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.