[Dixielandjazz] Swing Dancers vs. Listeners

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The Swing Dancers of today 2012 era have unfortunatelylearned their dances about the same way as many OKOM b ands have learned toPlay, from listening to old recordings and attending classes in the Academicworld.
 
Most have absolutely no experience of ever dancing orplaying to a real authentic band or audience of dancers.
 
So they both are dong what they think is appropriateAcademically.  In other words towhat they have been programmed to believe is the real deal.
 
This is what co0mes from Teachers teaching what they havenever experienced nor actually tried to see if it really works.  They teach theory with no practicalapplications.   Hence SwingDancers showing up at a live gig for bands like Barbonestreet asking for temposof the songs in specific time.  Horseshit@ Dance to the Band and if the band swings you should be able to swing as hardas they do J)If you can’t, then keep dancing to your damned records.
Of course the same thing applies to the Band they come to danceto!!  If you don’t have the fire inyour belly and gumption to play as hard as they can dance do not insult themusic or yourself by taking the gig and their money to play it.
And another thing I have seen with the new Swing Dance clubsis that they are so academically anally retentive that they can’t even dancewith an alcoholic beverage or two, hence yet another reason the club ownerskicked out OKOM and music for dancers, especially in the smaller rooms.  Why??  Because, if you fill the room up with Dancers who do notconsume alcohol and also do not want to pay a cover charge to hear the band theclub makes no money either.  Thereforethe club owner who is basically in the alcohol business quickly learns that thewannabe professional dancers do not drink and do not support his business butonly come there to take advantage of the Band he Pays to play.  Hummmmm… 
 At the sametime the local drunks who come to get rowdy and have a good time and dance oneor two times a night if they can get off the bar stool without falling down andactually get their courage up enough to try and dance, and try to go home withthe lady that finally got them up to dance.
And they all then have to deal with the cranky folks whojust came to listen to the music and don’t want to hear any people having agood time around them.
Can they all just get along?    Nope not a chance Jbut keep trying:

  Bart.