I have just recently begun discussing an idea for an advanced Lindy Hop weekend getaway with a few friends. Ideas continue to spring from the concept of Lindy Hop as Performance Art and I think it would make for an amazing weekend to structure a small event in that pursuit, if only for the laboratory experience of having experimented.
Ideally I want 32-40 dancers in attendance, enough to break into four groups of 4 or 5 couples each. After (early) morning sessions of yoga and pilates one group would go to contemporary/modern jazz, another to african dance, a third to hip hop, and a fourth to tumbling. Everyone would rotate through all four during the course of the weekend (2 each day). Late afternoon/evening would be occupied with choreography; two groups would focus on a lindy hop(ish) routine and the other two would do solo charleston/vernacular jazz and then switch the next night. Choreography would last for a couple hours, and then its time to perform for the other groups and then just dance with each other. Somewhere during the day would come food, and sometime after the dancing would come sleep. It would be oh so grueling and oh so fun.
So who wants to join me? Who can we get to teach?
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