Coolshoes - Sing SIng and Lindy Hop

I am sooooo excited for this Saturday.....excited and slightly nervous.

Coolshoes, the OSU ballroom dance team, will be dancing in Medford on Saturday at the Armory for the Medford Jazz Jubilee. The thing is, this is only week 2 of the Fall Term, and in the past Coolshoes doesn't really just do performances that soon. We have basicly only had 4 class periods to learn everything. That means 8 constructed hours. This also means that the 16 of us, 8 couples, have had to really get our butts in gear and practice a bunch out side of class.

SO what am I personally doing? We have two routines, Sing Sing which is single time swing and Lindy Hop. I got really lucky in that both my partners have been on Coolshoes before and really know what they are doing. This also means that they know how to do tricks. Sing Sing is almost all technical and doesn't have very many tricks BUT Lindy is basicly all tricks. For that so far, my partner and I have been assigned 3 different tricks. Kind of cool!

The Photo that is above is the 2001 Coolshoes group. I put this up so that you can see the costumes we will be waring for Lindy. My partner and I are Yellow. If you want a little more history and old Pics of Coolshoes the link is bellow.

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