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To Dance With Abandon! On the heels of my Dance Walking posts, I couldn’t resist commenting on this wonderful video. People with Down Syndrome can teach us a lot about dancing with abandon. Dance: The Embodiment of Joy I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: dance is the embodiment of joy. If I […]
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Dancing in Your Wildest Imagination I can’t stop thinking about the Dance Walk Guru’s story. Can you image how it would feel to be so at peace with yourself that you choose to dance down the street with abandon for the pure joy of it, without a worry about what people might think of the […]
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A Dance Movement After All! Well it seems I spoke too soon when I qualified in my last post that Dance Walking was not really a movement but I hoped it would catch on. Apparently it has indeed become a movement and is gathering momentum all over the world as we speak. What fabulous […]
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How to start a dance craze Well, OK, not exactly a craze yet, but I’d love to see this catch on. The really amazing thing about it is that instead of avoiding a guy doing something weird in public, people are joining in. Lots of them. And it looks like the ones who aren’t are […]
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I’ve often heard it said that in their dance routines Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did except she did it backwards and in heels. It’s a popular comment, except of course she didn’t lead and she didn’t choreograph the dance. She did, however, dance in heels and had the bleeding feet to […]
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Out Door Dancing Around the World For the past 16 years I’ve been spending my Sundays dancing Lindy Hop in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Ours was the first regular outdoor Lindy event , and over the years many other versions have popped up in other parts of the county and around the world. […]
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Stealing Dance Moves Creative dance has always been about stealing. Dancers get ideas from each other and make it their own. After you steal the idea, you change it to suit your own style and it no longer belongs to the dancer who inspired you. The First Lindy Hop Air Step Frankie Manning used […]
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Continued from previous post: People started asking us if we were doing some new state of the art disco partner dance and if we were teachers. That was the seed of an idea to start teaching dance. This was the time of a wonderful bay area phenomenon called the free university. Anyone could teach any […]
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Most musicians don’t dance. Have you noticed that? It’s so common that we really notice when they do. Maybe it’s because they’re always on stage when everyone else is dancing, but that doesn’t explain the ones who do. Cab Calloway not only danced while playing but also was a trend setter who’s style has […]
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Of all the fusion dances, Bal/Lindy is probably the most natural. Almost everyone who knows both dances has done them together on occasion if not regularly. Pure balboa is done in a close hold that never breaks, but almost everyone does Bal-swing and calls it Balboa. This isn’t fusion, but rather a street dance that […]
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What’s the most romantic thing you can do on this day of romance? Well, yeah, go dancing of course! And if you don’t know how to dance? Well, if you’re a guy who’s with a woman who loves to dance, then take her out for a romantic dinner and give her a gift certificate for […]
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In last week’s post about obnoxious dance partners I neglected to mention that lack of eye contact doesn’t always come from a swelled head. Sometimes it’s a sign of shyness and it’s hard to tell the difference. One year at a dance camp in Sweden I asked a man to dance. I was watching […]
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