The steps can go off in any direction and the dance has a wild crazy attitude and can get downright silly. Lindy was the first swing dance, so it’s not surprising that you see a lot of Lindy in every dance that came later. The look and feel of each dance is unique. There are differences in the rules of the dances, but a lot it comes down to style. If you slow it down, it can look a lot like West Coast Swing and you could borrow a lot of the moves and adapt them. It’s danced in a slot, but while 8 count moves are allowed, it’s primarily a six count dance. There is also cross over in a lot of the jazz variations.īoogie Woogie bears a lot of similarity to West Coast Swing. You play with the music, do jazz variations on the breaks, and converse creatively with your partner in the language of dance in all three. They’re all jazz dances, which means there is room for freeplay within the context of the lead and follow. People ask me about it, so I thought I’d include it here.Īll three dances have their roots in the same place and share much in common. Boogie is a European dance that you are unlikely to see in this country, but I fell in love with it and spent 8 summers in Sweden and Norway studying it. I’m going to focus on 3 different types of Swing: Lindy Hop, West Coast Swing, and Boogie Woogie. I’m going to keep it relatively simple in this post, however. And as if that wasn’t confusing enough, there are different styles within the same dance! If you’re a novice, it’s hard enough telling completely different genres apart let alone the variations in one category. Swing is a broad category that includes many different dances.

Mamta wala Boogie Woogie dance