Joseph Sewell

Joseph is currently one of the UK’s leading dance teachers and educators of African American dances such as the Lindy Hop, Charleston, Cake Walk, Blues and Authentic Jazz, inspiring people in over 30 countries, with his passion, fun, high energy classes featuring unique history and culture discussions. Starting out as a Jazz Funk, African dancer and Rapper in the 1970’s, then Hip Hop, Dubstep, Dance Hall and Blues Dancing in the 1980’s, he then embraced Lindy Hop and other swing dances in the 1990s. For over 30 years he’s been continually learning, mentored by and teaching with Savoy Ballroom legends such as Norma Miller, Frankie Manning, Barbara Billups, Sugar Sullivan, Sonny Allen, plus later legends Chazz Young, Chester Whitmore etc With a passion for history, he founded the FB group ‘Swingopedia’ to share knowledge freely and has been hired as vintage specialist & choreographer for Channel 4, BBC TV and Radio and vintage dance advisor in Tyler Perry’s Netflix movie 6888.