Cuttin’, circles, and jams
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Recovering From Burn Out: My Story- Part 3
part 3 COVID. I had covid. After avoiding it for years, I had covid. It was not long before I was meant to be traveling across the world, to teach a dance I wasn’t sure I feel ready to do. It felt like I really had to confront if I really WANTED lindy hop this
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Recovering From Burn Out: My Story – Part 2
Part 2 “Do you want to teach at Gothenburg Queer Lindy festival?” I groaned. lindy hop??? A swirl of emotions rising in me, old wounds that never healed ached once again. The newest ones still stung. I was considering quitting dance altogether, because I was burnt out. Tired of the fighting, the games, the feeling
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It’s hard to share a truth you haven’t faced yourself yet
It’s hard to share a truth you haven’t faced yourself yet. I seem to have stumbled my way into yet another sloughing off what is not working to reveal raw and unknown aspects underneath. My relationship to dance is in a state of disrepair due to a variety of reasons, some that come from the
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A new future for the Blues Dance Scene
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of work for the Lindy Hop community. I’ve dove deep into the history of the dance, and the scene and considering what could be improved moving forward. Now I’m turning to look at the blues community. I know the blues scene has taken a long time to return to
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How to Bring Cultural Context into a Community
How do we, if we do not have any Black people around us, bring cultural context into a community? With increasing regularity, I find myself being asked by communities all over the world. There are so many people who want to do better and simply don’t know-how. This piece is about starting that process, what
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The Importance of Solo Dancing in Swing and Blues
Nowadays, the people that come to dance to blues music overall all hate/fear one thing: solo dancing. We’ve heard every reason: “I’m here for the connection”, “I’m scared”, “I don’t care about that”, even “I could never do that”. We want to point out the historical significance of solo dancing, why it’s important in your dancing
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A letter to the White Blues Dance Community
A letter to the White Blues Dance Community January 20, 2018 Dear community, In the last day or two, Ellie made a post. It really set off a good conversation in the community. Surprisingly, I haven’t received that many messages yet. I’m slowly realizing that majority of my community has no idea of what it
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Blues Documentaries for Social Distancing!
To encourage social distancing we created a list of blues documentaries (and a James Baldwin collection) you can watch right now for free! I’ll be creating more lists as I find more. I have not watched majority of these in full and plan to over the next weeks. If folks are interested we can have
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