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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeJan 26th 2007
     
    Hot Chocolate:

    Alright then... I am the all and be all of all dances in Utah... if anyone has a problem that.. Go suck a lemon!!

    i do have a problem with that!

    it doesn't make much sense. i think you must have left out a word or something.

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    Me no miss now ords.. I'd ont know yopu talk foo

    • CommentAuthorspencer
    • CommentTimeJan 26th 2007 edited
     

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeJan 26th 2007
     

    I think he was referring to the word "that" that should have been in there.

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    Or maybe the word "with".

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    Word

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeJan 26th 2007
     

    Why can't you spell right Ron. I hate you!! Let's fight!

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    Challenge accepted!!! Meet me at the elementary school playground.. You know the one I'm talking about... midnight.. Be there...floozie!!

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2007
     

    floozie?

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    Hey!! You want some of this?? Furball!!

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    ElChuy:

    floozie?

    No wait... actually, I think he was asking me to come...

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2007
     
    Hot Chocolate:

    Hey!! You want some of this?? Furball!!

    bling it peuny-boy, bling it gud!

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    No, no... I love everyone... you're all my friends... don't mind me.. I'm just your typical garden variety manic depressive

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2007
     
    Hot Chocolate:

    Challenge accepted!!! Meet me at the elementary school playground.. You know the one I'm talking about... midnight.. Be there...floozie!!

    So what up Ron? I ruled the jungle gym and the monkey bars.

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    Buzz:

    Who said we have a Lindy Hop scene? I believe the common term is swing scene.

    Uh, we DO have a lindy hop scene, and you're a part of it. I think the meaning of the term "swing scene" varies greatly depending on who's saying it. Mostly I think it's an easier term to say than "lindy hop scene" or "west coast scene." Because it's easier, lindy hoppers will say "swing scene" and mean "lindy hop scene," and west coast swing dancers will say "swing scene" and mean "west coast scene." Yes, in broad terms, "swing scene" means all the lindy hoppers, west coast swing dancers, country swing dancers, and street swing dancers/east coast swing dancers. But that is kind of ridiculous, isn't it? When I'm at an exchange or some other event and someone says "how's the swing scene in Utah?" I'm not going to say "It's really, really big, but most of it is country swing." If I were to say something like that I think I'd be taken as a weirdo. When west coast swing dancers say "swing scene" I doubt us lindy hoppers are anywhere in their minds.

    Yeah, the golden skillet, BYU, USU, and whatever else are part of our "swing scene," but 90-99% of the swing dancing done in those venues is lindy hop/charleston/balboa and therefore fits the term "lindy hop" scene just fine. No one asks "how's the charleston scene in Utah?" It probably happens, but I've never heard anyone ask about a "balboa scene." One of the definitions for "scene" from Webster says it's a "sphere of activity." For those of us participating in dances at the skillet, BYU, and USU, our sphere of activity revolves around lindy hop and is therefore a lindy hop scene, but it's easier to say swing scene. I don't care if you throw in 5 west coast songs night*, it still revolves around lindy hop. Make them west coast venues and watch them die.

    * Please don't!

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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2007
     

    Country Swing?!?!? Is it wise to acknolwedge it with a name that has no meaning? Just call it country dancing and be done with it.

    • CommentAuthorlindysnob
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2007
     

    the country dance scene really is alot more than country swing. in fact most "real" country dancers never actually do "country "swing. the crap...oops, i mean country swing dancing is moslty done by people who are begiiners in many dance scenes.

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeJan 29th 2007
     
    popthestack:

    It probably happens, but I've never heard anyone ask about a "balboa scene."

    I believe that one gets asked quite often by visiting balboa dancers.

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeJan 29th 2007
     

    I second the notion of only calling it country dance, and not country swing

    Or maybe country fling dancing... as in, you fling people into other people/objects

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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeJan 29th 2007
     

    country fling is still misleading. It sounds too close.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeJan 30th 2007
     

    i've called it the "whip and spin" before, or the "whip and dislocate" too.

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    Silvia Skylar will be teaching the lessons before the dances on Tues. nights at Studio 600 starting this coming Tues. Feb. 6th. Her lessons will go from 8-9pm then the dance will be from 9-12pm.

    Cost is still $4.00 if you come to the lesson or before 9:30pm and $6.00 if you come after 9:30pm.

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    whoo hoo! I'm excited for the lessons by Sylvia.

    t_roach:
    popthestack:

    It probably happens, but I've never heard anyone ask about a "balboa scene."

    I believe that one gets asked quite often by visiting balboa dancers.

    True, but the "balboa scene" is really just a subset of the lindy hop scene, I think. So the question is really "how many people in your lindy hop scene do you have that dance balboa?" Maybe I'm wrong though... it's happened before.

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2007
     

    I would say that depends on where you are. Here in utah, maybe. However in SoCal there is most definitely a balboa scene that is very much separate from the lindy scene. The same goes for the blues scenes in some parts of the country.

