Tonight I turned 27. By chance, this fell onto a Tuesday, and there is a great dancing party every Monday. This monday, there was also a great band, the Souvenirs. They’re pure fun and great for dancing - so I obviously opted to celebrate my birthday there.

This probably was the nicest birthday party I’ve ever had: lots of friends showed up (though mostly girls, but thats fine with me :-)), we danced a lot. And danced. And danced. :-) And I’ll probably spend some more hours today dancing later this day.

And with dancing I mean: Swing, Lindy Hop, Balboa. I just love this music and these dances. So playful, sometimes cheeky - swinging…

Would you like to swing on a star
Carry moonbeams home in a jar

Todays music was also great, a nice speed and patterns you could play with… I don’t know what it is, adrenaline?, that makes dancing so much fun. And probably the communication. Dancing is all about communication. There was this class titled “Moves that make the follow smile” once… That is the best moment in a dance, when you managed to lead the follow into some slight variations or some fun move matching the music, it worked out great and you see this flash of delight in their face… this “I’m not sure what we just did, but it felt just so right”-smile. The “I didn’t know we could do that”-smile. That’s what I’m striving for. Sometimes there are some moments in a song where this works out great, and occasionally there is a song where it works out through most of the song. These are the really great moments when dancing.

Sorry, no pictures or videos. Just memories.

Keep on swingin’!

I’m really looking forward to events such as Senigallia (Summer Jamboree) or the Munich Lindy Exchange.

And of course our regular events here in Munich, such as our Thursday open air get-together at Hofgarten, sundays in Salon Erna and mondays in Cord.