Midori Asakura & Chad Fasca

 

Midori Asakura and Chad Fasca teach Lindy Hop classes and special workshops at Sandra Cameron Dance Center in New York City. The couple began dancing Lindy Hop in 1996 and have been partners since 1998.

They studied Lindy Hop under Frankie Manning, Paul Grecki and Steven Mitchell. Midori also studied Tap with the late "Godfather of Tap" Chuck Green, Barbara Duffy, Herve Le Goff and Bettye Morrow.

Midori and Chad dance and teach several different styles of Lindy Hop, including Savoy, Dean Collins and Smooth. They are known for their originality, musicality and footwork and for developing their own style called LindyHoofin, which mixes Lindy Hop partnering with Tap syncopation. They are especially proud that LindyHoofin won an award from Yehoodi.com, the website of New York's Lindy Hop community.

Television, Film and Stage Credits

Among their performance credits dancing as a couple, Midori and Chad were featured on television as principal dancers in American Movie Classics' one-hour special, "AMC Swings with the Cherry Poppin' Daddies."

As part of the New York Swing Dance Society's performance troupe, The Big Apple Lindy Hoppers, Midori and Chad also performed at Radio City Music Hall (opening for Tony Bennett), Frankie Manning's 85th birthday celebration at the Roseland Ballroom, and Irving Plaza as well as other venerable locations.

Press and Writing Credits

In print, Midori has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine in a photo spread, in Life Magazine's 1998 Year in Pictures and in the New York Times dancing with Frankie Manning. Most recently, she appears on the cover of Lincoln Center's 2003 Midsummer Night Swing program. Not as photogenic, Chad has appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Chad has written about Lindy Hop for Dance Spirit magazine and The Ballroom Review.