Suzie Q - Vernacular Jazz Explained for Lindy Hop and Swing Dance
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
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Vernacular Jazz Dance is a great way to improve your partnered Lindy Hop / Swing Dance. Plus, it's super fun!
Just try to follow along at tempo. Don't get frustrated. After you do that, then feel free to slow the video and break it down, but give your body a chance before your brain takes over.
MUSIC:
Just A Little Right, by the Jonathan Doyle Swingtet
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My Mom was a 'Lindy Hopper' back in the day. She taught my sister and I her two favorite moves - the 'Shorty George' and the 'Suzy Q'. I'm 75 now, and I still do them to this day.
I LOVE this. This is beautiful. Thank you.
I just started a solo jazz class, this was the main move in the 2nd class and i got it wrong so many times 😀 Thanks to this video i am currently doing it in the living room to a slightly less horrible standard. Thanks for the amazing breakdown!!!
Suzie Q can totally be confusing. Just keep at it and your body will learn.
We spent 45 minutes in my learning the jitterbug stroll class working on the Suzy Q, we slowed the music down to 80% and worked up in increments on speed. I got lots of great feedback on how grateful they all were doing this. It's a hard move for beginners with so many parts that make it up! I've sent the class this video to help them think about other bits to add in that you've done. Oh and the Toe up/down argument to bolster me telling them in class to make sure it's down hahaha. Plus my dance teacher learned from Frankie Manning and she got told off in front of everyone by him for having her toe up! What a fun story that I pass on in my class.
Omg, I would be so intimidated getting told off by Frankie! A great story.
I like your teaching exercise vibe. And didn't realise I knew the Suzy Q!
Like you, I enjoy, when percussing or dancing, actually feeling waves of music through it, rather than just stepping.
Vamos!Andiamo!Yes! I like the Clear contact to mother Earth und the Energy! As an old kid and just a few years in Swing dancing I get a closer contact to the Swing music.
Not bad. We used to do a Katherine Dunham version of this step and I had forgoteen it, but your video brought it back. Great job!! Thank you!!
Thanks Laura! I was watching Sanford n Son and they mentioned this dance. So I was curious 🤔
Wow. Amazing.
mil gracias!!!!, es un paso difícil la 1º vez que te lo muestran en clase.....Eres un encanto!!!💕
a great one, thanks
SUPER!!
Great!!!!!😍
Hi! Can you say something more about not lifting your toes in the front foot? You said in the video that "it's from history". What do you mean? Thank you for your videos, greetings from Poland :)
Such a great question! I'll probably do a full video explanation of this since it's so common. Initially, I remember people saying "never put your toe up" when I learned it -- but of course I don't have documentation of that. So I started looking around for something better to tell you. Every example of a vintage dancer I can find has their toe down.
Check out all of the dancers in the Big Apple - they all have their toe down: ruclips.net/video/H1K5M5xluZs/видео.html
Even Leon James when he's making fun of "naeve young dancers who think they're hot" doing the Suzie Q STIL has his toe down: ruclips.net/video/vApvxdE7L68/видео.html
The reason, to me, becomes even more apparent when you check out their posture. They are all forward with a lot of weight on that front foot. If your weight is forward, it's going to be more difficult to lift that toe up. Therefore the toe down is more than just stylistic, it's a normal part of the move.
Hope that helps answer your question! If you find any evidence to the contrary, please let me know! I love to learn
Do you think you can teach it Ralph Kramden?
Some history of that step? :)
It's not all the history, but it's a bit!
ruclips.net/video/oH9INH4s_7U/видео.html