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June 21 2024 Portland Lindy Exchange

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Pictures of me and a nice follow,take earlier this year at the Portland Lindy. Exchange. I remember dancing with this woman.  She was delightful and fun to dance with. Hopefully we can dance in the future 

pontus and Isabella

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Picture with Isabella and pontus.  It is funny that they remember me from other eventf We discussed connection.  It is one of the most important part in dancing.   Today we learned about an extended circle.  At first I thought they were just doing a swing out variation, and after a couple of rotations with different partners, I realized  that they were talking to me,  because it is not a swing out variation it really is circle to open.  It is probably that my swing out is really similar to a circle.  I stopped and tried to count but  I stop paying attention to the follower, so I go back to looking at the shapee   The followers were mostly coming in from the open position into the circle on their own. I was having problems getting a good connection.  Isabella talked about the dance being one that starts from tension.  Thus the rock step or a swivel gives that necessary tension to allow to come togeth...