Vintage Blues Demo - Damon and Heidi

At the end of Emerald City Blues 2006, Damon and Heidi performed a quick demo showing vintage blue styles: Slow Drag, Struttin', Ballroomin', Fish Tails, Shake 'n Bake, Grind, and Mooch

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Music

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• vintage
• blues
• dancing
• damon
• stone
• heidi
• fite
• emerald
• city
• slow
• drag
• struttin'
• ballroomin'
• fish
• tails
• grind
• mooch

[bounce510]

I don't know anyone in KY who teaches or dances it. The closest I know are in St. Louis and Knoxville. Send me a message and I can get you in touch with someone, or alternately there are decent sized events with classes and dances that span two or three day weekends. If you are sure you want to learn immersing yourself in it will get you a lot of info real quick and a chance to put it immediately to use with some of the best dancers in the country.

[JPLooney]

I've seen this "Blues Dancing" done here in Lexington and Louisville, KY, but no one teaches it at any studio, dance group, or community..

Yet more then a single person seems to know it.. man it's so frustrating getting others to teach you anything :(

[bounce510]

You can go to the remaining jook joints, and see some of them still danced today. You can interview the old dancers of the various styles as well as read the books and watch the few film clips and examine the art of the period.

The info is all there, it just takes a little initiative and dedication to find it.

[bounce510]

Albert Murray used the term in 1971. Mura Dehn used it in 1951. The term Swing Dancing did not collectively refer to all dancing done to Swing music in the 30's either, but by the time West Coast Swing gained popularity it was used to refer to all the descendants of lindy hop including those that were no longer strictly danced to Swing music, or even Jazz.

The dances here are all historically sourced dances done to Blues music, sharing a common aesthetic. You don't have to take my word for it.

[Dancefusion]

This is not historially notated...source it as a system you should be able to source it. There is no historical record for a blues dance system. Only that people danced to blues music, duh! But that's late making up an immagamation of videos or print about referances to individuals slow dancing of any era and mashing them together then marketing them as a system. It's disrespectful to the historical record. Evolution is awesome I love it...but don't make up history

[SwingGirlBlues]

I loved Damon and Heidi's videos when I was learning to blues. Still great a year later. :-)

[brooklynsweb]

I'm new to Blues dancing.. will be taking lesson in Jan.. from DM... this video is a great preview... nice job!

[shanghaibabe]

It's very very very helpful! Thanks

[fuzmiq]

thanks. that was really helpful.

[armynurseboy]

Damon Rawks!!!!!!!