This includes East Coast swing , Jitterbug , West Coast swing , shag and numerous other types of swing dances. We will cover the major differences between the most common swing dances: Lindy hop, Jitterbug, East Coast swing triple and West Coast swing.
Some of these included a six-count jitterbug and a triple step East Coast swing and the West Coast swing, in the forties, fifties and sixties. Lindy hop uses predominantly eight-count patterns but mixes in some six-count patterns. The dancers pull back from the center giving a bent appearance to the dance posture and flex the knees throughout the dance using a pulsing action.
Like the West Coast swing , the Lindy hop uses a slot generally and sometimes moves circular but generally ends facing either direction of a slot. During this period, many people new to dancing learned to swing dance and it remained very popular for over a decade.
Lindy Hop is still danced though out the U. The East Coast swing is mostly a six-count swing dance with occasional eight count patterns thrown in for variety. The regional prefix was used to distinguish this form of swing from Western swing later called West Coast swing.
The East Coast swing triple rhythm has been heavily codified in order to have a standard for the judging panels to use in Dance sport competitions. It is also taught starting with a rock step on counts 1,2 followed by two triple steps. Its circular motion makes it nice for dancing in a smaller area.
It uses leverage and compression like West Coast swing. Partner dancing changed to freestyle dancing or dancing apart from a partner. This trend lasted until the late seventies when disco and hustle dancing became popular. The triple rhythm East Coast swing is perfect for medium tempo music but most of the songs mentioned are fast and single rhythm East Coast swing works better for fast music. Single rhythm East Coast swing also goes by the name Jitterbug swing or just jitterbug. In recent years, it has been used for a form of East Coast swing that is perfect for fast tempo music.
Jitterbug was the white name for Lindy Hop. Everyone wanted to learn Lindy Hop and essentially the studio created a dance that would be easier for them to teach. They took the most basic Lindy Hop steps and simplified them in a standardized way so that they could instruct the masses.
East Coast swing is strictly based on six-count patterns while Lindy Hop, which evolved organically as a street dance, is a mix of six-count, eight-count, Charleston, jig and other patterns. He influenced the popular music of the time, and the music inspired changes to the dancing. However, depending on where you are geographically, or what kind of community you dance with, you might call almost the same dance steps Boogie Woogie or Jive.
Some communities would even still hang on to the earlier white name for Lindy Hop and call it Jitterbug. The term was used for people with symptoms of syphilis, itching, chills and uncontrolled twitching. They could therefore not dance monitored. So the name came along. We were Jitterbugs and we accepted the title with grace and tolerant humor.
The general public did not. Because our dance was completely new to the public, and so different from anything they had ever seen on the dance floor, we were considered a wild, undisciplined, vulgar mob, overly obsessed with sex which is not necessarily bad for my view , and with a total lack of manners and morals.
That was the general opinion about the swing dancers in the late s, big band music began to dominate, and Jitterbugging was the only kind of dance that was able to participate in this new and exciting music.
So we became less and less vilified with the passing of the years. In the 's, we refer to ourselves as swing dancers, and the term "Jitterbug" was only occasionally heard.
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Customization cookies that allow users to access services according to their preferences language, browser, configuration, etc.. The basic step is essentially the same as the jive — rock step back, triple step right, triple step left — but with the technique tweaked slightly. So now that you all have a Ph. East Coast Swing: slower, earthier cousin of the jive with less bounce and a more relaxed feel. West Coast Swing: even slower, sexier, slinkier cousin of the Lindy Hop that is very open to interpretation.
Ultrasound sales specialist by day, semi-knowledgeable DWTS fan by night It definitely makes more sense now for all the differences between these dances. Thank you for all that research and hard work, Courtney!! Impressive research, description and exemplifications!! Thank you again! The dance descriptions were excellent but adding the videos was pure genius.
That deserves to be in the syllabus of a college class on the history of dance. I was in a total muddle about the differences between those dances and now I at least have a clue. Love it!! Awesome job, Courtney!! You really laid out all the facts in a way that was interesting and fun.
I loved all the great information and the clips to compare. Standing ovation to you from this reader!!! Thanks for the great information and hard work, well done you!
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