How to East Coast Swing
Specific purpose: My audience will learn how to dance east coast swing in triple time
Thesis: Learning about dance gives a better foundation mentally, physically and emotionally for centering someone’s overall well being.
Introduction:
I. Many of you may not be familiar with East Coast Swing, and not have a dance background, which is just fine.
II. Whenever you’re getting into a new hobby you never truly know if that hobby soon becomes your new passion. According to some Swedish Researchers, writing in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine while doing a experimentation on some teenage girls who suffered from back pain among other afflictions; half that attended dance were said to have improved…show more content… I have been dancing for a total of 6 years, three being a student and the other half being an instructor. Not just of East Coast Swing but of other variations such as hip-hop, Latin and so forth. My mom back in the day was a competitive Disco Salsa and Bachata dancer.
V. Here is one of the easiest dances I’ve been taught, I’ll go through some brief history as well as some terminology. Transition: Let’s start with where it originated.
Body I. Main point 1: Among other dances swing was expanded and made a great change in the jazz era
A. Harry Fox fashioned a dance called the fox trot in 1912, which lead to the development of the Charleston in the Roaring 1920's. The music evolved into swing-jazz during the 1930's, and attracted big bands, large dance halls, and acrobatic dancers called jitterbugs, lindy-hoppers (named after pilot Charles Lindbergh), and swingers. By 1936 the swing was popular throughout the United States.
B. East Coast Swing predicated from the swing dance Lindy Hop back in the 1940’s created by different dancers and studios in response to the new fad of jazz music era.
C. Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley popularized it to mainstream media (given the tempo was faster paced and not in the “blues” and “jazz” phase anymore
Transition: Now lets look into the health benefits of