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Egle Regelskis: Hello,
everybody! My name is Egle.

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Martynas Stonys: And I'm Martynas.

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ER: And we are Lindy Hop dance teachers,

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but we call ourselves
simply "Lindy hoppers."

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We have our dance studio
and work as full-time dancers.

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MS: And we're going to tell you
how couple dancing

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can improve your personality.

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(Laughter)

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ER: Yes, sure.
MS: Yes, sure.

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ER: I'm going to give you four words,

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and you're going to make your own sentence

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at the end of our speech
with these four words, all right?

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Here we go: "men,"

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"women,"

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"happy,"

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"dance."

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Most of you probably agree with me
that women, more than men, like to dance

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or want to learn how to dance.

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A woman usually asks
her husband, boyfriend,

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roommate, a friend

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to sign up for the dance classes
or just to move on the dance floor

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at some party, doesn't she?

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Not for all, but for some men,

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first dance touch sometimes happens
before the wedding,

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when the bride takes her groom
to learn a wedding waltz.

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And in this case, this first touch
of dancing in a couple

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sometimes is the last one.

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And it's so sad!

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Waiting for one of the happiest days
of your life to come is not very easy.

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MS: But we see lots of people
dancing around us.

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And they want more and more of it.

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ER: That's what business
we are involved in.

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MS: Helping people to dance
and dance more and more.

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But when we started working
as full-time dance instructors,

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I had a big question for myself,
"Why should people dance?

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And why do people dance?
Why should I dance?"

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I asked this question of my friend,

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he was a 50-year-old American,

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and he said he would lose his arm
if he could dance as I could.

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And do you imagine that - losing
an arm for the ability to dance?

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ER: That's horrible!

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MS: But he couldn't say why.

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And we started asking our students,

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"Why do you come to class?
Why do you dance? Why do you like it?"

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And they usually start with -

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ER: They always say,
"I forget all the problems I have."

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MS: Exactly! They come,
they dance, they relax,

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because they are in this moment.

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Actually, that's how Lindy Hop
came to this world.

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It was the time of the Great
Depression in the States,

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and people saved their last money

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so that they could go on Friday night
and Saturday night to just dance

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and forget all the problems
and troubles they had,

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just to be happy.

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ER: Do you think time has changed now?

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MS: Do you think people
are so different now?

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ER: Now.

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(Laughter)

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Well, I believe most of you like dancing

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because you all have your favorite music
you like to move to it, right?

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But if I ask you, "Do you prefer dancing
in a couple more than dancing solo?"

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I'm sure most of you would think
that you don't know,

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or you didn't learn how to dance.

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That's why you would choose dancing solo.

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MS: Because it's so much easier.

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ER: Martynas and me,
we love dancing, a lot.

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And we are here today
so that you all would fall in love

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with dancing more than you are now.

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Especially dancing in a couple.

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MS: But why is dancing
and dancing in a couple so great?

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First of all, of course, it's music.

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Is there anyone who doesn't like music?

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(Audience) No!

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MS: Nice!

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So, you hear your favorite song
on radio or YouTube or from your Ipod,

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you tap your foot, you shake
your head, you want to clap.

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That's it! You are already dancing!

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That's how your dancing starts.

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ER: So, it's a body movement.

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We have our bodies,
and we want to use our bodies.

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Why not sports?

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Yeah, working out
in a gym is a lot of fun,

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that's what so many people do ... not!

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(Laughter)

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So, sports is more about winning

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and, for example, making love is not.

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Sometimes the process itself
gives you more pleasure than the result.

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So dancing is more
about being in the moment

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than working out for a goal.

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MS: But why not solo dancing
but couple dancing?

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It's like comparing masturbation
to people making love.

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(Laughter)

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I'll show you.

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(Laughter) (Applause)

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Dancing, dancing -

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ER: In dancing, guys, in dancing.

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MS: So, here it's me dancing,
like simple steps.

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I'm happy with myself,
and not maybe because it's me dancing.

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But if I can dance this with Egle -

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see, she's smiling naturally.

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I'm smiling and it's
a completely different story.

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It's fun sometimes to be alone,

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but dancing with each other
gives you so much more fun.

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And a couple dancing is a connection
between a man and a woman.

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ER: Here we go, we had to see
a man and a woman.

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Yeah, that's a connection.

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MS: A boy and a girl.

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(Laughter)

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Or two women.

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ER: You see? Two women can dance too.

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MS: Or two men.

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(Laughter)

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She loves it.