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2007
     

    Chewdawg knows what I'm saying.

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2007
     

    there are a ton of portland blues dancers that don't lindy. they're almost more connected with the tango dancers than the swing scene.

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2007
     

    Exactly. While it is possible that there is a majority (ie +50%, not 99%) of blues and bal dancers that also lindy, there is also a significant proportion of those scenes that are not lindy hoppers, and that do no form of swing whatsoever.

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    yes... i love it!!!

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2007
     
    Hot Chocolate:

    yes... i love it!!!

    wtf, mate?

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    Yeah... so whatever though. We are still in a lindy hop scene.

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    dude... we are blues/westie hop

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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2007
     

    I was impressed that the USU Big Band Swing club didn't play a westie song all weekend. Or at least not when I was listening.

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    ummmm.... that would probably be because of the DJ lineup... and that it was a lindy hop event

    • CommentAuthorhepkat
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2007
     
    Hot Chocolate:

    ummmm.... that would probably be because of the DJ lineup... and that it was a lindy hop event

    Dude! It's Harlem Nights!
    Vintage, baby. Vintage.

    • CommentAuthorspencer
    • CommentTimeFeb 8th 2007
     

    for lack of stylistic flair and entertainment when it had several sparks with which to be so, this thread gets an F.

    I hope studio 600 itself is more compelling since it's so far away and i hate parking downtown when i don't have free tickets to jazz at the sheraton.

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    Maybe we should get some sort of shock device that shocks DJs whenever they play a westie song.

    Ya know... at Harlem Nights and ULX when Kenny played some late night westie songs I didn't mind tooo much. Why? #1 his westie music doesn't suck AS bad and #2 because I was watching him and/or Ryan B. dance to it. Me dance to it? Yuck. Watch some good westie? Not so bad like once or twice.

    This is not an excuse to play westie songs at BYU (I will still yell at you!) because I don't enjoy watching anyone in Utah do that westie stuff. Sorry everyone.

    And? I know my opinion is totally the most important thing.

    Studio 600 is cool. Come one come all!

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    I liike that... the shock thingy... I'm down for helping you with a prototype... hey we can try it on buzz at the next BYU dance he djs

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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2007
     

    I haven't ahd trouble parking at Studio 600, you just need to come while the price is still $4

    and possibly park around the corner.

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2007
     
    Hot Chocolate:

    I liike that... the shock thingy... I'm down for helping you with a prototype... hey we can try it on buzz at the next BYU dance he djs

    Sweet. I love being shocked.

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    Sweet..... prepare to be shocked... there's a double meaning to that.. Seeing as how I will be djing this saturday night...

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    Yeah, the parking at Studio 600 isn't bad.

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    Studio 600 Update: Tuesday, Feb 13th

    Happy Valentine's Day

    Thanks to everyone who came to the lessons last week!! We had a great time learning from Sylvia! For those who didn't make it, there is still room for more!!

    Come learn from one of the BEST Swing Dancers in the NATION!!

    HERE'S THE INFO

    Lessons: 8:00 - 9:00pm, taught by Sylvia Skylar

    Dancing: 9:00 - Midnight

    DJ: Michelle Poole

    Cost: $4.00 (until 9:30pm then it's $6.00)

    Location: 26 East 600 South

    We don't know how long Sylvia will be teaching at Studio 600, so don't miss out!!!

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    Studio 600: Tuesday, Feb 20th

    Come learn from one of the BEST Lindy Hop Dancers in the NATION!!

    HERE'S THE INFO

    Lessons: 8:00 - 9:00pm, taught by Sylvia Skylar ( http://www.erikandsylvia.com/ )

    Dancing: 9:00 - Midnight

    DJ: Tara

    Cost: $4.00

    Location: 26 East 600 South

    We don't know how long Sylvia will be teaching at Studio 600, so don't miss out!!!

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    Studio 600: Tuesday, Feb 27th

    Come have some fun tonight!!


    HERE'S THE INFO

    Lessons: 8:00 - 9:00pm, taught by Shane and Julie.
    (Sylvia is in California )

    DJ: Julie

    Cost: $4.00

    Location: 26 East 600 South

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    Studio 600: Tuesday, Mar 6th

    HERE’S THE INFO

    Lessons: 8:00 – 9:00pm, taught by Shane and Julie

    Dancing: 9:00 - Midnight

    DJ: Julie Shurtliff

    Cost: $4.00

    Location: 26 East 600 South

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    We are sorry to announce that Studio 600 will not be happening any more. If you have any questions pm or email Shane or Julie. [Emoticon not found]

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    BOOOO!!!!... BOOO!!!... JK

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 2nd 2008
     

    way-old videos from studio 600 are on youtube!
    a dean collins shim sham, a swing jam performance, and byu swing team performance.

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      CommentAuthorshorty18
    • CommentTimeSep 26th 2008
     

    Is there dancing at this studio anymore?

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    Lots just not swing

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