BUSINESS

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

"I invited Joo-Lee from Lindy Jazz to be a Guest Speaker at Newcastle College Performance Academy in March 2010 to speak to first year Foundation Degree students on the Event Management course.  I lecture on two modules, Principals in Event Management and Funding and Income Streams.

 

Having previously worked with Joo-Lee I knew she would be an ideal speaker given her experience in Event Management and delivery and teaching experience.  Lindy Jazz as a SME is an ideal model to illustrate to the students how to set up your own business and make it a success as Joo-Lee has done with her company. 

The students had a really good experience, learning some dance which proved to be a really good ice breaker and a great way to engage the students.  One student who is new to the Group, and particularly shy,  thanked Joo-Lee as the session had helped to introduce her to the Group and as a result of this she was invited to lunch with some of the Group and she is also very keen to do a work placement with Joo-Lee.  It was very beneficial for the students to meet a working professional from the event industry and get an insight into real life business.

 

I would highly recommend Lindy Jazz for to participate in any company events."

Sandra Chapman, Lecturer, Newcastle College Performance Academy

 "Joo-Lee has in depth knowledge of dance with fantastic people skills. However you are feeling at the beginning of a session you always feel happier at the end with a sense of achievement.
I would recommend Joo-Lee as an excellent team builder getting people to interact and working together towards a common goal."

Wayne Monk, Partner, Gelders Bakery, Sunderland

"I decided to set up a Dance section of the Procter & Gamble Sports & Social Club to offer something new and exciting for Procter & Gamble employees. With such a range of dance styles to offer, it was hard to know where to begin. Having learnt Lindy Hop, Charleston, Blues, Balboa and Shim Sham through Lindy Jazz with Joo-Lee, Andy and a variety of their guest and assistant teachers, I knew that Lindy Jazz would be a successful, fun and positive debut to the section. The ethos behind Lindy Jazz’s teaching is clear: encourage people to have fun, meet new people and gain lots of confidence through learning to dance in a relaxed and social atmosphere. The passion and organisation that goes into each class given is apparent and who can help but laugh at all of Joo-Lee’s accidental double-entendres?

 

Lindy Jazz has proven to be an extremely great beginning to Procter & Gamble Dancing and I have heard so much complimentary feedback from members of the classes – everyone has noticed Lindy Jazz’s warm, friendly and personalised approach to dance tuition, and I know that after offering some more dance styles in coming months to our employees, I will be inviting Joo-Lee and her teaching partner back to share the Charleston with us all. I can’t wait! Thank you very much Lindy Jazz: you’ve created a brilliant ‘first impression’ for the Dance section of this Social Club."

Vicci Tarry, Consumer Relations, Procter & Gamble UK

“I was skeptical of dancing lessons and didn’t know what to expect as there are so many different types however to be honest my first taster to Lindy hop at Procter & Gamble Sports & Social Club was great! It’s fun, energetic and I couldn’t stop smiling even when trying to remember some of my moves. The instructors were fantastic and this was obvious with the enthusiasm of the followers & leaders participating.
 
It was a nice end to the working day and I am already looking forward to next week’s lessons"

Stuart Peacock, Hewlett-Packard

"Woodhorn booked Lindy-Jazz to perform on August Bank Holiday Monday as our major exhibition at the time was about Northumberland during WWII. The period music and dancing displays brought the exhibition theme and the museum site to life in a fun, friendly and accessible way. Lindy-Jazz were very professional to work with, and I would recommend them wholeheartedly. We were particularly impressed with how the group engaged with our visitors, spending time chatting with them about the music and dancing alongside their impressive performances."
 

Liz Ritson, Exhibitions and Events Officer, Woodhorn QEII Country Park

I thought your interactive dance session was fabulous. It was new, innovative, enjoyable, broke down barriers very quickly and got people talking. However, my initial thoughts were very negative, it was not something that I wanted to get involved in and I could not see any value in “dancing”. Oh, how quickly I changed my mind! I believe that this is something that you should be promoting.

Bryan Burke, BKB-Consultancy

I think we were quite brave to do this and took a risk with it, but it paid off and by the end of the session everyone was smiling and laughing together, having swapped business info and learned a few steps in the process.  Most interesting was the way people were actually 'up for it' - it was great fun and that it worked really well as an ice-breaker.

Judith Peacock, Further Consultancy

I would like to thank you and Andy for your wonderful presentation of the Lindy Hop Blues dance at our Equality Awards on Friday. The dance, which was beautifully executed, lent atmosphere to the occasion and was extremely well received.  I would certainly be more than pleased to recommend you for any such event, thank you again. 

Liz Reay, Chief Executive, Equality North East

Just a note to say thanks to you and your dancers for Friday night - all the feedback tells me it was rockin' in there!

Lisa Vickers, Events and Communications Manager, Women Into the Network (WIN)

When launching a new venture you need it to be a very memorable event for your guests and to be a success. We started off the Launch of DCM Durham with a wonderful, vibrant social networking session ran by Joo-Lee, this turned out to be the best decision we made.
Joo-Lee ran the session with sheer professionalism whilst  managing to relax and engage our guests . The feedback from our guests on the day was that although no one was sure about dancing, once they got started they wanted more....some even talked about going along to the Lindy Jazz events, they enjoyed it so much. So thank you Joo-Lee and Andy for a Launch that will be remembered for a long time.

Maccine Hall, Dual Concept Marketing (Durham) Ltd

"Thank you so much for joining me last night at the Network Fizz Into Life event.  I do hope you enjoyed the event as much as I did!  I've been 'charlestoning' around the office this morning!  So thanks to Joo-Lee and Rumana for giving me the fizz I needed!"

Janice Ross, Network Northeast Chair

"Many many thanks to you and Andy for running such a superb day and night of events!  I know that those participating really enjoyed themselves and I have had a lot of good comments about the Friday night.   I appreciated all your efficient management of everything and hope that we can work together again."

Louise Butler, Exfactor Limited