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Performed by: Jordan Frisbee and Melissa Rutz

Number: “Uptown Funk” Strictly Swing Champions

Choreographers: Improvised by: Jordan Frisbee and Melissa Rutz

Style: West Coast Swing

From: The US Open Swing Dance Championships 2014

#west coast swing #daily dance video #jordan frisbee #melissa rutz

Aerial hoop dance to “Missed Me” by The Dresden Dolls.

This may be my favorite aerial routine of all time. It’s so deeply rhythmic and connected to the song in a way that aerial rarely is.

#aerial dance #aerial hoop #daily dance video

dancenerdcity

Just watch how Sylvia moves through space. And also watch her feet. And how she uses her legs. Um, everything.

:37 Basics with triples. #theywokeuplikethis #flawless

Inspiration Weekend - Fullerton, CA, USA - 2015

#daily dance video #balboa #bal-swing #sylvia sykes

danceoftheday

Performed by: Julia Wahl

Number: “Na Na”

Style: Pole Dancing

From: “Pole Dance - Nana by Trey Songz” (2014)

#daily dance video #pole dance

yourfellowclassmate

7.6.13 Dance Shoes

I dropped by a shoe cobbler today and slid a pair of Keds across his counter to get sueded bottoms. He lifted up the shoes, put them back on the counter and said, “What do you want this trash for?" He then went on to tell me that becoming a better dancer is by dancing in heels— not flats; they apparently help posture and force the need to balance, which causes the dancer to adapt and improve. After listening to him talk I told him that I have a pair of Remix wedges, and he called those trash too! I guess shoe makers are a picky bunch due to their craft. In any case, I think I’ll try dancing in my wedges again. They’re just so damn fast, though. Does anyone know how to slow down leather bottoms?

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Funny how they never tell guys to dance in heels to improve their dancing as leads...

Jordan Frisbee & Tatiana Mollmann performing a freestyle West Coast Swing demonstration at Nuroc - Best of the Best 2012

This is the kind of thing I want to show Lindy Hoppers who think that West Coast Swing is "ballroom" or dancing with a stick up your butt :p

#West Coast Swing #daily dance video #jordan frisbee #Tatiana Mollmann

Today's article (Part 1) explains the traditional approach to connection/partnering and establishes 10 huge problems with this approach.

#lindy hop #Partner Dancing #dance connection

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Swinginparis 2013 - sunday Teachers Jam with Gordon Webster and Friends (by Eric Esquivel) One of the best teacher jam videos I’ve seen in a while.

lindyfox

dude Ramona is awesome

#lindy hop #daily dance video #jam session

A few years ago at The Experiment I had a conversation with a follow who said that while she felt like an equal partner in her marriage, she did not feel like an equal partner in dancing. My experience dancing with a significant number of follows is that they view the dance as if their part is somehow less important or requires less attention than leading does. While I have been aware of this issue for years, it has recently occurred to me that some of this attitude could result from the passive language that is often used in teaching follows, especially at early stages.

#lindy hop #partner dancing #dance connection #dance instruction #gender

danceoftheday

Thanks, KH!

Performed by: Sebastian Arce and Mariana Montes

Number: “Milonga 2"

Choreographers: Not choreographed, but improvised by Sebastian Arce and Mariana Montes

Style: Argentine Tango

From: Frostbite Tango: Helsinki International Argentine Tango Festival 2012

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While this performance is full of flashy tricks, it's also got cool footwork variations by both dancers. Milonga is a distinct style of music that predates Tango, and Milonga the dance has many of the same movements as Tango but a different style.

#argentine tango #milonga #daily dance video

ohyeahswingdance

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ohyeahswingdance:

The other day, someone on BQoTD brought up the issue of body types, and how being read as fat means that you will not be asked as much.

Among many reasoned, nuanced responses and people writing about their personal experiences with this sort of thing, there were also some people who were like “but I can’t help but be attracted to women who fit the current white, Western ideal of beauty so I just ask them more all things being equal it’s evolution/human nature OK I can’t help it so get off my back"

As we like to say on tumblr

let me explain you a thing

(or two)

Most obviously, finding thinness attractive is not universal. Not by a long shot. (terrible articles but you get the point). And if you think the obsession with thinness is completely unconnected to issues of class or race, you are kidding yourself. It’s not human nature.

OK, you might say, but maybe we are evolutionarily programmed to find attractive what’s considered attractive by our society. So what then?

That may well be the case.

However, this wonderment of evolution (poor evolution. usually drawn on to justify terrible, terrible behaviour) has also wquipped you with a pretty awesome brain that comes with awareness of the self, and the ability to modify your behaviour according to your values as standard configurations (i.e. self control) (I know. Being a human is pretty amazing)

So if you are a) aware that fat followers are less likely to get dances, all other things being equal, b) you think this is kind of shitty (as you should), and c) you are also aware that you yourself have a tendency to reinforce this, then you can change your behaviour. If you’re at a social dance, you can check in with yourself every once in a while and be like “hey, have my last 13 dances been with skinny followers and have I been asking them when I could have asked someone else?" If the answer is yes, you can then go ask those people.

It really isn’t all that difficult.

By the way, no one is asking you to will yourself into finding people attractive you could never see yourself finding attractive (Unless you’re gay, as some people unfortunately still believe in conversion therapy. Those therapists might be asking you to do so. I’m not down with that).

What I am asking you to do is to use your self awareness and ability to change your behaviour to make the dance community a better, more welcoming place for everyone.

#lindy hop #fat acceptance

"Spread the Rhythm," another very Seattle video from the Jazz Dance Music Video Contest. Makes me nostalgic. In one of the shots you can see into the lobby of the office where I used to work. At 0:50 Bobby is dancing in front of the Smith Tower, the tallest building west of the Mississippi when it was completed in 1914.

Primary dancer: Bobby Bonsey

Producers: Aaron Anderson, Celeste Olds

#lindy hop #vernacular jazz #seattle #daily dance video

tonightweredrinkingfromthebong

The famous lindy-hop scene from Olsen and Johnson’s Hellzapoppin’ (1941).

Featuring Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers (a.k.a. the Harlem Congaroo Dancers) and choreography by Frankie Manning.

“It’s hard to believe it dates from 1941: it makes all subsequent movie dance routines look anaemic by comparison. The routine is so wild and abandoned it’s hard to believe it’s happening in real time and hasn’t been sped-up. The ferocity with which the dancers are propelled like projectiles by the leads in a series of ever-more improbable aerial moves seems, to the modern sensibility, to be not only politically incorrect but borderline illegal.” (source)

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Rule number 1

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Always reblog

#lindy hop #vernacular jazz #whitey's lindy hoppers #frankie manning

Chicho Frúmboli and Juana Sepúlveda, improvised performance.

The underarm turns in this video are characteristic of Tango Nuevo; traditional Argentine Tango has no break-away from closed position. Some really impressive colgada tricks, too. Audience members yelling "esa!" or "esta!" are literally saying "that," and figuratively saying "yeah, just like that!"

#argentine tango #daily dance video #tango