Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Yx and I had quite the unique experience today - we had a lesson from So You Think You Can Dance 2 winner, Benji Schwimmer. He was here as one of the guests on The Dance Floor finals, which we missed. =\
In any case, we arrived at Shawn & Glady's studio this evening clad in our usual Lindy attire (i.e. street wear with sneakers/2-tone Bleyers) and we arrived to a studio full of ...
latin dancers wearing skimpy skirts and high heels. Huh? Did they know exactly what swing dancing entails? Sure enough, Benji made them go barefooted instead. Was fun seeing latin dancers trying hard (in vain) to abandon the Cuban hip movement and Jive's bouncing up and down, and instead do Swing dancing's "bounce into the ground" movements. Hmmm. Hopefully this session would interest some of them into taking up swing dancing. It'd improve their lead and follow techniques, at any rate.
The lesson actually wasn't much, just some of the basic 6-count West Coast Swing, although Benji did it in a way I can never imitate. He is just so ... musical. And pretty funny too, although he probably needs to work a little on teaching skills perhaps? One of the strange things he said, as he got near the mirror, stared at himself and said abruptly, "Hey guys, do you know if there's any sort of seafood that makes your lips turn purple after you eat it?". Apparently his did, after taking seafood before the lesson. Erm .. odd.
Well, more pics on the way - the real pics are actually with him, and he promised that he'll upload them on his blog. We'll see!
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