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Random Lindy Hop and Balboa Geek Discovery: Bal, Swing and Lindy from the Waist Down (and Something Possibly Amazing)
I recently was looking around stock footage websites when I came across something peculiar: a series of clips of jitterbuggers, several minutes of it, mostly from the waist down. I appears to all be leftover swing-era film footage. At first I thought the clips were simply of random mediocre dance extras, as often happens in…
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Random Balboa Geek Discovery: new information (and possibly misinformation) on the Venice Beach Clip
I have a new fancy post coming today or tomorrow, but I was so excited because today I stumbled upon something that perhaps only a dozen people in this world would really care about, but we really, really care about it. I thought I’d share. (If you’re not a Balboa history fan, though, it probably…
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Swing Analogies–Balboa is like a poem…(cough)
Balboa is like a Poem. Would you like to come up to my room and look at my etchings? This analogy is something I played with years ago when I was trying to figure out the connection between Lindy Hop and Balboa to me personally. I love both equally, and it helped me realize why…
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A Way-Too-Brief History of Balboa
2019 — This Article from 2010 was an early attempt to explain the history of Balboa in a brief way, which was used for some events. Looking back, I don’t think it did a very good job. From what I know now, it is incomplete and misleading. The only reason I still have it…
Swungover* 