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ER: But why Lindy Hop?
Why do we dance Lindy Hop?

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MS: Because it's jazz music.
It's jazz, period.

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We can come together and dance
because we know rhythm.

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And we can improvise it.

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So no steps are important.

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It's just by the rhythm, by the moment,
and giving influence to your partner.

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ER: Or getting influence
from your partner.

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You know that usually there is one leader
and one follower in a couple.

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Usually there is in any couple dance.

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And Lindy Hop is the same:
one leader and one follower.

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MS: No, no, no, no.

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MS and ER: One leader and one follower.

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(Laughter)

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ER: And you actually would be surprised
how women who are used to lead

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and be first in their lives
or to be heads, necks in their families,

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enjoy following after a while
or letting the man be the master,

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at least while dancing.

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But Lindy Hop wouldn't be
such a great dance

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if I had to follow all the time
because I am a woman who likes to lead

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or likes to be first,

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and sometimes it's really hard
to shut me down.

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But here's the thing
why I love Lindy Hop best.

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Our dance is communication.

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My partner says
what to do and how to do,

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and I accept that.

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But we both hear the music,
whatever it is.

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Our dance is improvisation
and body communication,

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how we feel this music.

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So, I'm allowed to talk in my dancing.

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Not all the time of course.

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But I can say what I want to say
if I want to say.

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MS: So, accepting these rules
makes our dancing more fun.

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I'm showing her
the most I want to be done,

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and how I want these moves to be done.

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ER: So, because this dance
is about communication,

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we socialize a lot.

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And it looks like this: imagine
here is the social dancing party,

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and I come to a person
I would like to ask for a dance,

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a person I do not necessarily know

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and say, "Hi! Want to dance?"

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MS: Yeah, sure.

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(Laughter)

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ER: So we dance. We dance.

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After one song, I or Martynas,
or someone else -

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MS: Want more?
ER: Yes, sure.

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So we dance more.

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After a couple of songs, 
I can say, "Thank you,"

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and go to another person
I would like to dance with.

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And, again, we dance,
we change, we dance, we change.

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So, the more partners you change,

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the more chances you get better dances.

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MS: Oh come on! You should have limits.

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ER: I do have limits,

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but [not on] changing partners in dancing.

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(Laughter)

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Changing partners makes a better dancer

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because you have to adjust
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to another's body movements.

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And it makes you listen more than talk.

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And when I start understanding
different body languages,

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it gives me more
intelligence and confidence.

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And you know, we have such students -

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I won't lie, more men than women -
who don't hear the beat.

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(Laughter)

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They're always either slow
or either hurried, but never in the music.

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They don't need music to dance actually.

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And it's really hard to dance with them
if you hear the beat.

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MS: And you could think
that for them to learn how to dance

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is impossible, and you
wouldn't be right, actually.

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Sometimes it takes a week,
sometimes it takes a month,

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and sometimes it takes even a year,

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but if they keep coming to classes,
if they just keep trying and keep dancing,

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somehow they just feel their energy,
they just feel the beat, the rhythm,

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and they start finally dancing.

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ER: So the strangest thing is that they
still don't look very good in dancing,

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but it's not the point.

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The feeling is much more important.

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So the feeling of dancing
with them is so much better.

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That's why we say, "One can walk,

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MS and ER: one can dance."

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ER: Everyone can feel the music. Everyone.

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And for them, for these guys,

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it's really hard to manage
to sign up for the dance classes

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because they know they can't dance,

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but they want this so badly.

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And they're very shy,
modest, quiet people,

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and they think everybody around them
is so much better dancers,

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so much better sellers,

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so much better students,

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so much better dancers -

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people in general.

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But when they train the skill
of how to communicate in a couple,

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how to dance with another person,

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they shine, they become more confident,

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because they can ask
a completely unknown person to dance.

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At least just one.

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Or maybe two.

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Or maybe find a girlfriend,
or maybe change their lives somehow.

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MS: Look at us so many years ago.

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(Laughter)

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ER: It's just five years
because, before Lindy Hop,

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we were not in a couple.

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But Lindy Hop changed us.

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Before knowing this dance,
I couldn't stand in front of 20 people

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and read my report without blushing
and a shaky voice.

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And look at us now!

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Yeah, we're here.

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I think we have a better
hair style now, right?

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(Laughter)

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But I'm not saying
I'm not nervous at the moment.

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Standing here is the biggest
experience we've ever had

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because in our class we have
up to 60 to 70 people -

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and here it's a lot more. Yeah!

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Lindy Hop changed you somehow.

