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Swing Dance Styles

What is swing dancing ?
A Swing Dance Lexicon by Bob Thomas
Overview Of Swing Dance Styles by Kurt Lichtmann

East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing and Hustle (or Swing Hustle) What are they; Very Briefly and Compactly (from the Kansas City Social Dance Page)

Source: people on rec.arts.dance and a 1993 newsletter by Bob Thomas (bobethomas@earthlink.net) a dance teacher in Boston. (compiled by Mark Balzer (mabg9646@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) and turned into HTML by Aswin)

Since we used a lot of material from rec.arts.dance many more people did contribute to this document. Where possible I tried to include the source. I apologize for all people not (yet) recognized. Let me (aswin@cs.cornell.edu) know if you want to be mentioned as a source.

There is another version of this document at Dancers Archive that is slightly different. There is also another html version.

Other Dance Style Listings

The best way to see the differences in swing dance styles would be to watch a video of competitive dancers doing:

They would all look different. The winners of Jack & Jill competitions in WCS are characteristic of how very good people look doing "real" WCS.

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