Articles, videos and other resources to help you improve your blues dancing.
Our page describing blues dancing aesthetics.
Here is more on the roots of what we call the Blues Aesthetic from The Africanist Aesthetic in American Dance Forms.
A really cool site that lists many of the blues dance moves and shows video clips of the moves in real time and then in slow motion. It is great for learning moves on your own.
An article from dance teacher Jered Morin on The Mysterious and Misunderstood “Pulse” of Swing & Blues Dance.
For more on the different types of blues dancing see What are Blues Idiom Dances?
An in-depth discussion on the history and the variety within Slow Drag , one of the oldest blues dance idioms.
More coming soon…