Throwback Video! Lindy Hop combos with Anna, Slava, Jean, and Ali

Throwback! We made this video at a team get-together in Berlin many years ago, to demonstrate some course material. Since then, our classes have changed a lot, but we still want to share this little dance snapshot with you.
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[@judeselee]

Watching this clip 100times over.
What a so lovely movement!!
Thx!

[@SwingStepTV]

Hey Jude, thank you for your emotions :)
If you would like to start dancing (or improve on what you already know), you can take a look at the courses we filmed for all levels. You can find them at swingstep.tv
Hope you enjoy them :)
Stay safe.

[@shaunbarker274]

Absolutely sublime.

[@markleonardkaneko]

Thanks for posting this. I love the combinations here. My dance partner and I regularly break down some of the moves from this one video for our practices and to add to our arsenal. I’ve probably watched the video 50 times myself over the last few months.

[@SwingStepTV]

Hello Mark! Thank you for being inspired by our video so much :) We hope you still can practice these days.
As we are a dance school and we can't have our regular classes, we filmed all the courses (6 full classes each) and now they are available online at swingstep.tv/
You can find all the moves from this video (and some not shown here!) in our Swing 3 course. We also have separate courses for leaders and followers to improve their skills. Take a look at them too :)
Stay safe!

[@314jph]

This looks choreographed, I don't see the leads.

[@SwingStepTV]

@@314jph the video is a set of combos that were based on lead-and-followable moves that we in our team enjoyed social dancing at that time. We did choreograph those moves together for the videos, you can see that the lock turns and slides at the ends of a few phrases are choreographed; but each of the tuck turn variations is one that we'd social dance regularly at that time and the moves would look essentially the same. (Keeping in mind this is a team of friends and colleagues who danced together a lot; with matching styles and preferred techniques, it's easier to lead and follow complicated moves than it would be with a "random" other dancer.)

[@closetcleaner]

Love this video. Wish it be longer.

[@SwingStepTV]

Thank you so much :) If you want to watch longer videos, you can check out our courses on www.swingstep.tv ;)

[@CarlosJimenez-yr1fh]

Beautiful!

[@SwingStepTV]

Thanks! Glad you like it

[@zaylovers2]

i LOVE de vídeo me encantaaa

[@SwingStepTV]

Would you like to learn all of these moves (and more!) from home? We filmed it for you!
6 full classes of our Swing 3 course (as well as all the others) are available at bit.ly/swingstep-TV
We also have separate courses for leaders and followers to improve your skills if you don't have a partner to practice, and their first classes are available for free :)

[@theplinkerslodge6361]

Link isn't working - is the site still active?

[@SwingStepTV]

@@theplinkerslodge6361 sorry yeah that's a very old link; check the video description for up-to-date info 😊

[@davidalen9279]

First couple dancing a single, the second (couple) a triple...nice!

[@SwingStepTV]

Thanks David! Glad you liked that. We love mixing Charleston steps and triple steps freely when we're dancing. In this course we tend to spend a few weeks on one, a few weeks on the other, and then we even combine them within the dance with our students. It's so much fun to watch people trying that out for the first time :)

[@davidalen9279]

@@SwingStepTV Love it...looks like a blast!

[@jw2442]

I THINK I've seen you guys around. Kirkland / Seattle / Tacoma area?

[@SwingStepTV]

Hey. If it was us, we were not aware of that :) We are in Berlin and Heidelberg, Germany

[@davidhamilton5084]

what's the name of the song?

[@SwingStepTV]

Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Short Dressed Gal (2009) - 165 BPM

[@zaylovers2]

💓💓❤️

[@Charleston_Tony]

0:05 0:16 0:32
0:43 0:53 1:04 1:08

[@jazzbeau507]

why only 15.5 k subscribers?

[@SwingStepTV]

Haha you tell me ;)

[@serenatofanari6288]

Blah