Received from Roscel Garcia:
Aloha. Hope you and your loved ones are all well.
Social dancing on Oahu is a language with many dialects which is what makes it fun. We have our own set of cues and responses that people understand and respond to with various degrees of efficiency. There’s people who speak fluently, people who speak basic, conversational dance, and those who only know a few words. Beyond the movements we use for actual steps, we have a second ‘hidden’ language. This language is what we use to communicate issues that we’re having with the other person’s dancing. This hidden language is sometimes MORE important than the ‘dance language’ itself. This is meant to be a guide to some of the most common or most widely-understood hidden language cues that we should know for our social dancing. But we do try to get along.
The dialect in the new Swing era of the roaring twenties had meanings, -a hep-cat was a popular swing musician and a canary was a female vocalist. Killer-diller referred to a hot musical number and a jam session was improvised music making. If you understood all this you were "in-the-groove" and had a flawless performance. During the swing era, a whole new vocabulary of slang terms evolved and many of them have been forgotten. But I am an old man and I still remember the title of a famous Duke Ellington number from 1932 called "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
Aloha. Hope you and your loved ones are all well.
Kindly post this notice regarding our dance classes and socials due to coronavirus concerns:
"To heed caution, West Coast Swing Oahu is cancelling classes and dance socials until further notice. We hope everyone will take care, stay safe and well. Mahalo for your understanding. Until we dance again…”
Thank you,
George & Roscel Garcia
West Coast Swing Oahu
danz@westcoastswingoahu.com"Cuesta Abajo" por Carlos Gardel
Social dancing on Oahu is a language with many dialects which is what makes it fun. We have our own set of cues and responses that people understand and respond to with various degrees of efficiency. There’s people who speak fluently, people who speak basic, conversational dance, and those who only know a few words. Beyond the movements we use for actual steps, we have a second ‘hidden’ language. This language is what we use to communicate issues that we’re having with the other person’s dancing. This hidden language is sometimes MORE important than the ‘dance language’ itself. This is meant to be a guide to some of the most common or most widely-understood hidden language cues that we should know for our social dancing. But we do try to get along.
"My Molokai Woman" by Willie K
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| Closed for the month |
"Life throws curveballs. And while there might be blockers to success,
it's imperative to keep pushing with the knowledge that mistakes
will be made and failure sometimes is inevitable."
it's imperative to keep pushing with the knowledge that mistakes
will be made and failure sometimes is inevitable."
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