tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64150217937787083952024-03-19T04:58:20.162-07:00Katherine's Dance WordKatherine Krok Eastvold's groundbreaking West Coast Swing blog changed the community overnight. Her world famous Articles, Announcements and Weekly Notes are posted here to make them more available to the public. Katherine Eastvoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14736206355724739156noreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415021793778708395.post-74770633242795187562017-08-23T14:15:00.003-07:002017-08-23T14:15:45.308-07:00Freestyle Footwork 6 Video Goes Pop with SIA <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The story behind Freestyle Footwork #6</div>
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As you know from my last post, I have to wait until my health says "yes" to a taping of these Freestyle Footwork videos.<br>
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It was a long 14 days after my last video, Layla, that I was able to film again. It was so bad, I thought it had been a month. So when my body whispered "maybe?" I was chomping at the bit.<br>
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So I devised a plan: find a song that would yank my body past the pain and into my excitement and desire.<br>
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Solution? <i>Cheap Thrills</i> by the amazing artist Sia (who sounds like Rihanna, don't you think? What a voice! Where has Sia <i>been</i> all this time? Australia should've coughed her up sooner, dang it!)<br>
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Now, Sia's favorite song of mine has been, and probably always will be, <br>
</div><a href="http://wcskat.blogspot.com/2017/08/freestyle-footwork-6-sia.html#more">Continue on, loves »</a>Katherine Eastvoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14736206355724739156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415021793778708395.post-75046590345067536172017-08-16T11:57:00.001-07:002017-08-16T11:57:28.957-07:00Where Did I Go? Plus Another Full Song Drops: LAYLA<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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It's already here! Another full song <a href="https://youtu.be/k8Dq3N8Ly0Q" target="_blank">footwork video</a> has dropped, and this time, it's to one of my favorite WCS songs of all time: Eric Clapton's acoustic version of Layla.<br>
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For you folks who have been around a while, you'll remember that when this song dropped on MTV's Unplugged, it went viral, and we danced to it like crazy. I never stopped loving it, and still used it my arsenal up until my illness in 2011.<br>
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That's when I had to quit doing <a href="https://youtu.be/wek583CBr8c" target="_blank">Walk Like an Egyptian</a> and created <a href="https://youtu.be/oRiTDVQ9JLo" target="_blank">Secret</a> instead. But I was fighting fate. And so I wrote instead.<br>
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Some of you have asked why I've been gone for so long, and the short answer is the one, if you've been reading my Notes from the beginning, is... exactly what I've said: my health. But here's what I didn't say: <br>
<a href="http://wcskat.blogspot.com/2017/08/where-did-i-go-LAYLA.html#more">Continue on, loves »</a>Katherine Eastvoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14736206355724739156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415021793778708395.post-65137029410205532852017-08-14T11:57:00.001-07:002017-08-14T12:03:15.742-07:00WCS Freestyle Footwork 4 - First FULL Song Release in 5 Years!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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(Video after the jump!)<br>
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When I created the Freestyle Footwork concept more than a year ago, I had no idea how poor my health was at the time - or how much worse it was about it get.<br>
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Shortly after taping those three short videos, I learned just how bad my knee really was - a full root tear of the right meniscus. Snapped right off in the middle of a Salsa dance.<br>
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So I stopped dancing and started rehabbing. In fact, my time spent rehabbing, up until three months ago, lead me to believe I was done dancing... FOR GOOD. So I said goodbye to that part of my life, and was grateful for the time I had been given. It was hard and it took a long time, but I did it.<br>
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Then-- suddenly, new doctors, new treatments and most of all - new medicines. I rarely get to dance now... but... I. GET. TO. DANCE!!!<br>
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So, in honor of that, I've pledged to film as much of it as I can for you, so that you can learn from a real Champion, with real technique, doing real WCS, just like <br>
<a href="http://wcskat.blogspot.com/2017/08/wcs-freestyle-footwork-4.html#more">Continue on, loves »</a>Katherine Eastvoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14736206355724739156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415021793778708395.post-57021392498985966742017-08-14T11:11:00.001-07:002017-08-14T11:32:03.880-07:00#104: Welcome to WCS!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Welcome to West Coast Swing!</td></tr>
