Anyone have any more information on this?
http://swingpatrol.co.uk/event-item/...aby-blues-.php
Like location, classes, hours etc? Useful things people put on their website normally.
What a pity this is over the same weekend as Cats WCS weekend.
Same weekend as Rhythm Riot too
Swing Patrol are a lindy organisation, so I would assume the emphasis would be on lindy blues and lindy dancers, rather than the blues Ceroc dancers are familiar with.
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Leroy (Satchel) Paige (1906-1982)
Mickey Mouse's girlfriend, Minnie, made her film debut, along with Mickey, in "Steamboat Willie" on November 18, 1928.
That date is recognized as her official birthday.
I think it misleading to refer to it as 'Lindy blues'. True - it's the variety of blues that Lindy folk (the ones that like blues dancing) tend to prefer, and it shares some common roots with Lindy - but it's not derived from Lindy.
The flavour of blues dance that is generally taught in an MJ context, on the other hand, tends to be a bit of a fusion between MJ and blues.... (usually incorporating more of the former than the latter) Which is one of the reasons why the definitions get so confused on here, I think. The US blues organisations tend to be a lot clearer on the definitions (here's one example).
Blues danced by a Lindy dancer looks and feels different to a MJ dancer dancing it - be it the same dance.
I didn't mean they were different dances, and as the organiser is Lindy based, I would have thought it would be lindy biassed (all assumptions, I really don't know)
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Age is a question of mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter
Leroy (Satchel) Paige (1906-1982)
Mickey Mouse's girlfriend, Minnie, made her film debut, along with Mickey, in "Steamboat Willie" on November 18, 1928.
That date is recognized as her official birthday.
Which would you call what Rocky and Val, Dale and Sarah dance?
Well US style is more pulse, pulse - pulse, pulse - whereas what we do is sway and sway. There is a lot of similarity in the moves that are used between the two styles but there's no question that the US style has a vintage look about it which suits the Lindy crowd, whereas what we do has a more modern look which suits the MJ crowd.
Neither's right or wrong, they're just different.
Which is where it all started
Which originated from the what you refer to as the 'US Blues dance style', and I refer to as 'Blues'.
It feels a bit like an argument I used to have with a an American friend - who insisted that the term 'football' referred solely to American football, and that to describe 'English football', one should use the term 'soccer'. My suggestion that American 'football' should actually be called 'rugby for wimps' didn't solicit quite the enthusiasm I'd hoped for .
Believe it or not, I don't think I've ever (knowingly) seen them dance. Is there a Youtube link around?
I know what you mean. And if this were not an MJ board, I'd be happy naming "blues" as the US style, as that style is clearly the originator (and, presumably, most popular).
On the other hand, "blues" here is mainly used to describe the UK MJ variant.
Well, that's a good analogy actually.
In the US, "football" means "American Football".
Outside the US, "football" means "soccer".
Extending the analogy further, I wonder what the equivalent dance comment would be...
Fair point. I suppose my original point is that it shouldn't be called 'Lindy Blues' - 'US Blues', would probably be a far better description for this board's purposes...
Well - as (thankfully) no-one has resorted to slagging off either of the varieties of Blues under discussion, it's probably best not to go there..... (but if you fancy inventing a form of Blues that requires body-armor, and bringing on a substitute at frequent intervals throughout the dance - for example, whenever one changes from closed hold to open or back again - I'd be willing to give it a go...)
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