Cross-training is well-established as a way to improve your dancing. Skills acquired in one dance often complement those acquired in your first. Folks who start out lindy hopping bring those skills with them to blues dancing and most of the time this helps them advance quickly through beginning and intermediate blues courses. However, some key features of lindy hop can be counter-productive to "looking like a blues dancer". A brief aside: when it comes to social blues dancing

There are a metric fuckton of philosophical posts about following out there. I've been thinking about my own understandings ever since one of the raddest lindy hop follows I know, Jenna Applegarth, posted a mega post a while back. I couldn't be typing them without the thoughtful conversation I had with Cindy Lyons (Tampa) and Avery Finn (Denver) in the wee hours of the morning after Lindy Diversion this past weekend. Credit where credit's due. I'd like to suggest that when li