Blues Dancing - Dave Madison and Lessa Thieme at Blues Rising

[daveola]

Yup - that's me. I only teach when we need someone to fill in, I never know what my schedule will be locally. I'm teaching in San Diego soon at Fish Taco Blues.

[mrnazraq]

Hey, Dave, you run the Rent Party up in SF? When are you gonna teach there next?

[daveola]

That was actually it. Each of the teachers did a short demo during the Blues Rising event, and this was one of mine. If you search for Blues Rising, you'll find other teacher demos, all about a minute long.

[mrnazraq]

Hey, thanks for the response. Is there anywhere that has the rest of the dance?

[daveola]

Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone by Muddy Waters

[mrnazraq]

what song is this?

[SolitaryKiwi]

this's just incredible :)

[daveola]

You're very kind. :)

[SolitaryKiwi]

Is it very hard to lead someone who's doing all that crazy stuff? How much of her insane leg sweeping and wiggling is led? :D I've heard tell that all the kicking in tango is led, although I'm too much of a beginner to have tried it... so I could believe that it is, but wow... *how*?

[daveola]

:)

Lessa is fantastic. Some of that is led, but much of it is either an embellishment/styling to what I'm leading or a response to what I'm leading.

So in the end, it all does come down to a lead/follow connection, and that's *why* Lessa is fantastic.

[PChanmisao]

Absolutely beautiful!

The way you guys move......just wow