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AllAboutSwing
- Oct 27, 2019
- 4 min
Turn Your Swing Dancing Weaknesses into Strengths!
As Swing Dancers, we are always learning and improving our ability - from technique, styling, musicality, improvisation, balance and your leading and following to name a few. In order to be the best swing dancers we can be, we should be able to identify areas of weakness, and turn them into strengths.
When working on these areas, it's a great idea to work on your weakest three elements. Once these are no longer your weakest elements, move onto the next. This will keep you m
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AllAboutSwing
- Oct 16, 2019
- 2 min
Concord Swing Danced & Jumped to the Beat!
The All About Swing Crew want to thank everyone for making the Concord Carnival Such a spectacular day! We had an absolute blast Jumping to the Beat and sharing our love of Swing Dancing in Concord!
We were overwhelmed by the amount of interest and support from so many guests at the Festival. Many stayed and enjoyed our on stage shows and others registered for our next Swing Dancing Course dates (below)
We were lucky enough to be joined by two amazing bands. The Hi Tops
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AllAboutSwing
- Feb 28, 2019
- 6 min
Glitz, Glam and Gruelling Work: A Day in the Life of a Professional Dancer!
It is the morning after a dance troupe session and I have a swing dance performance on tonight!
Tensions are high because we were warned at troupe that the band was not a swing band and we could be dancing to any kind of music: not what we’d normally be dancing to! The first thing I do is check my messages to see if there have been any updates to the gig. So far, so good! I double check the details in the group chat for this gig as well as the original notice. I know wh
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