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<i>From the end...</i><br>
<i>Spring new beginnings. </i><br>
<i>-Pliny the Elder</i><br>
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From <a href="http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs112/1101385994674/archive/1120396524054.html" target="_blank"><i><b>Weekly Note #104: Welcome to WCS!</b></i> (Click to view original Note.)</a><br>
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Last summer I mentioned a new series of videos I was working on. I'd finished taping them but they never quite made it online. The timing just didn't work.</div>
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But that's all in the past! I'm happy to announce that Part One of this four part series is up online on my <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001XentCWbFQE9WHMQFDn7wD1pJD5AhXu5yHIeKJVXJjSnE7gKmXdopObdS_BekRn_8HRTVvtx-I8OqBxhPwGp1BgAyYZL6dZt1xAnxZ3fjz4DajpK-_7EjkL43jYB3ZLZNgtEvvWMUz5OfK6UhA9mL0sMu-9SqDBnXltTEn0bV-utvEIySkm44Kw==&c=&ch=">GetSwingIN</a><i> </i>YouTube Channel. If you are already subscribed, then you've probably seen the announcement already!<br>
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But if you're not subscribed, let me fill you in...<br>
</div><a href="http://wcskat.blogspot.com/2017/08/welcome-to-wcs-104.html#more">Continue on, loves »</a>Katherine Eastvoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14736206355724739156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415021793778708395.post-9531005314299342532015-12-14T09:30:00.000-08:002017-08-10T17:48:36.024-07:00Jordan and Tatiana's Last Routine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -Thomas Jefferson</span></div>
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<i style="text-align: justify;">From <a href="http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs112/1101385994674/archive/1125875209822.html">Weekly Note #111; JORDAN AND TATIANA'S LAST ROUTINE</a>. </i><br>
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Before you read the article I wrote today, I want to clear away some cobwebs first so that you can see it clearly.<br>
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Look. Talking about Jordan and Tatiana is a very difficult thing to do. <br>
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It's like talking about gun control. People lose their minds and talk nonsense no matter what side of the matter they fall on.<br>
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But here I am, trying to voice my feelings and an opinion about - basically - Tom Cruise to a crowd that either defected from or most decidedly belongs to Scientology.<br>
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But I caught things in the routine you most likely missed. I did grow up with them. They were my "childhood friends" so to speak. And though what they've done to the dance of swing may crush me...<br>
</div><a href="http://wcskat.blogspot.com/2015/12/jordan-and-tatiana-last-routine.html#more">Continue on, loves »</a>Katherine Eastvoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14736206355724739156noreply@blogger.comLos Angeles, CA, USA34.0522342 -118.243684933.2099567 -119.5345784 34.8945117 -116.95279140000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415021793778708395.post-75969019078359038912015-11-02T09:39:00.005-08:002017-08-11T10:32:30.311-07:00Parris Goebel: Brilliant Choreographer Sets World on Fire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Over the weekend, Billboard 200 announced that <a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6745062/adele-hello-biggest-youtube-debut-this-year" target="_blank">history was written</a> last week. Adele's new <i><a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6745062/adele-hello-biggest-youtube-debut-this-year" target="_blank">Hello </a></i>video broke YouTube viewing records, nearly doubling the number of views Taylor Swift snatched when she broke YouTube viewing records earlier this year with her ridiculously amazing <i><a href="https://youtu.be/QcIy9NiNbmo" target="_blank">Bad Blood</a></i> video.<br>
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And as much as I love Adele, the video I was replaying all week, both online and in my head, was not her <i>Hello </i>video, but the other video Billboard wrote about in their announcement: Justin Beiber's<i><a href="https://youtu.be/fRh_vgS2dFE" target="_blank"> Sorry </a></i>video.</div>
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That's right. I said Justin Bieber. I'm kind of mad about that. I can't stand the guy. Ever since he wrote those <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-22146859" target="_blank">awful things in the Anne Frank Museum guestbook</a>, I've crossed him off as worse than a <a href="http://wcskat.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-i-could-do-without-nissy.html" target="_blank">Nissy</a>. Something much worse. But he's not in the video. Nope.</div>
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So how did it break records anyway?</div>
