Swing Out Variations

This section includes Eight-Beat Moves from the Swing Out family. The common characteristics of these moves are that the dancers start in a closed position and use an eight-beat rhythm for the move.

The moves also usually involve one or both of the dancers travelling in a straight line. For the moves that are closest to a normal Swing Out, it is the follower that travels straight forwards, while the leader crosses in front of her path. However, several of the moves in this section involve different paths across the dance floor.

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Welcome to an incomplete book about Lindy Hop.

I wrote the text here five years ago, based on my notes from when I was originally learning Lindy Hop in the mid-1990s. My original plan was to take a large number of illustrative photographs, which would make the bare text much more comprehensible.

However, that was five years ago and I've not gotten as far as taking a single photograph. So rather than waiting any longer, I thought it worth releasing the text as-is, in case it's useful to anyone else.

I'd interested to hear any feedback, but unfortunately I can't promise to do much about it.

And maybe one day I'll get as far as illustrating the book, and creating the originally-intended printed version:

This book is dedicated to the memory of Frankie Manning (1914-2009), Ambassador of Lindy Hop.

David Drysdale
November 2012

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