My favourite workshop was from Johnny Lloyd. It was a Lindy weekender, but he was teaching dance rather than teaching Lindy. He started by teaching us lead and follow fundamentals. In closed position, side by side, we learnt how to lead a forward step, a backward step, a tap-step, a pause, a kick-step, and so forth. We slowly built up confidence in this until we could do a "walking dance" solely in promenade position, playing with the music and with arbitrary combinations of these movements. Then towards the end he put those lead and followed movements together in a certain order, and suddenly we were dancing side-by-side Charleston. With complete lead and follow and an infinite number of variations available to us.
I'd love to take a Modern Jive workshop taught on the same principle. Somehow it was a very rewarding and satisfying experience, and it was great to have our own little private dance style.
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