2011年9月27日 · After years of studying, competing in, and dancing socially all three - West Coast Swing, East Coast Swing, and Lindy Hop, I am more and more inclined to agree with Dean Collins, who is oft quoted as saying "There are only two kinds of swing - Good, and Bad." Just don't get me started on the music. IF it ain't a swing rhythm, its some other dance.

2011年9月27日 · As the BPM rise and catch up with my injuries, general out-of-shapeness and lack of experience/practice with faster Lindy Hop, I'll dance single-step East Coast. Both East Coast Swings are taught in a broken rhythm, (6 counts when the music has 8). In East Coast the dancers face each other, usually with a two hand hold. The basic travels side ...

2017年5月17日 · Phrasing. A phrase in dancing is basically two bars of music: each bar is four beats, so a phrase being two bars amounts to a count of 8. Of course, with East Coast Swing being strictly 6-count moves that throws phrasing straight out the window, but both Lindy and WCS are tied to those 8-count phrasings.

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2009年2月26日 · Anyway, if it's East Coast swing (aka jitterbug), that's definitely easier to learn than salsa. Salsa rhythms are more complex, and there are a lot of fast turns expected of the ladies. That said, I prefer salsa to East Coast swing because I like latin music, and you are correct that there are more places to do it socially.

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2009年8月9日 · East Coast Swing: usually '40's big band music, '50's rock, or classic rock West Coast Swing: usually blues, R&B, or current pop music Jive: usually faster swing, rock, or rockabilly Also, Jive is a ballroom Latin competition dance and isn't done much socially, whereas East and West Coast swing are more social dances (although you could compete ...

2007年12月26日 · Disclaimer: most people associate rock-step triple triple with east coast swing, rather than west coast swing (typically walk-walk triple triple when working in units of 6 beats). If you did mean east coast, the answers below may not be relevant. The problem of six against eight is one of the things that gives wcs a steep initial learning curve.

2011年10月12日 · East Coast swing breaks into two categories of its own, triple step East Coast and the vernacular East Coast. . Actually " we " teach ECS with 3 different rhythms, single time, double time and triple time . Each may be used depending …

2003年4月18日 · "The Ballroom community, looking for a much more simple and mild form of swing, invented a much simpler and milder form called "Eastern Swing" (East Coast Swing) in the forties. In Los Angeles in the 1940's and 50's many teachers would dance West Coast Swing as sort of an enticement." The above was taken from a popular dance web site.