Topic: WCS - in Bristol?

[Elaine]

I have had three lessons now - over a period of two years and love it!  It's not easy, but anyone thinking of taking the challenge to start a class in Bristol?


Elaine

[marty_baby]

Hiya Elaine,

Didn't Eric run a class for that down in hotwells a few years back??
Might still be going on.


Tried one class... Helia and Eric looked fantastic doing it..... but the straight line idea really bugged me! 

Hope this helps
Martin

 

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[Nick M]

Yes, Cheryl and I did the whole course of Eric's lessons - must be 2 years ago now. You get used to the straight-line and the slow-lindy-style footwork, but the problem is that nobody plays tracks slow enough, so you never get a chance to practice, and then you just forget it all

[Andy]

Trouble with any dance style is that there needs to be enough people doing it to make it viable to hold reasonably regular dances for that style - otherwise (at least in my opinion) there's only a limited point in trying to learn it.

Merry Xmas all

Andy

[Frodo]

Trouble with any dance style is that there needs to be enough people doing it to make it viable to hold reasonably regular dances for that style - otherwise (at least in my opinion) there's only a limited point in trying to learn it.

Very much a consideration that there needs to be enough people doing it - though I would have thought MJ and other dance type events would provide opportunities to dance it ( if there was a sufficent mass of people with some knowledge of it ). 

I'm surprised Nick M has not found tracks at Modern Jive slow enough.  I remember looking at speeds at a few Modern Jive nights and thought there were a reasonable number.

That is not to say it would not help if a few tracks specifically suitable for WCS ( and announced as such ) were played at MJ events.

I don't know that there are any examples of successful WCS stand alone classes. 

Tacking a few classes onto something else might be a better possibility.









 

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[ClaireLSt]

HUH
I'd suggest you check out Graeme and Anne's lessons at Elmgrove or Bath or wherever currently.. if anything is 'lindy style footwork' then what better than checking out lindy style itself.
 

[Andy]

I suspect most of us have looked at Lindy Hop at one time or another, Claire 

However, saying WCS is like Lindy Hop is about the same as saying Le Roc is like Lindy Hop.

Lindy Hop is one of the major sources of both dances (along with a lot of others, in fact) so it would be a little surprising if you couldn't see some similarities. But there are significant differences too.

The major reason for me not wanting to learn Lindy Hop is again that there aren't enough opportunities to dance it (or people to dance it with).

Each to their own on this, of course, but I wouldn't even consider learning any dance style that there wasn't the opportunity to go to well attended local dances at least a couple of times a month.

Andy

[Frodo]

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However, saying WCS is like Lindy Hop is about the same as saying Le Roc is like Lindy Hop.
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Certainly if you're looking from an independent viewpoint, but starting from a LeRoc viewpoint ?

They both lack the 2 dances a month in any case :-).

[ClaireLSt]

andy ! i think the word 'style' was tacked on to most of these dancey nouns..  


i would still say that for anything that borrows from Lindy footwork, like WCS (see earlier posts and elsewhere) then its not a bad move to get some idea of what such footwork  is (as in a 'where's the harm' view) and get it set in your head/feet. simply because its so different from Leroc.

re: if i can't dance it, why bother learning it: there are at least 5 Lindy dances a month in deepest Gloucestershire - sometimes more. Yet only the odd Leroc dance in Glos. or Chelt.  so you see, i have the opposite attitude!!
Happy New Year!!