The Time for Town Dancer is coming

Town Dancer blog with Calvin and Richard blogging is moving even farther ahead of whatever is in second place. Now, we really have to go for Guest Authors to open, post and close all by themselves without saying "excuse me" to anyone.

"You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could

and should do for themselves."

No annual or monthly meeting. No annual fees or monthly dues. And they can write whenever they damn well please. We cannot get any stricter than that.

Calvin and Richard have both shown interest in Swing. I include an excerpt from an interview with the famous Frankie Manning.

When did you start dancing?

I actually started dancing in 1927. At the time I was 13 years old. I like to say I started dancing then because that’s the first time I can remember going to a ballroom, where there were kids around my age that were dancing. It was the first time I actually had an opportunity to dance with a young lady.

And was that all swing?

At that time it was called swing. Lindy hop had just begun. The youngsters were doing what we had done before, like the Charleston and the dance we called the breakaway, which is the Lindy Hop, period. But at that time it was swing music, so the dance just went along with the music.

Had you studied other kinds of dance before you did swing?

I didn’t study any dancing, period. I never went to dancing school or anything. I just went to dances and watched other people dance and picked up what I saw them doing.

So at the time you called it swing, you didn’t call it jitterbug or lindy hop?

Jitterbug wasn’t even a name back in 1927. The word jitterbug didn’t come about until the mid-thirties. Around ‘37, ‘38, ‘39.

How long after you started dancing did you actually start performing?

I didn’t start performing on stage until 1937, which would be 10 years later

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Pub's Side Note: Is it possible that Frankie Manning could evolve into the swing icon of the 20th century without a professional teacher. Unbelievable..

So Town Dancer is overdue to become the first independent dance blog in Hawaii. I will stay but only as a Guest Author and get my two cents in once in a while. But the administrators will run it and it will be Social Media.