Week 2 is over! I have had a wonderful time.

The course was very interesting. We got a variety of styles and techniques, and
also focus. It was interesting seeing where teachers contradicted each other as
well as where they agreed. There is no single thing called "Slow Dance". Sugar and
Barbara taught us a whole new dance, in effect, which I intend to call "Savoy 
Ballroom" (they called it just "Ballroom"). The one thing they largely all agreed
on is that the rhythm is important; in this sense it was slow Lindy Hop rather
than pure Blues, but the distinction is subtle.

My favourite teachers are Peter and Naomi who spent a lot of time on quality of
motion, which I have never studied before. An unusual feature of Peter Strom is
that he often tells students that they are doing it wrong, and he doesn't move
on to the next thing until everybody is doing it right. On the contrary, he and
Naomi repeatedly abandoned their lesson plan to fix things they saw us doing
wrong. I think their plan is just a fallback in case they don't find anything
to say.

Skye and Frida are a close second. They did an excellent technique-through-
choreography thing in their four classes. There was one move in the middle
which required me to fix at least two separate things in my technique before I
could do it.

Stephen and Sara pulled in bits of Polka, Tango, Balboa and Waltz for their
class, which was cool. Ochos in Lindy Hop!

And Daniel and Åsa focused on dynamics; slow vs fast, big vs small, and so on.
They included some lovely dips and spins.