Lindy Hop is my biggest interest. When I lived in Gothenburg I used to social dance, practice and teach as much as five evenings a week! I wass also part of the showgroup Jump Session, which is part of the association/comunity West Coast Jitterbugs (WCJ) with its about 500 dancers.
My own dance history began with swedish folkdance when I was about 8, but I didn't start with Lindy Hop until the fall -99. In the fall of 2002 I became a member of Jump Session.
WCJ is filled with wonderful and happy people, and I recommend this dance strongly to both young as old, independet of how athletic you are, since this dance has many sides. I have been teaching Lindy for the last four years, giving dancing and acrobatics courses. But Lindy is so much more than the fast acrobatics filled dance you might have in mind from films, in fact the social dancing varies in tempo from slow blues to quite fast and only simpler areals are put into the dance on the social dance floor.
Those pictures, as well as the background picture is from Big Boss Casino, a show that Jump Session gave in the fall of 2003 and the spring of 2004.