The “Dream“ taught by Jeremy and Laura in Balboa Swing

The “Dream“ This Balboa move was created by Balboa masters Christian Thompson and Steve Garrett. The novelty of this move was that it was one of the first original LA-Swing/Bal-Swing moves that came about in the revival of Balboa in the late 90’s. It received its name from a ’dream’ that Christian had one night about doing a new move and then was further built upon by Steve Garrett. At the time, most of the “new“ generation of balboa dancers were doing moves that they had learned from watching movie clips or from the original old timers. The uniqueness that this move presented was that it gave new dimensions to the dance because it involved doing Lollies ’behind the back’ rather than just facing your partner. And therefore helped spearhead modern creativity in Balboa and Bal-Swing that was “outside the box“.