(100%) 1: Modern Savoy

(96%) 2: Groove Style Lindy

(95%) 3: Balboa/Bal-Swing

(93%) 4: Blues

(91%) 5: Hybrid Lindy

(83%) 6: West Coast Swing

(80%) 7: Collegiate Shag

(71%) 8: Hollywood/Smooth/Dean Collins Style Lindy

(53%) 9: Original Harlem Savoy Style

(50%) 10: East Coast Swing

how do i get modern savoy, groove, balboa and blues all above 90%?

Stereotypical savoy style (imo) [Emoticon not found] :

wardrobe -- bleyers, adidas track pants, savoy-style t-shirt

fave teachers & dancers -- david dalmo, steven mitchell and erin stevens, ryan francois and jenny thomas

style -- definite bounce throughout any song.

etc...

Not many here are old enough to remember these two at byu.

But seriously...

mikey faltesek:

savoy style is such a funny term. I agree with Norma Millers definition of the term, to her savoy style was trying to dance faster than everyone else. Because that is how the dancers at the savoy seperated themesleves from the rest of the lindy hoppers and how they won almost every harvest moon ball.

Read on.

btw, I dedicate falty's quote to PTS!

Percent Rank Item

(100%) 1: Original Harlem Savoy Style

(91%) 2: Hollywood/Smooth/Dean Collins Style Lindy

(89%) 3: Collegiate Shag

(87%) 4: Balboa/Bal-Swing

(74%) 5: Modern Savoy

(71%) 6: Blues

(68%) 7: East Coast Swing

(64%) 8: Hybrid Lindy

(59%) 9: Groove Style Lindy

(43%) 10: West Coast Swing

LMAO... here's mine:

(100%) 1: Modern Savoy

(95%) 2: West Coast Swing

(90%) 3: Blues

(89%) 4: Groove Style Lindy

(75%) 5: Hybrid Lindy

(69%) 6: Original Harlem Savoy Style

(67%) 7: Collegiate Shag

(60%) 8: Balboa/Bal-Swing

(50%) 9: East Coast Swing

(50%) 10: Hollywood/Smooth/Dean Collins Style Lindy

I think whoever wrote the quiz really likes what they term "Modern Savoy". That's just jacked up... [Emoticon not found]

T_roach:

Stereotypical savoy style (imo) [Emoticon not found] . . .

right, but what i don't get is what they're calling "modern savoy" because no one who got 100% on that "style" dances with much of a bounce, or much like what you or i tend to think what "savoy" is.

:shrug:

(100%) 1: Groove Style Lindy

(96%) 2: Blues

(91%) 3: Hybrid Lindy

(89%) 4: Modern Savoy

(77%) 5: Original Harlem Savoy Style

(74%) 6: Hollywood/Smooth/Dean Collins Style Lindy

(64%) 7: Collegiate Shag

(51%) 8: East Coast Swing

(50%) 9: Balboa/Bal-Swing

(43%) 10: West Coast Swing

bobthecow:

i noticed that nobody here is 69% blues, 31% lindy... you'd think we would have at least a couple.

i seem to have seen a few shirts around.

just goes to show they're all really lindy bums trying to fit in with the rest of the so called blues dancers!

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flame away!

SpecialK:

Note to self: Don't refer to West Coast as WC around Europeans . . .

If only Europeans used "WC" to refer to as "Water Closet" instead of the World Cup... THEN we'd have a real good reason to refer to West Coast as WC!

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Kill him, Kill HIM

t_roach:

He has a point, don'cha know. ::hides from roommate::

which roommate are you hiding from? (i know where you sleep...)

t_roach:

Oh ya, I know where you eat! ... so... THERE! ::still hiding from roommate(S)::

at that italian place... that was pretty good...

del.icio.us

hijacked!

Geek

(so who unofficially turned every thread into word association?)

i dont' think anyone turned it into a word association thread... i think we were calling eachother names.

bobthecow:

i dont' think anyone turned it into a word association thread... i think we were calling eachother names.

Exactly!

Doofie-head!

um. that's a pretty lame insult.

I think you insulted yourself when you said doofie-head.

sure... blame us!

(100%) 1: Blues

(86%) 2: Groove Style Lindy

(85%) 3: Modern Savoy

(76%) 4: Hybrid Lindy

(69%) 5: West Coast Swing

(68%) 6: East Coast Swing

(60%) 7: Original Harlem Savoy Style

(53%) 8: Balboa/Bal-Swing

(50%) 9: Collegiate Shag

(42%) 10: Hollywood/Smooth/Dean Collins Style Lindy

Hmmm - interesting. Maybe I should learn how to blues better, eh?

spencewebb:

for fun at 130 am when I can't sleep and I remember byu has forums and the post was hijacked from original topic and wont matter but it was a fun quiz and I hope you all are doing well, hope you can sleep cause I can't man and I can't get the sound working on this computer so no music! sweet summer and no constant class busywork! whoo!

welcome to the club, spence!

I think that when Mel thinks blues, what she's really thinking is "Slow Drag"

t_roach:

For example, George Christopherson. In my eyes, he is a jitterbug from head to toe, in ever sense of the word. He is a contemporary of Dean Collins. I would also label his dancing as Lindy Hop, because Dean Collins would and because when I see him dance and hear the music he is dancing to, I think Lindy Hop. But Jeremy (of Provo-Orem) says it's straight up West Coast. BAM! Right there folks. Different names, same dancing.

He gets labeled as dancing west coast? whoa!

I kind of wish I could find a copy of this one old clip of Sonny Watson dancing back in the early 80's... you all would probably think he is doing some sort of Lindy, but he is pure WCS through and through. What George (and his partner--she is an important determiner of the dance) were doing in that one clip was solid WCS... it was about the 1990's when the dances actually started looking very different and WCS was danced to much slower music (and some people could still dance to really fast music). Keep in mind that WCS has existed since the 1930's and you all are assuming that anything danced before the 1960's (sometimes 90's) was Lindy. Perhaps y'all aren't quite aware of the classic differences between the dances--some of the old clips are actually WCS and some are definitely Lindy. There's not a huge difference, but there is one.

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Boogaloo:

Interesting... I was at a Lindy Hop workshop this weekend, and the teacher there was telling his story about how he came to do lindy. He said west coast and lindy were pretty similar until the 70s when disco came into the picture and changed the whole dance to what it is today

Sounds like he's been around--I don't think anyone would argue with that. Yeah, they all kind of danced to the much of the same music pre-70's and had very few remarkable stylistic differences. I'd even go as far as to say that the music was similar (though not the same) through the early 80's. If you look carefully, you can see a distinct difference in the dances though.

There are even some really old clips from the 40's or 50's (I couldn't really tell) where you can see several couples doing West Coast Swing and one or two doing Lindy. Back then, the Lindy dancers generally looked much more dynamic so you could see the distinction. And Dean Collins clips are usually a great example; everyone else is dancing primitive WCS while he is totally in the Lindy zone... but yeah... there's been some controversy about Dean. I say he's got pure Lindy roots (but could still dance with people of any style). JMO.