Johnny Lee
Jenna Chalmers
Johnny Lee is the founding member of The San Francisco Jitterbugs, who have performed for over a hundred corporate and Fortune 500 companies for the past nine years. He has over 15 years of ballroom and swing dance training, and has been teaching, competing, and performing for the past 10 years, and has taught locally at many venues. He has been on the cover of magazines, on televised shows and events, full length motion pictures, performed at half time shows for the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders and has held 1st Place titles to many swing competitions. He has taught regularly at some of the nation's largest public Swing Dance events and camps. Johnny is also known for his high energy eye-popping stunts.
Jenna Chalmers has been teaching and performing dance professionally since 1993. She has appeared in music videos, advertisements and commercials, and films such as the Sony TriStar's "The Thirteenth Floor," and in the indie film "Swing." She has performed with the Brian Setzer Orchestra and the Manhattan Transfer, and has worked with GAP, Hewlett-Packard, Macys, and Pixar Animation Studios. Jenna has choreographed for Bay City Boogie, The Decobelles, and Retro Cabaret. She is the vice-president for a non-profit organization dedicated to the education and promotion of American dance forms and has appeared on TV and National Public Radio as an expert in the field. Jenna has trained, competed, and judged internationally; including the National Lindy Hop Championships, Swing for Choice, Blast from the Past, and the World Swing Championships in London.
Together, Johnny and Jenna teach at Tuesday Night Jump! in San Francisco to sold out Collegiate Shag classes. Not only do you learn how to shag, but also experience a night out of dressing up and dancing to live music with a cocktail in your hand. Johnny and Jenna will be teaching again at the 9:20 Special in 2008. For upcoming Special Extensions classes check the calendar »
