News and Review Welcome to my new website! Our instructional videos are still available. "Breakthough concepts for West Coast Swing" is based off the philosophy Melissa and I teach and dance by, using fun, intricate, and broken down patterns to illustrate our concepts."3-D Dancing" is a complamenting video inverting the way we express the material. In this video we begin by showing the pattern then use the technique we introduced in the first video to break it down. Just click here for the order forms. MelissaRutz.com is up online! Link to it right here! Pictures from Europe!!! Unfortunateliy some of my pics are much smaller because in the middle of my trip i dropped my camera and it reset itself to 1mgpixel mode. I did not catch this mistake until i returned home. Event Review Sea, Sun and Swing France!!!!   What an experience for Melissa and myself. In the South of France, Melissa and I got to teach for about 250+ dancers from all over Europe all gathering for the first All West Coast Swing Sea Sun and Swing Dance Camp. Sea, Sun and Swing has been running for about 4 years now but in the past has been run with mostly Lindy hop dancing. This is the first year where WCS has taken over the entire camp! Other dancers that joined us: Chris and Katrina, Paul and Catriona and Rachel from the UK, Olivier from Belgium and Henriette from Copenhagen, local instructors Olivier Roy and Amondine and of course previous Sea, Sun and Swing instructors Jordan and Tatiana, Parker and Jessica. The camp had roughly 6 days of workshops with as many as 4 workshops a day in 5 different dance levels. We were all surprised with the level of all the dancers especially with the lack of experience they had. Most of them not dancing for longer than 18 months! A couple of new crossover dancers from Lindy hop learning WCS after only a couple months were already dancing in levels 3,4 and 5. It was nice to see how appreciative and attentive everyone was. So eager to learn and hungry for information. They study the videos on Youtube and the video clips from all the competition event websites. I was really fascinated with their ability to apply the information given to them as well. If Melissa and I find ourselves returning to another Sea, Sun and Swing, I highly reccommend joining us for an enlightening and fun dance trip to the South of France!!!!

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