Anything impromptu can be nerve-wracking. This is the reason why impromptu dance contests are really an exciting thing to watch. They make everything look so easy but doing it yourself can be difficult to imagine.
It is very challenging to be dancing impromptu.
What’s even more complicated is when you dance with a partner. Essentially, the key to winning this kind of dance contest is to have chemistry or connection with your partner on the dance floor.
Ben and Tessa prove their connection to be the strongest point when they danced for Improv West Coast Swing. Even if the pair is dancing impromptu, they do it well together and look very much like a well-rehearsed choreo.
Tessa Cunningham
Tessa Cunningham is a famous Swing dancer. She is a Champion West Coast Swing dancer. What’s also very remarkable about her is she ranks number in Canada and ranks second in the world. She’s totally amazing. She often dances with her regular dance partner Myles Munroe, and they tour together. Aside from performing and competing in dance events, they also teach.
With so many trophies and years of experience that she has, Tessa can showcase all her skills with confidence on the center stage. She proves it in this improvised dance routine.
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Ben Morris
Ben Morris is known to be a Champion Lindy Hopper. He has also won the World Swing Dance Champion title a couple of times.
Morris travels the world to teach and join competitions. After his UCLA graduation, he has been teaching dance at various colleges in Southern California.
Talking about Swing dance, it can be hard to find someone better to do it on the dance floor. And he makes his random partner, Tessa Cunningham, perform well too with his moves in their improvised dance.
The pair wows the audience in their spectacular improv dance.
Ben and Tessa showcase their talents in a premier Swing Dance competition called the Annual Countdown Swing Boston. This is hosted by two great dancers, Bill Cameron and Yuna Davtyan. This event has been attended by some of the best dancers from different parts of the world.
They describe the dance weekend this way.
“We hope to create a relaxing, fun event, one in which you make new friends, create memories with old ones, and dance.”
The West Coast Swing is one partnership dance that started from Lindy Hop in Harlem in the year 1928.
According to Wikipedia,
“It is characterized by an elastic look that results from its extension-compression technique of partner connection and is danced primarily in a slotted area on the dance floor.”
This means that the dance partners will have to swing away and then meet together in that confined space on the dance floor.
The Swing dance is becoming popular with the new generation as they also find this kind of dance, fun and exciting.
The Mix & Match competition is one of the most awaited events in the Countdown Swing Boston. The dancers will be partnered randomly, and they will be judged according to their skills in improvising the dance.
Ben and Tessa show instant chemistry as soon as they meet on the dance floor.
This kind of dance is quite exceptional because the two are actually dancing for the first time. This is impromptu, which means they have not practiced their performance together. They have not choreographed the dance before the competition.
It is only at this moment that the two meet on the dance floor, but they look so fluid in their movements. Ben and Tessa have improvised the dance quite well, and they have given the song’s lyric a fantastic interpretation making the viewers watch them with excitement.
You can tell how strong their chemistry is despite dancing together for the first time.
The YouTube viewers say,
“You mean this is improvisation??? This is awesome!”
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“There is nothing sexier than a good dancer.”
You be the judge for Ben and Tessa’s impromptu Swing dance in this video with more than 3 million views. Not only will you enjoy this performance, but you will surely adore this two on the dance floor.
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