The weekend of September 14-16, Toronto had the plasure to host Lennart, eWa, Daniel and Äsa eho are excellent lindy hoppers and instructors from Sweden. This was a super refreshing change of teaching since I've more often gotten the North American style. They went back to more Frankie inspired stuff and really tried to stay away from patterns since it is a vernacular dance.
Lennart had the nice points that lindy hop should flow and should be relaxing, not just all energetic and flashy when the music gets intense. I know this point really made John happy because that's his dance philosophy. For others, this point would be a tougher one to implement just based on their style.
Daniel and Äsa had some nice body movement exercises to make the dance flow through more of the body, or to vary your position/mood. They also did a bunch of scatting exercises, and at first people felt awkward, but it became fun when the whole group was doin it.
The dance DCH was pretty fun and it had a lot of people who didn't show up atla often because of work/school (even Turlough came down from Montreal). I had the pleasure of dancing with Daniel a few times over the weekend and it was sooo much fun! Up there on the list of best dances including Peter, Juan, and Stefan.
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