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Best floors for Lindy Hop Slides!

Connecting Socially , dance videos , inspirational dancing , Lindy Hop , performance dance , social dancing

Swing dancing has a wide range of styles because it’s a street dance, constantly changing with the creativity of the dancers.  Slides are tricky steps.  They’re not that common, due to the difficulty in executing them properly.  You’ll only see them performed by advanced dancers, and they’re always show stoppers.  If you’re a bay area […]

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Another Dance Controversy: Hip Hop Crews on Trains

about LaurieAnn , dance videos , dancing in the streets , Hip Hop , inspirational dancing , Outdoor Dancing , performance dance

  The other day on BART, three young hip hop dancers looking like street thugs started dancing and passing a hat.  They weren’t great, but they weren’t bad either.  And they were doing something joyful that took skill and not a little hard work and practice, for the pleasure of onlookers.  For money, yes, but […]

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Fusion in Performance Dance

Classical Dance , Dance History , dance videos , fusion , Hip Hop , inspirational dancing , Lindy Hop , performance dance

I’ve written before about partner dancers combining styles, but performance dancers do it too.  Some years ago I spent 8 Julys  in Sweden studying the European partner jazz dance Boogie Woogie   My favorite teacher, Christer Isberg, was the best all around dancer I’d ever seen.  It seemed he could do anything.  His background included classical […]

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