The Time Came - Part 1

It's Time to Break the Last Bonds:
Why Our Heroes Didn't Fight

Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character. -Anita Shreve

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Everyone was talking about it, from hotel rooms, to the back rooms, to the hotel lobby floors. Whispers here, arguments there, pleading elsewhere and disgust and despair was everywhere. 

"There's a different dance."
"It's not swing."
"That's not swing music."
"That's nothing like anything I've ever learned out there."

Everywhere, everywhere, from room to room... the whispers were higher and growing and bubbling over into a quiet, silent, roar. But we couldn't put our finger on it. Couldn't find the culprit, the sneak, the trickster. We couldn't put words to it, words to it! WORDS TO IT!!!

And then The Time Has Come appeared. It gave it a name. It gave us a voice. And most importantly, it gave us all... a choice.

The Time Came - Part 2

What Happened???
The Final Answer

Drug addicts are no longer the people you love. -Dr. Brad Lander, The Columbus Dispatch
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Dear Readers,

This is the second and final piece to my latest and greatest work: The Time Came. It's the much needed and lately promised follow-up to the article The Time Has Come, which first announced and defined the new dance of Abstract Improvisation a few years ago. More importantly, though, it warned that the price of complicity - that doing nothing would be the death of the dance called West Coast Swing. 

It was a call to arms. It struck deep and it struck hard. Its boom echoed across the world. And the WCS Revolution began.