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</div></div><a href="http://wcskat.blogspot.com/2015/11/parris-goebel-brilliant-choreographer.html#more">Continue on, loves »</a>Katherine Eastvoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14736206355724739156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415021793778708395.post-38870474424284727142015-10-26T09:37:00.002-07:002017-08-11T10:31:26.833-07:00A Tear Like No Other: Dancer's Knee Surgery Journey P4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've been shot!</div>
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And though it finally happened, though they finally stuck a massive needle into my right knee for an injection, it was not their idea this time: it was mine. And after the last journal entry, you might think you know exactly what an injection meant for me... but you'd be wrong.</div>
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Everything has changed. Again.</div>
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It turns out that all seven medical professionals who viewed my knee MRI, from the radiologist who took the images to the top rated orthopedic surgeon I wrote about last week... it turns out that they all read my MRI incorrectly. </div>
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Big time.<br>
</div></div><a href="http://wcskat.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-tear-like-no-other-dancers-knee.html#more">Continue on, loves »</a>Katherine Eastvoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14736206355724739156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415021793778708395.post-34564525678251116432015-10-19T00:35:00.000-07:002017-08-11T10:31:26.822-07:00Shock and Repair: This Dancer's Knee Surgery Journey 3 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am still in shock. This journey to knee surgery has not been a roller coaster. It has been a cyclone. </div>
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I'm barely holding my bearings right now, standing right between two huge and important appointments, and am snatching both my breath and the moment to write a brazen update so you don't get lost without me.</div>
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Here's what's happened since Part 2:</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">I had an MRI taken on the right knee, which is damaged the most of the two.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">I met with my primary doctor who had ordered the MRI, who then, upon reviewing the results, referred me to an orthopedic surgeon.</li>
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And then my world fell apart.<br>
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If you were like the rest of the nation - scratch that - world, you were rockin' out to Lil' Mama's summer breakout hit "Sausage." Not only was it incredibly tight, catchy and well done, but the music video she released it with blew the last few years of MTV video awards out of the water.</div>
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She was, in short, hot this summer. And I was so, so glad to have her back.</div>
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Unlike most artists that top the charts these days, she doesn't rely on explicit lyrics to send a message. Not only that, but her message is always a positive one. It builds community rather than breaks it down. Bullying has become so rampant we become hostile when someone doesn't do it in their music, and Lil' Mama took some of that heat this summer.<br>
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Lately I've begun recording a new series of videos for you to check out on my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=getswingin" target="_blank">YouTube Channel</a> (GetSwingIN). Now that I am able to dance again, albeit in a very limited capacity, I've been looking for ways to share it with you once more.</div>
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The new series, called <i>Freestyle Footwork</i>, is very much what the title implies. I pick a song I feel like dancing to, hit record on the camera and then I try to forget about it. I love the motto "dance like no one's watching." And that's the motto I keep in my head while I boogie on down.</div>
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I never dance to a song twice. I never choreograph beforehand. I just let my feet carry me where they will. Just like I used to.<br>
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Tomorrow I head into the MRI for my right knee. I'm <i>so</i> ready.<br>
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I've had a lot of time to reflect since hearing the news that yes, it's time to operate on my knees. More importantly, I've had a lot of time to take notice of that one single knee that's being imaged tomorrow. </div>
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That's new for me. My attention, for almost five years now, has been on some mysterious disease that's attacking every system in my body. As a result, I'm used to looking at my body as a whole, attaching everything wrong with the disease.<br>
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Boogie by the Bay is right around the corner, so it's time to check out the last half of my <a href="https://youtu.be/n5As7qD203A">BBB Audio Expose Podcast</a>! </div>
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Confession time. Though I spill a lot of info in this podcast series, its not reflective of my other work. This is a much more personal podcast, because I personally worked with this team and it didn't end well. At all. </div>
