Michael Jagger (Dancer) has been an international Lindy Hop instructor for 16 years. His stage credits include South Pacific (associate choreographer, Chichester Festival Theater, UK) and two consecutive appearances at Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Festival with his dance company, Syncopated City, which he co-directed with his dance partner, Evita Arce. They were featured dancers for Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in Let Freedom Swing, a celebration of jazz for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the Kennedy Center and again with the J @ LCO for a tribute to Benny Goodman at the Rose Theater in NYC. As a principal dancer, he starred as Lindy Hop specialist in several productions of the Broadway musical Swing!, including regional productions at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, the California Music Circus in Sacramento, and a 2008 Japanese tour. He would like to acknowledge his mentors, the Elders, and Karolina for all that they have afforded him to be on this stage!