He is humbly grateful for the many opportunities he has had with so many communities.

Joel is a founding and honorary lifetime member of the Piedmont Swing Dance Society in Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina and was a founding member and first president of the Atlanta Swing Era Dance Association. He has founded and directed three different Swing Dance Troupes: Bums and Bombshells (Greensboro, NC), Heavens to Murgatroid! (Atlanta, GA), and The Cinci SnapShots (Cincinnati, OH). In Cincinnati, among other things Joel served as a co-producer of SwinGallery (Cincinnati’s longest running weekly swing dance event) from 2006-2016.

When Joel DJs, as with any other role he fills, he focuses on the community of that specific moment. He wants to strengthen the bonds within that community by providing spaces for its many voices and also by challenging the community a little with some ideas they may not have considered previously. Joel believes that strengthening a community inherently means raising awareness and celebrating the culture and history from which it comes and that starts with the man in the mirror.

Peter will be co-hosting the Soul Party on Monday late night in The Hill. The Soul Party is always a camp highlight and you don’t want to miss it!

Samuel will be co-hosting the Soul Party on Monday late night in The Hill. The Soul Party is always a camp highlight and you don’t want to miss it!

Shelby Johnson is a self-proclaimed music snob, who fell in love with jazz at an early age listening to the sounds of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. He really fell in love with swing music in the 6th grade thanks to a music appreciation class, and later started playing jazz in the 8th grade after 3 years in band as a drummer and percussionist. In high school, Shelby started playing the vibraphone and would transpose his parts for most pieces, as many pieces didn’t provide written music. This developed Shelby’s ear for music that was a huge catalyst for him catching the swing dance bug in 2011 in Orlando, Florida. And BOI, what kind of journey that has started! 2 years later, Shelby became one of the premier DJs in the Southeast, being featured at exchanges in Florida and South Carolina. In 2013 Shelby moved to Dallas, TX, where he continues to deliver awesome syncopated tunes for Lindy Hop, Charleston, Balboa and Collegiate Shag. Shelby’s passion for social dancing, teaching and competing landed him the 2016 Frankie Manning Ambassador Scholarship to Herrang Dance Camp where he expanded his knowledge on Jazz Dance and Music History. Now Shelby is back in Columbus, OH ready to continue bringing people groovy and rhythmic tunes to dance their best to.

Shelby will be the Competition DJ this year.