Wednesday 1 October 2008

Swing , Latin, and Classic Dance

I joined the "Magic step", the KAIST dance community, by learning and doing "Sports dance". There are two kinds of dances in "sports dance", one is Latin dance category, and the other is Classic dance. In Latin dance, there are five different style of dances - ChaCha, Rumba, Jive, Samba, and Pasodoble and there are also five different style in class dance such as Waltz, Vienna Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango and Quick step.
I started to learn swing dance since Sep. 2008 - currently I've learned Lindy, Balboa and east coast swing. Lindy is much more like Jive, especially foot work and 8 counts. But the difference between Latin and swing is the "dynamics". In Latin, the male and the female or ,what we call, the leader and the follower should have follow routine steps first and then both of them can manipulate just based on general routine steps. But in swing, the female, or the follower, can only follow the leader's movement whatever he choose. It's really dynamic and more fun!!!
I really , really like Swing and this is another happiness what I could enjoy in Pittsburgh.

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