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Blues dancing, properly speaking is a term that covers an entire genre of aestheticaly, culturally and musically connected dances. Like Swing, the Blues dances originated and evolved from African rhythms and movements. However, Blues dancing was never widely practiced as a "social" or performance dance in the United States outside of the Black communities; so it developed and thrived in smoky juke joints and at Blues house parties, giving it a more intimate feel. Swing is a group of related street dances that evolved from Lindy Hop. ...
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Because Blues dance lacked wider social approval and appeal, it remained strongly entrenched in African principles of movement, not only in the motion of the hips, but in the characteristic creation of, and dancing within, a boundary.
In addition, Blues dance is strongly tied to Blues music, and many aspects of Blues dance (for example, call and response, emotional intensity, and tension and release) are directly related to the music to which it is danced. There are many types of blues music (rural, urban, up-tempo, slow, electric, delta, modern), and therefore many types of Blues dance, all with very different nuances and emotions. The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. ...
Blues dance, like most Black vernacular dances, enables intense individuality in expressing the music, emphasizing that the music, not the dancer, leads the dance; the dancer is simply the interpreter. Blues dance demonstrates the passion of the entire range of human emotions - from sadness to joy - not just sensuality. If you don't have a visceral reaction to the music, your partner, and the environment, then you are missing the true beauty of Blues dance.
Learning Blues dancing enables the dancer to more fully understand dance concepts such as simplicity, clarity, creativity, expression, intensity, and musical and emotional interpretation that are critical to advanced social dancing of any kind.
Content used with permission from http://www.blues-dance.com.
See also
Dance moves or Dance steps, are the building blocks of many dances. ...
Lindy Hop is a street jazz dance that evolved in Harlem, Manhattan, New York in the late 1920s and early 1930s that emerged with swing jazz. ...
The Slow Drag is an American social dance usually performed to blues music. ...
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