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MS: Yes, of course.

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When I started dancing Lindy Hop,

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or before that, I was shy
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in all kinds of life situations.

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You know, a big challenge for me

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was buying a beer or drink at the bar.

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You know this feeling
when the bartender doesn't see you at all?

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ER: Awwww!

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MS: Do you think that it impresses girls?

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ER: Mm-hmm!

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MS: I'm not saying I'm the first one
getting their drink now.

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Usually it's Egle.

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(Laughter)

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Ladies first. Or unless I buy a drink
for her, so then I'm the first one.

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ER: All right!

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MS: But if we get into a situation
where we can dance,

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and especially if I can dance with Egle,

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we just improvise
and dance to any kind of music,

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and then people look at us, they smile,

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we get small talks;
girls talk to me a lot.

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It's a big boost for my ego.

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(Laughter)

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ER: Yeah, so if you treat yourself
[with] this big of confidence,

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at the beginning,

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after you start knowing how to dance,
and communicate with other people,

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another person,

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you're going to treat yourself ...

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[with] this big of confidence.

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Plus, more intelligence and more listening

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what you can give to other people
but not just get.

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And then you evaluate yourself
as a better person,

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you deserve to get a better life,
and you become more happy.

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On the one hand, it's just a couple dance.

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But all these things,
rules, changing partners,

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asking what's wrong, asking what's right,

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saying, "Thank you," improve people.

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And instead of being a dancer -

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here we go!

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(Laughter)

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And always looking down and shy and so on,

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you become, or you can become,

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a person and a dancer
from the big picture.

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MS: And we had one student
who came to us and said,

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"Thank you, thank you so much."

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We asked, "Why? What happened?"

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He said he was at some party
with his university friends, new friends,

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and he picked up the most
beautiful girl at that party,

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just because he could dance
with her like no one else

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for two or three hours straight.

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(Laughter)

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Of course, the relationship
after that lasted for two weeks.

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ER: That's not the point actually.

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(Laughter)

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They were happy dancing together.

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All right, guys,
now we're going to show you

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why we call Lindy Hop "The dance."

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Yeah, that's ok.

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I believe most of you know samba,

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salsa, cha-cha, house, maybe funk.

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We know most of these dances,
but we don't know the steps.

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There's no need.

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If you know how
to communicate in a couple,

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you can dance most of these dances.

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Pretty much. I mean, at least
you're able to move to that kind of music

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because dancing, first of all,

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is the rhythm and connection
between partners.

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You don't need even
the steps sometimes, all right?

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MS: Do you want to see some dancing?

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ER: Yeah.
MS: Yeah.

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ER: All right. Where is the music?

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(Music)

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MS: So we get slow swingers.

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(Music stops)

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Aaaaah!

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ER: Again, please.

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(Slow swing music)

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Let's say this is our basic.

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MS: And with this dance,
we are more happy than you are

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because you watch and we dance.

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And let's -

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(Charleston music)

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It's Charleston.

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I know it's fast.

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And remember when we told you

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the rhythm is more important
than the dance and the dance steps.

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Let's stop it.

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ER: All right. I think we need
to repeat it again. Yes?

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Let the music -

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(Applause)

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Let's do it again.

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(Samba music)

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MS: Ok, now we got some
South American rhythms.

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And we can dance
and we can do the same thing.

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ER: Yeah, but add some more hips, 
and it looks like -

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(Swing music)

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MS: Music, music.

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(Funk music)

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Now we've got funk.

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(House music)

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Have you danced to house music?

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Have you ever seen a couple
dancing to house music?

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(Applause) (Cheers)

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ER: Uh!

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Audience: Ah!

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(Applause)

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That all was improvisation.

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MS: Yeah, improvisation. Sure -

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ER: And body connection.
And there is the music again.

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MS: But, again, coming back
to the question,

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"Why do people want to dance Lindy Hop?"

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and "Why does this community
attract people so much?"

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ER: Well, I think we found the answer.
This is not because of swing music.

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MS: It's because it's pure improvisation.

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ER: Yeah, very -

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MS: Big improvisation. 
And a huge variety of music.

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And, of course, it's completely pure fun.

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And no other meanings.

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ER: Do you remember those four words
I gave you at the beginning of our speech?

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You have to make your own sentence
with these four words.

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I'm going to give you
my sentence. It's very easy.

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Men and women are happy
when they dance together.

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MS: Now it's your turn to start dancing.

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ER: Thank you so much!
That was Martynas.

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MS: And Egle.

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(Applause)