A Description of the West Coast Swing Dance

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On behalf of Expert Village my name is Eric Jacobson and I'm Donna Roesel and we're here at Dance Manhattan Studios in New York City to show you and teach you West Coast Swing. Hi, we're here go present West Coast Swing to you. West Coast Swing is a popular swing form that has grown out of the other swing form and is characteristically different from the other swing forms in that it is danced up and down in a line or a slot. And, we're going to be presenting to you some six count patterns and some variations. The dance is danced all around the country, it's very sexy, very smooth. We dance to jazz and blues but we also dance to rhythm and blues, more and contemporary R&B, soul, pop, funk, hip-hop, pretty much anything you'd like. This dance incorporates a lot of elements from other dances like Lindy Hop and other swing forms. It has a lot of similar figures, it also has a lot of baskets, a lot of hammerlocks folds, exciting turns, very fun, very improvisational, very creative.

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