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• Elokuvasta Book Club: ”Dance is about connection. It can't just be routine. Moving in unison is not the same as dancing.”
• Westcoastswingonline: "The leader is responsible for selecting the patterns of the dance, but is encouraged to create opportunities for the follower to shine within the dance. The follower is responsible for carrying out the intention of the leader, but is encouraged to play and interpret within the leader’s overall structure."
• Hit The Breaks in WCS: "You go home, you draw in the blinds, you play music, drink a lot of wine. And do stuff. And whatever is not overly weird, keep doing that. That is playing." 😃
• Rake Salo westiyhteisöstä: "tekniikan arvostus tulkinnan ja vapauden lähteenä”
• Ben & Cameo, paritanssi kahdella sanalla: "1. Connect, 2. Create"
• Adamo & Vicci paritanssista @thebluesroom.com: "Firstly, we are dancers, individual dancers, and secondly we are partners; and actually we have two partners: we have the music and we have each other."
• Steppin' on the Blues -kirja s.49, viejä-seuraaja-roolien eroista perinteisissä eurooppalaisissa tansseissa ja länsiafrikkalaisvaikutteisissa tansseissa: The white folklorist Bessie Lomax Hawes became aware of this difference while learning ring plays from Bessie Jones, an African American of the Georgia Sea Islands: "Suddenly the cultural gulf between us yawned very wide indeed. To me, as to all white Americans, I suspect, a person who is "with" me must do just what I am doing, must copy my movements (and my ideas and my speech and my dress and my clapping)... To Mrs. Jones and the Sea Islanders, to be "with" somebody means to respond to them, to complement and support their silences, to fill in their statements (musical, physical and verbal) with little showers of comment, to answer their remarks — to clap a different pattern."