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Mastering 8- and 6-count Moves in Lindy Hop
When you get a hold of how 6- and 8-count steps can work together in the music, you’ll be able to piece those steps together fluidly.
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When you get a hold of how 6- and 8-count steps can work together in the music, you’ll be able to piece those steps together fluidly.
A critical skill that every dancer needs in their arsenal is understanding the importance of musical phrasing and being able to create within the framework.
This blog post is an extension of our previous post: Empowering Followers in Lindy Hop. We talked about a lot of important philosophical ideas in that post. Now we’d like to get into the nitty-gritty and talk about what’s possible in the dance. There are two kinds of responsibility: personal responsibility partnered responsibilities PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITIES…
Photo by Dan Erez, taken at the Sofia Swing Dance Festival There are a lot of different views of what Leading and Following in Lindy Hop are all about. How should the Follower’s role really work? Are Leaders “in charge” within the dance or is that a limited way of thinking? It’s not just…
Cover photography by Sergey Shirokov How much Charleston do you regularly include in your social dancing? As with most music and movement, what comes in and out of vogue is cyclical. Depending on how long you’ve been in the scene, you’ve experienced multiple trends in the dance. You may have even gone through revisiting some…
How’s your solo jazz? No, really. Sometimes people think that doing a few Boogie Backs and Fall off the Log for one song during a class warm-up is enough, like a Lindy Hop checkbox you’re “supposed to” tick without really emphasizing its’ value. You might feel like you can get by in your Lindy Hop…
No Partner? No Problem! Want to improve as a dancer, but don’t have a dance partner? Do you feel like it’s challenging to work on your own dancing solo? We get it, not everyone has a dance partner, and even if you do, it can be hard to find the time and space to practice…