Swing-Out

As I said in my last post:

There are very few perks to working retail in a bad economy, yet they do exist. One of them is that you occasionally get a full Saturday off, so this weekend I went Ceili and swing dancing, which included a Lindy Hop workshop. Yay for last minute plans and 8 hours of dancing!

{ ceili post here }

 

After the Ceili I met some friends for dinner and headed to the Lindy workshop, where we learned the most basic Lindy step. Swing dancing has been more of a hit-and-miss with whether I really enjoy it or not, but this night was fantastic. I was ready for a night of dancing, went with fun friends, and danced with many very good dancers. During the ordinary/open swing dance that evening, most of my partners chose to dance the standard East Coast style, so I hardly had a chance to practice the Lindy that I had learned.

After a while, I asked one of my partners to do some Lindy while we danced to see if I could keep up with him. I was pretty sure of myself.



He only stopped dancing long enough to look at me like I was crazy

Then, between spinning me in, out, left and right, he asked if I realized that, so far as he knew, every time we have ever danced (which isn't that many times), we had been doing Lindy.

Including right then.


Say that again?



What? no! yes?



If you know Lucy, you know what I mean here.


*speechless in embarrassment*

 Then I had to remind him how little I have ever formally been taught. I mostly just try to follow until I start to put the patterns together and can start to 'understand' the feel of it. :-D

So this is Lindy? I felt so ridiculous for not having recognized it! It was so obvious! It will be good to take the lessons and learn to do it correctly if I get another chance, but...

... in the meantime it's good to know I already know something.

Wouldn't you agree?

 

For your viewing pleasure: my favorite youtube swing routine. I love watching this couple; they make the dancing so fun, casual, and effortless. This dance, to Moses Supposes, is particularly cute! They're not doing Lindy hop, but Jitterbug, which I think is the same as East Coast style.

And as a bonus: this video of the Nicholas Brothers when they were very young, which I found through searching for dance videos. I like it better than any of the fancier routines from when they were older!