Swing Craving
Sep. 14th, 2005 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bethlakshmiAh... listening to Hell from Squirrel Nut Zippers, Zoot Suit Riot from Cherry Poppin' Daddies, and Jump Jive an' Wail by the Brian Seltzer Orchestra, I'm reminded of how much I love swing style stuff. And how it seems to have gone out of vogue on pop radio. It started as just meandering for Baby Dolls - Out For Blood and the October show (trying to run ahead of the ball) - but now I'm just thinking about how much I like swing dancing and how it's been a long time since I did it regularly at all and how I miss my college partner - who was the assistant instructor at the class I used to go to.
Makes think of what can I do using actual Swing moves in a Baby Dolls Something... doing swing moves solo is pretty rough - it's really a pairs dance. I suppose to have a couple do it, we'd either need some schtick, or they'd have to be really showy and terrific. The latter rules me out - as I am too Glamazon proportioned for any of the really sensational lifts, unless you happen to be Vis... and we don't really have a schedule that supports me becomin Truly Phenomenal on ground work, so that a no-lift routine would fly.
But shtick... yes shtick... hmm... I'd readily dress as a guy in a Zoot Suit, if it meant I got to do swing. I'm a natural leader in ballroom, anyway, and I can reverse my brain to do the male part if the female is a good follower.
Can you do swing and remove your partner's clothing? Would the girl-as-guy being sexy thing transfer to big band clothing? There's a good story here... I just gotta find it...
Also lusting after the Folkwear Flamenco Dress - hmm... latin routine? Latin is a lot easier to do alone... there's a fabulous Flamencoish strip peice on the Burlesque video.
Makes think of what can I do using actual Swing moves in a Baby Dolls Something... doing swing moves solo is pretty rough - it's really a pairs dance. I suppose to have a couple do it, we'd either need some schtick, or they'd have to be really showy and terrific. The latter rules me out - as I am too Glamazon proportioned for any of the really sensational lifts, unless you happen to be Vis... and we don't really have a schedule that supports me becomin Truly Phenomenal on ground work, so that a no-lift routine would fly.
But shtick... yes shtick... hmm... I'd readily dress as a guy in a Zoot Suit, if it meant I got to do swing. I'm a natural leader in ballroom, anyway, and I can reverse my brain to do the male part if the female is a good follower.
Can you do swing and remove your partner's clothing? Would the girl-as-guy being sexy thing transfer to big band clothing? There's a good story here... I just gotta find it...
Also lusting after the Folkwear Flamenco Dress - hmm... latin routine? Latin is a lot easier to do alone... there's a fabulous Flamencoish strip peice on the Burlesque video.
