It is visceral. And it has abandon generated by one's reaction to the music. The birth of the blues beget swing whose own abandon infected the world. Jazz's new swinging sound beget Charleston's breakaway which seguewayed into Lindy's swingout. Were it not for all this we would not have West Coast or East Coast or Carolina Shag or the many styles of Lindy prevalent today.
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West Coast's whip and push break are Lindy staples. Lindy's early abandon, garnered in part from its attraction to the apache and its wanton sexually, turned a sophisicated eye to the dance as music styles changed. But West Coast and its cousins still have the same lineage and like it or not the steps are all the same. A new production by Artspectrum. For more information, click here .