Thanks for sharing that Denys.
Your comments actually touch upon something I have been thinking about lately.

> Unfortunately, because they aren't "figures" and have no "steps", they were not assimilated into the was swing dancing has been
> traditionally taught...But, this fusion is useful for giving modern dancers, especially white-bread white dancers, a sense of how much > more free they can be with their bodies while swing dancing...the statistical prevalence of stiff-body dancing attitude among many
> white swing dancers, especially the ones from ballroom dance backgrounds who have been taught to move their hips and body
> certain ways _only_ for latin dancing.)

Sadly, I think that those observations can apply to a lot of dancing nowadays. Sometimes it feels like people are just reciting the moves instead of using dance to express themselves. For several, less emphasis exists on feeling the music through you and actually dancing *with* it. Even with belly dance. You may want to focus on isolating a movement to the hip and remaining still through the rest of the body, but you can be still AND be present in the rest of the body versus just not moving the rest of yourself and having this feeling of disconnect body part to body part. Sometimes people are so focused on technique and getting it right that the ability to feel the music and what you are experiencing seems to be lost. It is interesting that something that I consider as so freeing can also be "restrictive" (being confined to specific moves). Technique and feeling are not mutually exclusive. When they exist together, it is just beautiful to behold how they dance with each other.