#i’m a 4th gen swing dancer & there’s smth so special abt dancing to the same songs prev gen swing dancers in my family did

[sarcasmic-skies]

hearing the opening notes of ‘sing, sing, sing’ and the collective groan from everyone at the swing dance. bc it is SUCH a good song and it is THE swing dancing song BUT it’s the full 8 minutes & 40 seconds you’re committing to dance to at an unending fast tempo and by the end EVERYONE is experiencing the gasping for air with burning lungs and quivering muscles and slippery palms and cramps under the ribs and beads of sweat running down your body like raindrops on a windshield and your feet weigh a thousand pounds but you can’t NOT dance. you can’t slow down. you can’t quit halfway. you HAVE to make it to the end. so ‘sing, sing, sing’ comes on and there’s the collective groan and then the frantic scrambling for a partner and then the aggressive jockeying for a space on the dance floor and THEN everyone comes alive to the sweet sounds of benny goodman & his orchestra and the feeling is unlike anything else in the world

#it’s a religious experience #i’m a 4th gen swing dancer & there’s smth so special abt dancing to the same songs prev gen swing dancers in my family did #god i fucking love swing dancing #i have been elbowed and kicked and hit too many times to count during this song #defensive dancing is a MUST for this song #ty posts #ty posts!!!!!! #benny goodman #sing sing sing #swing dancing #swing dance #lindy hop #big band era #swing era #ty swing dance posting