I love the way people try to pigeon-hole music and dancing these days. My main music has been 50's and 60's rock and roll for 30 odd years and the dance I have always done is jive, which derived from the Lindy Hop/ Jitterbug, (which I've always wanted to do). Now it's 'modern' jive, which seems to indicate there was an old jive.
The fact is the music is swing and you jive to it! But there again some misguided dj's might refer to some of the stuff in the charts now as rock and roll and we dance 'modern' jive to it
When I first saw East Coast swing a few weeks ago I realised that is what I want, an easy form of lindy, I can't see any thing at all in common with West Coast swing, which is a dance I can't get my head around. but who cares the waltz hasn't really got anything in common with the tango, but they live together quite happily.
