Oh. I now feel really quite silly for not having immediately guessed that where there were naturals there would be a Curse of the Gifted.
I’ve heard really good things about blues—basically I’ve heard that swing originates from a cleaned-up version of blues? -- and your comment is tipping me further towards “oh for goodness sake check this out already,” so thanks for that ^_^.
I’ve heard that blues originates from a dirtied-down version of swing; at least, I think it’s genesis is later. I just got back from an all-weekend blues workshop. Campbell and Chris were two of the instructors, and you can get some idea for what it looks like from the videos on their site. You can see that competition blues often looks a lot like (competition) lindy; maybe a little more varied, but a lot slower, fewer lifts and generally lower energy.
In practice (when dancing for a partner rather than for an audience), blues is generally much smaller and closer. Most dances are usually at least partially danced in close embrace, where the chest to chest and inside thigh to outside thigh connections are the main lead—so it can be a very sensual and intense dance. I’ve noticed a lot of overlap in the poly and blues communities, in that both are heavily populated by very physically affectionate and openly sexual individuals. Not that those attributes make someone poly any more than they make someone a blues dancer, but there is a strong correlation to each.
Oh. I now feel really quite silly for not having immediately guessed that where there were naturals there would be a Curse of the Gifted.
I’ve heard really good things about blues—basically I’ve heard that swing originates from a cleaned-up version of blues? -- and your comment is tipping me further towards “oh for goodness sake check this out already,” so thanks for that ^_^.
Thanks for that amazing link… is there an LW article on the curse of the gifted?
I’ve heard that blues originates from a dirtied-down version of swing; at least, I think it’s genesis is later. I just got back from an all-weekend blues workshop. Campbell and Chris were two of the instructors, and you can get some idea for what it looks like from the videos on their site. You can see that competition blues often looks a lot like (competition) lindy; maybe a little more varied, but a lot slower, fewer lifts and generally lower energy.
In practice (when dancing for a partner rather than for an audience), blues is generally much smaller and closer. Most dances are usually at least partially danced in close embrace, where the chest to chest and inside thigh to outside thigh connections are the main lead—so it can be a very sensual and intense dance. I’ve noticed a lot of overlap in the poly and blues communities, in that both are heavily populated by very physically affectionate and openly sexual individuals. Not that those attributes make someone poly any more than they make someone a blues dancer, but there is a strong correlation to each.