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If I recorded it today, it would sound very different. I know about the cult now. And in that light, all of the drama I experienced goes right out the window. All of these crazy stories you will hear will suddenly make sense. They don't sound so crazy anymore. They sound like textbook cult behavior.<br>
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As my doctor was examining both of my knees, I thought back to when I first entered the world of WCS. I'll never forget the ladies at the US Open and at a few Tom Mattox events in Southern California who showed me their knees proudly: "See? I only have these three little round scars. That's it!" </div>
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They were, of course, showing off the new kind of knee surgery available: Orthoscopic surgery. Instead of massive scars down the middle of the leg, which ruined the reason we wore skirts back then, knees were being taken care of with just three little knicks that could easily be covered up with a bit of concealer. Oh, how excited and proud they all were!<br>
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"Passive-agressive people are also known as 'the underminers.' They will smile to your face, but then stab you in the back. They will tell you they stood up for you, but they really helped sink you. They will give you a compliment, then follow it up with a negative notation. (<i>"Nice skirt! On sale?"</i>) You try to help them get better, change, or understand what they've done, but do not bother. Passive-aggresives 'would rather be right than successful.'"</div>
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I took down these notes and more at a medical seminar recently. I found it interesting that even the medical profession recognizes that this pattern of behavior is so prevalent in society that the general public needs to be trained, not just psychiatrists or sociologists. What about you? Who is passive-aggressive in your life? I find that women are much more passive-aggressive then men. We can be our worst enemies, whether on the dance floor or in the work place. Think of a woman you know in dancing who has been nice to your face, but cuts you off on the dance floor? Critiques your clothing choices, partner choices - any choices at all - right after complimenting you?<br>
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From <a href="http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs112/1101385994674/archive/1121471714275.html">Weekly Note #109-B: What is a Cult?</a><br>
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They are pits of quicksand that operate waaaay more like black holes; they don't just suck you in and suffocate you, filling your lungs, ears, mouth and tears with tiny granules of glass - they pull you inside out too, scattering every molecule of you across space and time... and your family too.</div>
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Those who are powerless - or oblivious - make the best prey, so this article is specifically designed to empower you - empower you with the skills to see, smell and feel a cult coming before it envelopes you or one of your loved ones. Here we go:<br>
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When it comes to the five stages of grief and loss, we usually attribute them to people who have lost a loved one or a job, etc. But I think we can all relate to these stages in terms of losing WCS as well.</div>
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In fact, I think it's vital that we understand just how many of us are going through - or have gone through - these five stages.<br>
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Go behind the scenes and see how the best of the best champions choreograph. Includes never-before-seen footage, secret tricks no one teaches and much, much more! It's a rare look behind high-level WCS routines, and for the first time in history - we're breaking it down - just for <i>you</i>.</div>
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<i>Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character. -Anita Shreve</i><br>
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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. </div>
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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! <i>WORDS TO IT!!!</i></div>
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And then <i><a href="http://wcskat.blogspot.com/2011/05/time-has-come.html">The Time Has Come</a></i> appeared. It gave it a name. It gave us a voice. And most importantly, it gave us all... a choice.<br>
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<i>Drug addicts are no longer the people you love. -Dr. Brad Lander, The Columbus Dispatch</i><br>
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This is the second and final piece to my latest and greatest work: <i>The Time Came</i>. It's the much needed and lately promised follow-up to the article <a href="http://wcskat.blogspot.com/2011/05/time-has-come.html"><i><b>The Time Has Come</b></i></a>, 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. </div>
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It was a call to arms. It struck deep and it struck hard. Its boom echoed across the world. And the WCS Revolution began.</div>
