Five Beat Swing Dance

A quick demonstration of some ways to use Lindy hop-like swing dance skills to dance to five-beat musical numbers, such as Dave Brubeck's "Take Five".

Cat Foley, president of the Newcastle University Swing Dance Society helps me demonstrate a few moves in a rather echoey room.

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Howto & Style

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• swing
• dance
• five
• beat
• dave
• brubeck
• lloyd
• nikolas
• herrang
• lindy
• hop
• jive
• jazz
• take
• steps
• rhythm
• partner

[lindyhop411]

It's an interesting intellectual exercise, but you're essentially creating a new dance and losing the aspects that make Lindy Hop what it is.

Yes you CAN dance to this music, but why would you want to?

[lindybeige]

@lindyhop411 Cos it is fun.

[Kylef7735]

Is the lady very short, or are you very tall?

[lindybeige]

@Kylef7735 6'3" and 4'11".

[ittou5]

Not really worth it to practice new footwork for just 1 song... 5 beat swing doesn`t exist outside of that one song.

All regular moves work just fine on this song, no need to change everything like that.

Or if that`s what makes you happy you could always to 7 count lindy to traditionnal greek songs :)

[lindybeige]

There are other five-beat songs. What about the Mission Impossible Theme?

[lindyhop411]

@lindybeige You can also try out Brubeck's "Unsquare Dance" which is 7 beat.

[Kylef7735]

@lindybeige Ahh, so both! Haha

[uhsuswing]

awesome, good job from the Newcastle Swing Dance Society from the University of Hertfordshire Swing Dance Society!

[shpwrckF03]

OK.. that was freakin' cool. Rock-step step brush and step. Even Frankie didn't get that stuff