

Pre-requisite: Dancing at an Intermediate level of one style of dance or more. Moves taught will be adaptable to virtually all social dance. When you understand how something works, it can carry into all your dance. This is where you more fully understand how things work at a higher level, get hands-on experience and move into the oh-so-lovely nitty gritty of making dance an ever more magical endeavor. Instructors will cover two dance theory concepts a night found in typical social dances addressing leading, following and the connection that makes thing work and then provide plenty of time to practice with moves you likely know (they will quickly teach these if you don’t) to implement these ideas. | Polka | Swing | Tango | Waltz | West Coast Swing | Zydeco GENERAL Int/Adv Connection Theory & Practice The Imperial, St.Here are the classes we offer - singles and couples are always welcome in any class!.Carolina Jitterbug: predecessor to Carolina Shag?.Bugg and Double Bugg: Swedish swing dance.

Wikipedia:Blues dance (not technically swing dancing, but is part of the swing culture).The definition of the Blues Aesthetic was created from the combined agreement of the books and authors below (and supported by many more): Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance by Marshall Winslow Stearns Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance by Jacqui Malone Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture by Katrina Hazzard-Gordon A relaxed, lazy element to the interaction with the tempo and beats of a song, as if it doesn't matter if you are late, but somehow without seeming to rush always being on time. The sense of moving through molasses or mud. A drawing of the beats, dancing in the space between the beats, pushing and pulling creating a sense of tension both in the body and the body moving through space, while remaining loose and relaxed.Improvisation between dancers and on their own movements.Articulated movement in the torso (chest, rib cage, pelvis, butt) identifying and emphasizing different rhythms. Rather than a single rhythm being used in/with the body mutiple meters or rhythms are used. The center of "energy", focus and even weight shifting moves through various parts of the body polycentric. No limb or part is given precedence over another, but they all work together both in a simultaneous and serialized fashion.

SWING DANCE MOVES FOR SINGLE MOVIE
(Transcribed/recreated by Solomon Douglas from the movie for swing dancers) Big Apple: Frankie's choreography from Keep Punching.Music: Dipsy Doodle (East Coast), Gangbusters (Vancouver), Tuxedo Junction.Music: Tuxedo Junction, Tain't what you do (Jimmie Lunceford).Wikipedia:Big Apple (dance)/Little Apple.8 count dance, incorporating kick-ball-changes and hitch steps. Heel Shag: Reconstructed swing dance - leader's footwork is inferred from the follow's as we have no direct knowledge.Tandem Charleston, back Charleston (Frankie Manning bibliography).Styles (archaic terminology): Hollywood, Savoy, Groovy."Swing dancing" is actually a large family of dances. 4 Other Swing Dances and Related Dances.
