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What is Blues Dancing?

"Blues Dancing" is an umbrella term for the wide and diverse genre of dances done to a similarly wide and diverse genre of music with the same name.  We hope to have a more complete description of individual dances (also referred to as idioms) as well as examples up soon! But until then, please take a look Laura Chieko's article on Blues Dance Idioms

An umbrella labled "blues dancing" showing several styles of blues dances listed under it divided into two categories. The first is ballrooming blues with dances such as strut, stride, and savoy walk. The second category is jukin blues with dances such as texas shuffle, funky butt, strutting, and piedmont triple. Another dance, slow drag, is displayed as on the border of both.

About Bayshore Blues

We're a group of friends who share a passion for live music, and a penchant for geeking out about dance movement and history. We strongly believe that it's important to know where we came from to better judge where to go from here.

Many of us have been dancing in the Bay Area for over a decade in addition to traveling far and wide to learn as much as we can to bring back home. We hope to share the joy of partner dancing and love of live music with as many people as we can. 

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