Yesterday was a day of discovery.
First of all, the musical genre of electronic swing. After some careful tweaking, I've been grooving out to my freshly minted Pandora station based on Parov Stelar's Chambermaid Swing. This remix has the benefit of being accompanied by a particularly trippy video; there is some fantastically wild lindyhop going on in there.
Secondly, I went to my first ever Kizomba class and social. I've dabbled awkwardly in the past a couple of times but never really got it. Yesterday, the theoretical concept of the connection suddenly clicked bodily and BAM, four hours of Kizomba flew by. This was my favorite song of the night.
And thirdly, in the midst of discovering Kizomba, I did a surprise double-discovery and discovered Zouk. Oddly enough, it's danced to the same music as Kizomba, but it's a completely different dance. I think of it as a beautiful rag doll dance. There happened to be a Zouk instructor in the little crowd who was so kind as to spin and weave me through the rest of the Kizomba social folks in spite of my complete ignorance of the dance, and somehow made it appear (probably to the equally ignorant onlooker) that I was actually dancing. Still, I found it to be really beautiful. Here is a video that represents very well what I was not doing:
A fresh addict--and off I go now to dance the night away again.