I wholly reserve the right to be grouchy tomorrow, but tonight, I am HAPPY! And you're AWESOME!
I’m meant to be writing about something that makes me happy. Something, in fact, that “makes (me) ache because it's so beautiful / feel so small in its vastness / implode with wonder.”
It’s Monday night and that is the PERFECT night for writing about this because every Monday night I am completely BUZZED and sitting here on my patchwork quilt just ( Read more... )
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This reminds me of when I used to walk down the road, step-step-tri-ple-step, step-step-tri-ple-stepping my way along. And the overly enthusiastic Italian guy in this video.
Dancing with live music is the best! I was dancing last Saturday night at a Kamao Quintet gig in Hackney - they played some cool gypsy swing, it was fun, and a fair bit of it danceable, though not all so much - and danced with a girl from New Orleans, who was saying how there is live music to dance to every night of the week there, and she hardly ever dances to anything DJed. I was rather jealous. Though London is not too bad either.
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That gig sounds fantastic. Swing dance in Hackney! And I'm so jealous of that girl from New Orleans. Live music, how fantastic. we do have the Roseneath Centennial Band, but I actually haven't been - how slack.
I'm going to queue that video up for when I've got half an hour free :)
When it was Val and Nick and I going to Swing, we used to go to Scopa afterward and practice our swingouts going down Cuba street. Occasionally we got looks, but one night we bumped into a middle-aged American couple outside a hotel who wanted directions to a restaurant. They got directions, and we got a demonstration of THEIR swing style - I don't know what it was, but it was fantastic.
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The video is rather long, skipping bits of it is entirely legitimate.
Are Val and Nick no longer going? That is a pity. Very cool that you had that American couple give you a demo on the street though! When I was walking through Central Park wearing my LSF t-shirt the other week, on Friday 22nd June I think, some middle-aged woman walking past with her husband and friends stopped me to ask if I was a swing dancer, and said that her daughters were also into it. (-:
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Val's got choir on Monday nihts now, and Nick, um, last I heard, didn't like the style of any of the follows!
Cool story bro! Spreading the swinginess :)
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Well we've had a sad drop-off in numbers from our group, I think Dan needs you to come back and motivate him into doing it :) Charmaine and I are still going though, and we're really, REALLY good at tandems now which are the most fun thing you culd possibly do - look them up on Youtube.
This makes me happy as well :)
Do you go dancing in Tonga?
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I will look up your tandems when my internet decides that it is indeed broadband and not dialup. It's been a bit confused the last few days and won't even load gmail.
xo
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Tell your internet to get its act together. <3
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I never knew what it was either - I was bored and talking to a sign language interpreter before work, who mentioned that she was also a Swing dance instructor and I should come along (really, some people have the most fantastic day jobs) - and I did with my friends and it turned out addictive :)
Those lifts the dancers are doing look like incredible fun, but waaaay too hard for me - yet. Swing's getting really popular, you should try it!
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That movie clip was incredible. Even the obviously excellent dancers in the second video weren't nearly as amazing.
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Your parents sound awesome :)
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(Sorry, didn't get your name - who is it? :P )
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