Kenny Nelson is a veteran of the lindy hop community and he shares some of his best insight on how to grow the scene, community tools that help and a multiltitude of links that will inform us of the root of the dance. Highly recommend everyone check out the links below and support Swingin Denver!
Sam Caroll's Blog - https://samanthacarroll.com/index.html Blog: https://thehomeofhappyfeet.com/ Book: Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African
American Dance (Folklore and Society) Paperback – March 1, 1996 by Jacqui Malone (Author) Book: Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branche Book: Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era Quote: "I Pay my People"- Duke Ellington https://dogpossum.org/ https://www.azquotes.com/quote/527793 “The term vernacular refers to dance performed to the rhythms of African American music; dance that makes those rhythms visible.”
More on Kenny: https://www.swingindenver.com/blog/ https://www.instagram.com/swinginden/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C2iGAfMOrKT/ Take "Your identity is attached to it and that's a disruption." What could be the "it" he refers to could be me and others grappling with growing up on East Coast Swing/Jitterbug being the first thing you learn coming into a swing dance class, then teaching it because we never questioned why or why not, then grappling with how your dance identity is tied to it and the feelings that might arise
