A room with a door...
Not just a great thing to have in a instructor contract, it's also a great thing to have in the swing dance scene as a whole.
In part 2 of 2, instructor, MC, and Lindy Focus meeting co-host LAUREL RYAN shares with us how the standards of Black Excellence give a warped door for Black instructors to enter the Instructor room, how the swing scene is designed like FaceBook, and how the women's bathroom is the secret to good allyship.
0:00 The standard of Black excellence
5:30 Every bad experience leads to a better rider
11:00 Lindy Hop is a folk dance
19:00 There's a huge difference in how Black men are treated in the scene, and how Black women are treated in the scene
22:00 Promoters and their Black teachers and follower privilege and leader privilege and children
28:00 The threat of marginalized people being edged out
33:00 The intersection of opposing ideas
39:00 How FB and the Swing Scene are designed similarly
45:30 Awkward Allyship
49:00 Women's bathrooms: The secret to Allyship
1:00:00 What do I like about the way that I dance?
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Welcome to Integrated Rhythm! Two Swing Dancing besties (Chisomo Selemani & Bobby White) navigate race and the Black Experience in the world of Jazz Dance and other Afro-centric social dancing. Our goal is comfortable conversations about uncomfortable things.
Special in this episode, our starting music is Barron Ryan. All other music is by Laurel Ryan & Michelle Stokes.
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