West Coast Swing (Richard & Melissa, 2006-04-03)
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Uploaded by PanoramaSplash on Mar 15, 2007
Richard Kear and Melissa Rutz dance an impromptu west coast swing demo at Richard's weekly wcs dance party.
Website:
www.melissarutz.com
www.kearproductions.com
Music: "Wade in the Water" by Kathy Mattea
(At Steppin' Out, Sunnyvale, CA on 2006-04-03)
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It's an awesome piece of dance - look at the way she fights for the lead!
It's so good on so many different levels.
It's improvised!! Yet you have two powerful personalities struggling for control while keeping to the same musical framework.
You're watching geniuses trying to outsmart each other. . .
3 years ago 4
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awesome!
2 years ago 2
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Pruby - you know spot about WCS. Go watch some other video's of Melissa Rutz - she always challenges the lead, its her personality.
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@insterburg10 Um, she's not fighting for the lead and they're not struggling for control or trying to outsmart each other at all. All of her embellishments are perfectly within the WCS lead/follow framework, and work because he's also following those conventions. One of the hardest things leading is allowing the follower room to bring her own creativity to the dance. That's the product of cooperation, not conflict.
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3:23 that whole bit is so freakin clean. amazing connection and control.
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Richard is invincible. Crazy, amazing creativity.
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the best west coast
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Excellent! They are really dancing to the music especially towards the end of the song. This is WCS improvised at it's best! A lot of play, a lot of fun and a great song!
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Simply amazing and SO beautiful. LOVE it. Thanks for sharing! =)
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I never saw such kind of dancing. Smooth, improvising, real dancing to the music and you can see how much both enjoy dancing, without those fixed patterns you see in general and also so natural, nothing overdone, only with real enjoyment of music and dancing. I could really watch this all day long!!!
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@ArrowBiter the really nice thing about wcs is that it's a social dance. you don't need a partner going into it. just show up to a dance/lesson and be both polite and willing to learn. ;o)
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who is the artist of this version of the song?
monicamarie79 4 years ago
See the video description.
PanoramaSplash 4 years ago
What is the song?
IamCoffeeMAD 4 years ago
Information about the song has been added to the description.
PanoramaSplash 4 years ago