Hi there, it’s Liza.

What you’ve stumbled onto here is an archive of emails sent out from dance events on the West Coast Swing competition circuit.

In 2006 I started  sending emails from my phone to a small group of dancer friends at home in DC.

I discovered that my messages were being forwarded all over the place.

We’d go to a comp in Texas and people would ask to be added to my “list.” I’d say “It’s nothing interesting! Rough impressions scratched out with bad grammar and a stylus.” They’d say “I wanna hear. Add me.”

The list got too big for my phone so I moved to gmail.

It got too big for gmail (only allows 500 emails/day) so I moved to a newsletter service.

Never saved any of these updates. Never occurred to me that anyone would want to read old updates.  I’d write, send, and trash. I thought of them as long texts – who saves texts?

But now people are asking to read previous years’ updates. So I’m gathering them here as they are sent back to me. If you happen to have any (especially from 2006 to 2008) please send them along to lizamay@gmail.com. Thank you!

So that’s what this is! A personal history of our misadventures at comps attended by Genieboy and myself from 2006 to the present.

If you’re looking for Updates for a specific event you can find all the comps listed on the left side of this page.

Pictures of each event are in my Facebook photos.  Each comp has it’s own album, named for the event and year.

Have fun!