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What is the difference between the East Coast and West Coast swing dance?

What is the difference between the east coast and west coast swing dance? What are the stages? You both do the same spins and flips and tricks and stuff?

There are actually many types of swing dances. Rather than the East Coast and West Coast. East Coast Swing is a standard ballroom dance that developed in the 1940s as the popularity of swing music big band swing and folk dances like the Lindy Hop reached their peak of popularity. It has a basic counting. Here and example of East Coast Swing Ballroom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bk7ZzkQk2U Lindy Hop is the original swing dance, created in Harlem in the late '20s and was best known at the Savoy Ballroom out through the 30s. Today, outside the competitive dance scene, East Coast Swing is usually taught as a first dance or a springboard for learning Lindy Hop, as the dance is really easy to learn for a beginner compared to the Lindy Hop, which is a bit more complex. (Dancers Historical look up, Shorty George Snowden and Frankie Manning). It has an 8-Count Basic. Here and example of the rapid pace of Lindy Hop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myJj0mNNe1Y Here is an example of mid-tempo Lindy Hop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdgaVz56hlA West Coast Swing developed in the 50s and 60s in California and changed his swing music big band rock, blues, soul, etc. The dance is actually a mild form of Lindy Hop (with the same set of legs), but has a different style because of the type of music that you dance at that time. The Lindy Hop Swing Out "is actually identical to the West Coast" whip ". (Historical dancers look up, Dean Collins and Jack Carey) Here is an example of the modern West Coast Swing: swing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3ZxiPKmacg Other popular dances include: Balboa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww6ZHEBikqE Collegiate Shag: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPTmqw_92ZE Charleston (as a solo dance): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZYn813sUKM Charleston (as a dance partner): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3wVnmshMI0 Carolina Shag: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBfoXk34oQ8 Wikipedia actually has a terrible history of dance classes in general: Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_dance If you are wondering what to learn. . . you can learn all of them if you wish. It's really up to you, but you recommend you choose one that likes music. Dancing comes from the music, so if you do not like what kind of music goes with a dance of some, then you do not enjoy learning to dance. Hope this helps!

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