Manifesto

We believe that our individuality is continuously evolving, influenced by what we experience throughout our lives.

We are inevitably part of a culture and contributing to it. Each of us inherit a set of values, norms, traditions, and practices from our micro communities, but we are also influenced by the wider world.  

We each have our own ways of reaching for authenticity. For some of us it comes with questioning parts of our inheritance, letting go of what we don’t resonate with anymore and/or getting attached to something new. In a way, we feel it’s like uprooting from our original stand point. 

One of the new things for us was the Lindy Hop dance. It originated in the African American culture of the 1920s and a form of it reached Bucharest sometime around 2015.

Most of us discovered it randomly, and practicing it started to be a big part of our lives even if we knew little of its original culture and evolution. We just loved it without understanding much of its depths.

In time, we became more curious about the particularities of Lindy Hop and the culture around it, what it brings up in us and what we resonate most with from it. While practicing Lindy Hop, we feel like we continuously learn and unlearn about it and ourselves at the same time. 

We want to keep doing this and honor the dance, the music, the people and the experiences that come with it. 

While we do this, 

WE REBEL. We question norms, rules, definitions, absolute truths and we stay true to who we are in the present. 

WE RESPECT. We respect what we learn about the past and what we experience in the present. We welcome it all, while staying true to the values we resonate with.

WE REBUILD. We remain open to updating our beliefs, reshaping our perspectives and definitions as we move forward.