Thought I'd start a thread just for links to You Tube dance videos.
My starter for 10
Thought I'd start a thread just for links to You Tube dance videos.
My starter for 10
Is that what you guys mean by connection?!
i think is pretty cool.
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
Couple of Gooooogle ones, just to be different...
Just in case youse haven't seen these before (likely many people have, but they're that good...)
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...alie+and+yuval
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...ing+and+a+jump
Slightly better quality on google, IMO:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...26517633642982
the finale to this is quite amazing
Not YouTube, but hopefully that won't be a problem:
http://www.bolt.com/deejdj1416/video/756870
http://www.bolt.com/deejdj1416/video/756556
http://www.bolt.com/deejdj1416/video/756016
http://www.bolt.com/deejdj1416/video/755857
This is Hand Jive, not WCS. Doesn't it look a lot like MJ?
(Tatiana Gousarova, Oleg Ouchakov - Varekai).
Only just discovered youtube and google videos - last night - hence spent what seemed like a couple of hours browsing beginning with a couple of MJ ones - then rapidly on to Lindy, Blues and WCS (one amazing one with Benji Schwimmer)....finally logged out. I'm in tonight, guess what I will be doing.....
It's not WCS, but I was inaccurate in calling it Hand Jive - it's Hand Dancing. Or at least, that's what Deonna Ball (the woman in the clips) calls it, and she ought to know.
As far as the US Open, although WCS predominates, it is not the "US Open West Coast Swing" competitoin but the "US Open Swing" competition, and the rules for Classic say only that it requires 80% Swing Content. In defining Swing Content, they use this definition:
This comes from the "statement of swing" at the NASDE website, and if you look there I think it's fairly clear it is specifically meant to include styles other than WCS such as Hand Dancing, Shag, Lindy Hop, etc."Swing is an American Rhythm Dance that is identified primarily by 6-beat and 8-beat patterns that incorporate a wide variety of rhythms. 6-beat patterns include, but are not limited to, passes, underarm turns, push-breaks, and open-to-closed/closed-to-open position patterns. 8-beat patterns include, but are not limited to, whips, swing-outs, Lindy circles, and Shag pivots. Although they are not part of the foundation of the dance as stated above, 2-beat and 4-beat rhythm breaks may be incorporated to phrase the music, to extend a pattern, and/or to accent breaks."
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