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Originally posted by Gus
I've found Ceroc to be a very adaptable dance style ... maybe more so than the classic swing dances. (IMHO of course)
Question, don't you find the Lindy style dancing a bit restrictive in that it appears that it can only be used to Swing music ... or am I doing it a great disservice? ... honest question ... not being ODA for once. |
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Gus, you can lindy to other forms of music, it just that (for me anyway) it feels so "right" doing it to swing music (or certain kinds of swing music). I wish I could explain it better but I can't. There's a feel to a good swing track that makes me want to dance and lindy hop is the dance that fits that music.
If you'd asked that question on a US lindy forum then you would probably be getting an avalache of replies arguing both for and against.
The purists argue that if you're doing lindy steps to music that isn't swing then you are not dancing Lindy Hop. Mind you the definition of what music is "swing" is another huge debating point. So, if I was dancing lindy steps to "Wade In The Water" then I wouldn't be doing Lindy Hop looking from the purist's point of view.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, you'd have people that will dance lindy to virtually anything. I've seen swing dj playlists containing tracks like "Fire" by Des'ree and "Goody Two Shoes" by Adam Ant.
I think this goes to show that Lindy is a versatile dance, more so that Ceroc (IMHO
). Lindy has more emphasis on lead and follow and listening to the music which means that you can adapt the dance to fit lots of music.
As Gus and Steve have mentioned there is Hip Hop Lindy which is starting to get a following (see
http://www.hiphoplindy.com). I did see that one of the US Lindy Hop competitions this year had a Hip Hop Lindy division. There are other crossovers such as Swango (swing-tango) and Swallet (swing-ballet) (I haven't seen them so can't comment on them).
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