Some Thoughts About Blues and Blues Dancing

I’m putting me and my friend’s thoughts into a coherent manner from our discussion about blues. Side note - thoughts about blues dancing is still in its infant stage. Will edit accordingly:

For some people to say that they understand blues is pretentious and a fallacy. You cannot understand it, but rather, you feel it. And as my friend says, “you can’t learn blues any more than you can learn something as bizarre and primal as death metal.”
And even though one may know the history of blues, understanding blues itself is impossible. It would be like if one were to understand the abstract.

Blues isn’t a lesson.

It is sustained catharsis.

It is very much about giving the impression of the inarticulate and anesthetizing the discomfort.

Since blues dancing is a free form dance, teaching one how to dance blues would not be right. All I can do is show and suggest some basic mechanics of movement.

However, more significantly, to blues dance is to release a small portion your soul, through the interpretation of your past, present and future, giving equal voice to, and alongside the connection of another being.