Let’s pause for a second to admire the plants… that is a heck of a collection

That 6/8 question was so fundamentally clarifying to me as to how to Lindy. As a longtime jazz player who is starting to learn Lindy dance, it felt soooooo unnatural to dance in 6. But thinking of it as a way to set up improvisation and freedom of expression was soooo helpful!

Found it!!! This is the video with the classic clip of the group of swing outs in a row on different beats!

I learned the Lindy in college back in the late 90's and got to learn in person from Frankie Manning when he came for a workshop. It was such a highlight of my college days that I feel even more so now looking back. I learned the way they taught in that video you saw in New York. Those were such fun days!

great video , thanks Laura

I love you Laura!

I think of it as an 8 count dance with three patterns of moves that repeat rock step, triple step, triple step, rock step triple step, triple step, rock step, triple step triple step, rock step, triple step, triple step and back to the beginning

Great video! .... it’s easy, it’s jazz.

love you, thanks a lot

Thank you for featuring and the lovely answer Laura!

Thanks so much Laura for your comments to my question, you're so kind & sweet. Bye bye

You really do have the best Swing Dance channel. To critique, other channels just don't connect their theory words with demonstration. Just as you say "Get out and dance," the learning from videos is the same, "Just show me what it looks like." The 6 count kind of blew my mind as I tinker on the piano and was trying to deal with 6 counts in 4/4 time music. BUT, as you get to in your video, it adds the necessary sophistication to create mystery.

When your head falls off, LOL!... I have had a big break from dancing, through and after the pandemic... but have finally been missing it enough, and now looking up classes nearby, and getting back into going to socials etc. I loved your answer to "plateau-ing"... I am a musician who plays in the blues scene, and have played in jump blues bands etc, so it's easy for me to just forget about dancing, and just play music... but eventually I miss dancing!... so I found your channel as i have been looking back into dance and instructables to start refreshing things, and getting inspired again... ! ha I have also learned in several cities (Sydney, and Melbourne : Hello from Melbourne Australia!) several groups/teachers, and I have tripped around heaps of countries, and when I wasn't playing/jamming music I was finding Swing dancing all over America (New Orleans, Memphis, Austin, St Louis, Chicago, New York, {Toronto, Montreal})... and as a result, my dancing hasn't had a very linear path... it sometimes is a little chaotic, and has influences from all over... in some scenes I thought this was a real disadvantage... as it was very disjointed, and heaps of different theories and styles in there... and it can be challenging social dancing with 'established' dancers in a particular scene... Plus my musical background always gave me slight advantage, as no matter how much I 'misstepped'... I could always find my way back onto the rhythm or the one, or whatever count I was suppose to be on.. ha ha (which sometimes confuses great dancers as I can get so off track, and then still find my way back.. ha ha). BUT your explanation of plateauing, and the idea that 'the establishments' way of quantifying levels, helped me SO much today... I am probably intermediate dancer, but with so much time off, it's been hard to get back on the dancefloor... and like everything with how my style has ended up, being in a newish city and starting into the social dancing scene again, is daunting... especially when everyone here knows everyone else... but your statement resonated with me SO much "don't let external sources invalidate your progress".. ha and yeah I know from experience too, that just getting out there again and on the floor is what I need... your video helped me today! and gave me another nudge to just get out and do it ! ha thanks! (new subscriber!)

This part about your cat was very funny! 😂

Loving the jungle!

Thanks for the video, really interesting! I was particularly interested in the six-count thing. I actually imagined it was something especially popular among amateurs because you don’t have to worry so much about where the 8 is and all that; never imagined it was the broth that makes the soup! 😄 Interesting discussion on feedback. That has a lot to do with effective communication and how people take things. Sometimes you can say something with the intent of helping someone, but they take it as an attack on their person. Ya’ have ta be careful! Again, thanks for all the videos and keep up the good work! 😀

I enjoyed that talk. :-)

That's why I dance in sets of 2.... 😉 Also, I think "practice" and "rehearsal" are not synonymous. From what I was hearing in the video, it sounded to me that what you were describing was more "rehearsal" than practice. I always considered "practice" as just hanging out and dancing....just like back in the Trinity days. It was informal; we played around on the floor, trying new and different things, while we burned the movements of the dance into muscle memory. This idea was formalized for me when I started learning Tango, where Practicas were formatted as casual "dances" where the idea was to simply get out on the floor and build proficiency by just dancing. "Rehearsal," to me, were always more structured with specific goals in mind.

Great video!! But I don't know... Am I the only one who wished she would have a little more plants and flowers in the background?

6 Count is rhythmically more open and challenging especially for the leader creating the progressions. If there’s NO aligning to the form of the music ( a break that you hold on the 8 th bar maybe ) and a restart at the beginning of the next section then I would definitely miss something. That’s why I teach a lot of music form

Think of the music as in 12/8, but then swung - that fits with the six count.

ok. I have always love yor videos, but... the "feed me move cat"??? ..... oh my... that broke my internet.

Hello! I am truly enjoying your channel. One question. Is there a reason the older clips seems to show dancers moving at lightning speed? I know there were variations as the dance aged, but is there more to it?

Isn't 6 count more chill because the foot movement is slower. Two of the steps (side, side) are two beats in length whereas none are in 8 count.

There is no 1 is like “there is no spoon” from the matrix

Thanks again.... apology first, why do people spend time getting jacked and being a good dancer, a good leader, a good follower, what is your perspective about The balance and feel of your partner? No one ever talks how about the Harmony within a beautiful partnership. I.e. walking out onto the floor with a new partner and knowing exactly how they’re going to dance by the way they feel. Isn’t leading and following more about sharing the balance and flow? Some people have said that it’s reading the essence of your partner. Isn’t jazz about the feel of the music and isn’t that what we’re sharing may be discovering the balance and flow of all our partners. ... Really, and truly, just saying. Thanks again this was a great video you really are wonderful source of all kinds of perspectives.Happy trails