What's the Big Deal?
Be the greatest lindy hopper in the world! J/K!
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Why are we throwing Inspiration Weekend?
Southern California is a mecca of social dancing. With all the opportunities for weekly local dancing we don't end up traveling to get our dancing fix. Therefore So. Cal. dancers don't get exposed to the national and international lindy hop scene and the inspiration that goes with it.
Our goal PART 1: To bring out instructors who are both inspired and inspiring to share their latest ideas and passions for dance.
Our goal PART 2: To host creative contests to help inspire social dancers to participate in the competitive aspect of lindy hop. Our contest part of the event is called "Inspiration Cup".
Thoughts by Naomi Uyama that pushed us to do this weekend event.
"I am a lover of analogies, it can get a little
ridiculous, but here is one of my faves. Imagine that
all the lindy hoppers out there are people running in
a pack. There are all kinds of runners, some faster,
some slower. Though they move together they are
running for different reasons. Some run like it is a
race, they are moving forward to be first, to be
faster than others, to win. Others run towards the
horizon, a distant, beautiful, point that cannot be
reached. They move forward so that we all may move
forward, they know the secret lies in the exhilaration
of running itself.
So here is the funny thing about "racers". They
stare at the backs of the people in front of them and
and toil to beat them, but if they ever did pull ahead
to the very front of the pack guess what would happen-
they would stop dead in their tracks. Their goal
would be achieved, they would stop running, the dance
would stop moving forward. It is the ones who see the
horizon, the runners who are in for the journey and
not the destination that will always continue. They
feel less the work of it and more the joy in it.
Those are the dancers that inspire me."
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