those are neo swing dancers
i’ll find out who
oh my

phew! i wouldn’t have known those dancers were of the neo variety without the tip. oh MY!

did you find out who they were?!?!?!?

anyway, now that i’ve had my rant, i hope this event become a monthly so that i can attend when I’m home.

That’s me (Tricia Iveson) and Jeff Booth competing in the Lindy Hop division at the US Open Swing Dance Championships in 1998. Another angle on this shot was sold to the Orange County Register, where we appeared on page 1 the next day. We both still Lindy Hop (though with different partners) competitively. Neither of us is a prostitute in the traditional sense though we will happily prostitute our dancing talents to base events for a bit of chump change.

Lily, I’m not an art bigot. i appreciate art in all it’s forms, though I do have favorites, just like everyone else. i just don’t see why you think that everything you do/care about is relevant to the rest of us. your comments hardly ever express an opinion that is about whatever the thread is about, you typically just talk about yourself.

i should stop this, i’m contradicting myself in giving you the attention you seek.

actually my posts are always relevant about something in the thread/article, in this case - the picture, it’s not like i’m posting non sequiturs

also i was wondering about the picture to see:
1) who was in it
2) where the organizers got it
3) if the subjects were cool with having their image/likeness being used to promote this night, without permission or compensation

please dig your grave further and display your ignorance with generalities about something you obviously don’t know much about, look into swing dancing beyond some one-off movie in the ’90’s and see what dancers do to make this world a better place

e.g. rebuilding the city of New Orleans working with musicians in the birthplace of jazz
e.g. getting kids off the street to learn tap, swing and other jazz vernacular dances in school to inspire them to make the world a better place, in cities, in countries, all over the world
e.g. reviving an art that’s full of joy and not putting down a race, gender, anyone in any way - which can’t be said about some popular forms of mainstream art nowadays

seriously, stop drinking haterade
it’s stunting your brain and its potential for intelligent discourse

Lily,
you forgot the most important accomplishment of swing dancing.

e.g. setting nerds up with an excuse to touch someone of the opposite sex.

seriously though, this is about the stupidest argument i’ve ever seen on BYT. and there have been some stupid ass arguments before. so, lets just all drop it. let the swing dancers go back to rebuilding New Orleans while they relive the good ol’ days of 1998 (you know, when everyone was reliving the good ol’ 1940’s.)

Me, i’m just gonna keep on drinking my haterade (is that hyphenated or what?) which i drink for the electrolytes, obviously.

Swing Heil!!

i was just making conversation and having fun as usual ;-)

i have no right to sue and on the contrary, i’d think Tricia and Jeff would be flattered and might just show up for the party
both party vets of the Black Cat for almost a decade or more now?
i’ll ask Jeff at Jam Cellar tonight and Tricia through her hubby

thanks to Chad, Cale and Michael for the added elements of awesome

that last post obviously wasn’t me
couldn’t even rock my style of posting prose

sketchy to know i have a stalker now
yikes

I agree with my fantastically sassy DJ partner (I’m assuming that last comment was her…): Everybody come and ARGUE TO THE DEATH about silly-ass shit while we play some records! Whee!