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I've been waiting to write a certain "super-big" article for six months now. The time has finally come to share it with you. Look for it this coming Monday. I hope it opens your eyes and quelches some burning hearts. People will be talking about this one, I know, but it will break some serious bonds we are all struggling against.<br>
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What article could be so big? Even today? After all I've said and after all that has taken place? What in the world will it answer? What have I, Katherine, not already covered in 100 <i>Weekly Notes</i>?<br>
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<i>The following is a sidebar article from Weekly WCS Note #101: Preparing for the Big One.</i><br>
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You might have heard that a few big names are changing their tunes. Yes, that's right. Big names in the church and the ten are suddenly teaching... <i>gasp!</i> Swing!</div>
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So what changed? Some of these names participated - heck, even LED - some of the most brutal online harassment our sport has ever seen... <span style="text-align: left;">And now they're teaching WCS again? What gives?</span></div>
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<i>'Cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad. -Donna Summer</i><br>
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Today I'm releasing the most requested video in the history of my writing: my fourth routine with my partner, Josh Clark!</div>
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We only performed it twice, once at Grand Nationals and once at the CA Swing Dance Hall of Fame Gala, where it was received with such honor and praise that we stayed up until well into the next morning celebrating and enjoying one another. It was such a wonderful way to wrap up a phenomenal partnership.</div>
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<i>Dear Mr. Cosby is Katherine's fourth book and is available on Amazon.com in print and e-book format. <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0988560151/ref=cm_sw_su_dp">Click here</a> </b>to grab your own copy today!</i><br>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">I'm so happy to announce that my fourth book has arrived! It was a beautiful journey, writing this book, and I hope you treasure it as much as I do. It's one that I look forward to reading with my children and their children as we watch <i>The Cosby Show</i> together one day.</span><br>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Of course, <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001GtF3oXsUTX_mmmchDNYpGNR8OqEl1jM26-cgoogxGjV1s8Q-Cu9DtXvCVTRURElTz-v2k21YLK3lph-QrK-DxTZ5xRGgXs4pLynh1a-vsHo="><i>Dear Mr. Cosby</i></a><b> </b></span><span style="text-align: justify;">might seem a little out of left field to you, but it doesn't to me. I have spent the last year watching </span><i style="text-align: justify;">The Cosby Show</i><span style="text-align: justify;"> from the very start again... and found it's even more relevant today than it was then.</span><br>
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Nick and I learned so much, grew so much and laughed so, <i>SO</i> much harder than we have in a long, long time, that I found myself, for the first time ever, writing Bill Cosby letters after each episode.<br>
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I have some exciting news to share with you today, so I logged on to my newsletter site and looked up where I left off.</div>
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Ahhh.... I left off with quite the bang, didn't I? <i><a href="http://wcskat.blogspot.com/2014/05/83-mj-or-coke.html">#83: MJ or Coke?</a></i> then <i><a href="http://wcskat.blogspot.com/2014/05/84-playing-monopoly.html">#84: Playing Monopoly</a></i>, then <i><a href="http://wcskat.blogspot.com/2014/05/85-13-cult-culture-of-wcs.html">#85: The Cult, the Council and the End</a></i> and finally the topper... <i><a href="http://wcskat.blogspot.com/2014/04/where-things-stand-now.html">#88: Where Things Stand Now</a></i>.<br>
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So I re-read <i>Where Things Stand Now</i>. Wow. What a piece. It made happy, then made me squirm a bit uncomfortably. I think I messed up. And I'd like to apologize.<br>
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Because here's the thing: you, my audience worldwide, is split between two groups. You all fall into either category. For the purposes of this letter, I will call them Group A and Group B.<br>
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The dance of West Coast Swing (WCS) is extremely unique in the world of ballroom dancing. If you've ever taken a class for any kind of partner dance, like East Coast Swing, Waltz or Cha Cha, you'll remember that you were taught one basic step at the very beginning.</div>
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That "basic," as we teachers like to call it, or "basic step pattern" to be technical, became the foundation of all the other steps you learned. Let's say, for example, that you took a Salsa class. Once the class mastered the beginning basic you were then taught little "extras" to throw into that basic pattern - like an outside turn or an open break.</div>
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