Monday Swing - Beyond Conversational Lindy Hop w/ Mary, Ashley and Rue

Monday Swing is a weekly vintage swing dance practicum and social dance on Monday nights with DJ'ed music in a cozy NE PDX setting. Series title: Beyond Conversational Lindy Hop Series description: In this class series, we’ll challenge dancers to structure their partnerships from a “Call and Response” framework grounded in reciprocity, full participation, and collective experiences. While we often refer to this framework as “conversational” Lindy Hop, our class series will focus on the dance partnership as we explore the cultural foundations of Lindy Hop, storytelling, and musicality. Pre-reqs: Intermediate+ Level - should have an understanding of conversational lindy hop; know how to do a swing out Individual class titles/labels Week 1: The Cultural Origins of [Conversational] Lindy Hop: Embracing the Artistry of “Call and Response” “In her book Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America, [Geneva] Smitherman describes this as ‘spontaneous verbal and nonverbal interaction betw