Jamboree

Well I made it out of bed and over to Oyate bright and early on Thursday to man the table at nine in the morning. This in itself is a huge (personal) accomplishment. Needless to say, there were few others out and about at 9, other than people from other classes who also were standing at their tables. Basically no one stopped by the table during my half hour there to do anything other than ask what was in the food (provided by the 3 o'clock section) so there wasn't a whole lot of good conversation happening then.

I stopped by the table again a little before our section started (at noon) and traffic looked like it had picked up a bit. Audience participation in the swing dancing took a while to arrive, but by about halfway through our section we were getting a decent number of stragglers to join in for at least a few minutes. Teaching the Charleston seemed to be what actually got people to come start in a little bit. It definitely helped once we had most of the class participating rather than standing along the wall. People also seemed to enjoy watching and (some) trying the floor spins.

All in all, the Jamboree went better than I expected after my early morning arrival where there was no one! It was nice to harrass some friends and get them to join in the dancing and just to see what the class had learned from the crash course of sorts that Christina and I gave them over the last few weeks in addition to what some of the class learned from actually coming to swing club.

If anyone is still interested in learning more swing dance moves, they should come by swing club. We're done for this semester, but will eventually be starting up again around January/February and we'll be continuing with lifts. Also there is a Jazz dance next week Saturday, December 9, that a bunch of people from swing are planning to attend.