There's no limit to the emotions that music can evoke in us, and likewise no limit to where Blues can take you in your dancing - if only you're ready to let it!įrankie Manning & Dawn Hampton called it slow dancing, Mura Dehn called it Blues dancing. Whether you're dancing with a partner or on your own, Blues is about experiencing the full range of human emotion - love, passion, joy, sadness, pain. Like the film Dirty Dancing, Blues is an 'after-hours' dance, often misunderstood as sexual or 'sleazy', in reality, the real beauty of Blues is in its focus on connection. The lights dim, the heat on the dance floor rises and night creeps slowly towards morning - that's the time for Blues dancing!īlues dancing is slow dance, it has fluid, highly rhythmic and expressive body movements. ![]() Plus access class videos 24/7 from the comfort of your own home and replay them as many times as it takes to really pick up the moves with our Webb membership! FIND OUT MORE The Lindy Hop developed from dances such as the Cakewalk, Ragtime and Charleston along with Authentic Jazz Dance, now known as Jazz Roots, which includes the Big Apple, Shim Sham and Tranky Doo in its family. Nowadays it is very common to hear the term " Swing dance" as a description for all styles of partner dance that are done to Swing music which also includes the dance styles Balboa and Shag. (Note: Gill Brady one of the dancers in these movies told me first hand that they called their dancing Lindy until the publicity machine around the films started calling the dance Rock n Roll) Jitterbug originally described a Swing aficionado or hep cat but later on was also used to describe the dance and Jive was a term that became popular in England after WW2 to describe the dance.Įarly forms of Jive/Rock n Roll dance as seen in the movies such as Rock Around the Clock and Don't Knock the Rock which were danced to Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll Music, are also part of the Lindy Hop family. ![]() ![]() There can be many hours of debate over the correct answer and it really depends on who you talk to but I think of Swing or Jazz and Big Band Swing as the original music the dance was first done to and Lindy Hop as the first name popularised to describe the dance. I often get asked what is the difference between Swing, Lindy Hop, Jitterbug and Jive.
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