Lindy hop – the queen of Swing dance
People here in India are not much aware of Swing dancing. Mostly people here know the traditional jive, only very recently we are being introduced to 6 step East Coast Swing. Even that people call it 6 step jive. What we call jive here don’t really exist anymore. Most of the jiving had been replaced by Swing dancing. We have huge variety of swing dancing.
Some of them are
East Coast swing
Charleston
Lindy Hop
Balboa
West Coast Swing
Hustle
One of the most energetic and lively dance of all is Lindy its amazing to see people dance Lindy on social dancing places. I took an intensive course on Lindy. Lindy is a partnering dance, most of time it comes in tandem with ECS and Charleston. Lindy in an eight count dance. read more about Lindy in this Wikipedia article:
Look at this video to watch 2 good Lindy hoppers perform.
This is a great competition dance and its very famous all over US. It was first danced among the African american community but now has reached almost all the US people. Its mostly loved among youngsters who like to hang out for lindy social nights.
Best place for Lindy Social nights in OC , CA is on Friday nights in Atomic Ballroom. I never miss Swing on friday nights in Irvine. I lived like 5 minutes near to that place and it was easy for me hangout on friday nights. I miss my swing nights now since i am back in India
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