Nadge Lebert – Photographer
After seeing the photos posted from her first dance event, Nadege was inspired to bring her camera and try it herself at the next one. And the next one. And…
Alex Glover
Alex started dancing in 2016 and very quickly fell in love with west coast swing. His background as a drummer and a personal trainer helped him with the timing and…
Andrea Byrnes
Andrea (she/her) began studying Lindy Hop in Durham, North Carolina while in graduate school. After moving to Boston in 2014, Andrea dove headfirst into Lindy Hop and the scene here.…
Dawn Blorstad – Chief Judge
Returning to BTP once again as Chief Judge, Dawn brings something special to the competition experience. With 32 years teaching social and competitive dance, and many competitive titles including -…
Amy Diane
Amy Diane – House Manager
Amy brings her skills of organizing, motivating, and wrangling, and customer service wherever needed. Everything she does is focused on creating the best environment for the teachers, the DJs, the…
Dani Mullin Darasz – Contest Coordinator
Dani has been dancing since before she can remember and focused on ballet as a young adult. She dabbled in salsa and a bit of ballroom before finding West Coast…
Alexis Garrish – Contest Coordinator
With thousands of comps under her own belt, Alexis means serious business as co-contest coordinator. She’ll get you lined up and out on the floor in no short order…just remember…
Patricia Lambert – Social Media & General Assistant
Patricia brought her SwingKidz to BTP to celebrate our first year of the scholarship and the end of their year of development..but not the end of her work with young…
Paul Stoddard- ScoreKeeper
Paul has brought the digital revolution to this dance revolution! This is Paul's second year as scorekeeper at BTP, we’ll once again be scoring on iPads, using Paul’s system. Less…
Ariel Peck & Jesse Lopez
Jesse’s Bio: Less of a Unicorn; More of a Mushroom ~ADHD Empowered + Neurologically Evolving~ What I Do: I teach the Body Language of West Coast Swing. I provide Adventurers,…
Dylan Bushe
Dylan joined the west coast swing community in Boston over a decade ago after loving Neal Klein's class at Lesley University. Since then Dylan has supported the local community in…
Shoham Bhadra
Shoham (he/him) has been described as "wholesomely raucous", and that's exactly the energy he brings to his emceeing. He'll make sure you get all the info you need, and have…
Joe Mahoney
Papa Joe has supported the Boston swing community for as long as anyone can remember. :) Besides his favorite Red Sox cap, some of the hats he has worn include…
LaTasha Barnes
Bessie Award winner and New York Times critically acclaimed Breakout Star of 2021 and Best Dance 2021 & 2022 LaTasha Barnes is a multi-hyphenate Tradition-bearer of Black American Social Dance…
