Swing night in SLC

A couple of years ago I used to be quite into dancing. At one point I was going to country swing dancing, the big band swing club, and doing ballroom dance all at the same time. I've kind of slacked off for the past 3-4 years. I decided to change that a couple of weeks ago. I've gone to the country swing dancing several times.

Then yesterday afternoon one of my facebook "friends" posted that there would be a Big Band Swing event in SLC. Complete with a Charleston performance and a Jack and Jill dance competition. I decided to try the event out.  The performance wasn't quite what I was expecting. It was three girls with a choreographed but obviously not too rehearsed routine. It was also obvious that they were having a lot of fun with it so it was fine.

Lining up for Jack and Jill competition

Once I started dancing I realized a few things.  I've forgotten how much fun big bans swing is.. I forgot how much you can "play" with your partner. I realized how much I had actually forgotten. The first time I went out on the dance floor it was pretty sad. I repeated the basic several times between moves while I tried to remember things. Gradually I remembered how to lead through my desired moves.  I noted that there are quite a few people who are really good at Lindy. I spent half the night gawking at them just to try to pick up ideas.  I enjoyed the night enough that I'm going to relearn how to Lindy.