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In San Francisco, you don’t have to go to a stuffy night club or a formal classroom to learn how to swing dance. If you want to learn the Lindy Hop, you can learn in the great outdoors.
KALW’s Carolina Hidalgo, who is originally from Chile, found the group called Lindy in the Park, dancing in full daylight on one of her walks in Golden Gate Park. She brings us this profile for the next installment of Meet Your Neighbors.
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KALW 91.7FM:
December 1, 2011
Transcript
CAROLINA HIDALGO: It’s late on a sunny morning and people have filled the park. John F. Kennedy Drive is closed to car traffic, as it is every Sunday, and people are biking, skating, jogging, and walking. As I walk west to the de Young Museum, the sounds of music mix with the sounds of people. Lively music – '40s style swing music – and as I get closer to the sound, I realize it’s coming from a gathering.
At the corner of Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive and JFK, where taxis and tour buses turn toward the de Young and Academy of Sciences, more than a hundred men and women stand together around the source. But they don’t stand still. They’re dancing … or, at least, they’re trying to.
Trish Richman is a regular.
TRISH RICHMAN: I first came to Lindy in the Park, probably almost six years ago.
She’s got dancing in her blood.
RICHMAN: My father was a swing dancer back in the '40s, and w...
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