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Rhythm: Our Birthright

about LaurieAnn , children dancing , dance videos , Lindy Hop , music for dance , rhythm , teaching dance

I’ve shown this video in a previous blog, but It so perfectly illustrates my point that just have to show it again: [embedplusvideo height=”388″ width=”640″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/Ibg9gM” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/to7uIG8KYhg?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=to7uIG8KYhg&width=640&height=388&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep5172″ /] Rhythm and Dance are our Birthright I believe that human beings are born with an innate sense of rhythm. I believe that as we […]

Men Dancing in Heels

Connecting Socially , Dance History , dance videos , inspirational dancing , Lindy Hop , performance dance , same sex dancing , social dancing

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 […]

Lindy in Ho Chi Minh Park

dancing in the streets , Lindy Hop , Outdoor Dancing , social dancing

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. […]

Nothing New Under the Dance Sun!

Dance History , dance videos , inspirational dancing , Lindy Hop , performance dance , teaching dance

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 […]

Dance is The International Language

Connecting Socially , social dancing

I heard this statement and I realized that in my experience it’s true. For 8 years I spent 4 weeks every summer at an international dance camp in Sweden with dancers from over 50 different countries. All we had in common was our love of dance. Most of the other students spoke enough […]

More Fusion Dance: Lindy and Balboa

Connecting Socially , Dance History , dance videos , fusion , Lindy Hop , Miscellaneous , music for dance , social dancing

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 […]

Switching the Lead and Follow in Partner Dancing

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Switching the Lead and Follow in Partner Dance When both partners know how to lead as well as follow, dancers can switch roles during a dance. This is truly the ideal solution for people who are worried about sexism in the roles of lead and follow, but not everyone wants to learn both parts. Yes, […]

Leading Vs Bullying in Partner Dance

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A New Year’s Eve dance included a brief dance lesson for people who didn’t know how to do a basic waltz step. The instructor kept making a big deal about how the men should be leading even though he gave no instruction in how to lead, or follow for that matter. “Who’s the boss on […]

Favorite Dance Teachers From My Past

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The wonderful video at the end of this post from 1995 inspired me to write about these dancers because they were both a huge influence in my early dancing years. Sylvia Sykes was my teacher for the first six years I studied Lindy Hop and she, along with her partner Jonathan Bixby, also introduced […]

How Can You Tell One Swing Dance from Another?

dance videos , Lindy Hop , social dancing , west coast swing

Swing is a broad category that includes many different dances. If you’re a novice, it’s hard enough telling completely different genres apart let alone the variations in one category. And as if that wasn’t confusing enough, there are different styles within the same dance! I’m going to keep it relatively simple in this post, […]

Inspirational Jean Veloz dances like a teenager at 87

cutting in , Dance History , dance videos , dancing in the golden years , inspirational dancing , Lindy Hop , social dancing

Back to my theme of older dancers who inspire us with their perpetual youth (I know they’re not the norm, but they sure are fun to read about!) I have to talk about one of my personal favorites, Jean Veloz. Jean was a popular example of the smooth lindy style popularized by dancers like Dean […]

More Fusion Dance!

Connecting Socially , Dance History , dance videos , leading and following , Lindy Hop , performance dance , social dancing , tap dance

In my last post about fusion dance I wrote about hip hop and swing. A friend of mine just posted a video of a fusion between Swing and Tap, so I wanted to comment on that as well as on the Swango phenomenon that I’ll address in another post. Lindy Hop has its roots in […]

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