colorfuloddity:angiemagz:I wish I could dance like this… swing dance.. love the shoes I like seeing
colorfuloddity:angiemagz:I wish I could dance like this… swing dance.. love the shoes I like seeing ~swing dancing gifs~ but something that bugs is that swing dance seems to be, at least in “mainstream representation" (ie not so much in our local scenes etc) “Swing Dancing"/“The Swing” is portrayed as this super duper white, sock hoppy, jukebox-y thing when in reality it was this super fuckin rad athletic street dance invented by Black people and I don’t get how it got so white?This is a cool gif, and one that I would be happy to have represent the dance scene. I don’t know why this gif elicited that response in you, and I won’t say you don’t have a point in that it seems Swing dance and Lindy Hop has been appropriated by white culture - I think it’s odd to start this argument over a joyful swing dance post. -- source link