Blues Dance Stories

Blues Dancing is gaining popularity in the swing dance community and it's about time. A street dance, like Lindy, it never was considered a "real" dance as far as the studios are concerned, but it's always been one of my favorites. Close and sexy, it's been around in one form or another for decades. My favorite eavesdrop story was overheard just before a Steven Mitchell workshop. One of the greatest and most innovative jazz dancers of all time, Steven was teaching a blues class as part of this weekend workshop. A friend of his dropped by and was having a conversation that I overheard. "Blues dancing?" said the friend, "What's that?" "You know," said Steven, with enough of a demonstration to get the idea. "You have to teach that?" said the friend. "Evidently," said Steven.