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In the USA a fascinating 'crossover' interaction is happening between the Swing Dance community (particularly West Coast Swing) and the Ballet community.
Many of the leading Swing dancers in the USA are 'retired' or '2nd Line' concert Ballet dancers. Not only does it give ballet dancers an expressive environment outside the concert stage, it also introduces a much wider popular audience to ballet and dramatically raises the technical standards of Swing dancing, bringing Swing dancers to ballet,
Scotland has a very strong Swing dance community, perhaps the most well developed in Europe, but this interaction has yet to get started.
Some ballet dancers doing Swing in the USA,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI1n2Rhk9Tg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK2JeyGfBiw
. . . . . .ideas as to how we could get things going?
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Well I think swing dancing and ballet dancing both have their values and cons and pros.
There are a lot of swingers who actually learning ballet dancing as they thought that ballet has something interesting in it.
Amanda
http://www.dancerz.com/amanda
The World's Dance Network
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| Swing dancers are quite aware that they need ballet technique to improve their performance, the opposite is not true, that ballet dancers want to understand the syncopated patterns that are integral to Swing dance. It's a fascinating interaction - working very much to the advanatge of the Swing community rather than the Ballet.
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