Acknowledgements
The West Coast Swing community is full of wonderful enthusiastic and helpful dancers. We get to say thank you to a bunch of people who have supported us in putting together SwitchOn Northwest and SwitchOn Seattle.
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Our first acknowledgements are to SwitchXperience Paris and SwitchXperience Berlin for the amazing set of ideas they have generated and shared.
Thank you Hélène Mi!
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Our next set of acknowledgements are to the instructors who have offered switch workshops at some of the WCS conventions we have been to. Thank you Samantha Buckwalter, Mahala Fedor, Phoenix Grey and Lia Brown.
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We also want to add acknowledgments to the many people who have shared their expertise and energy to help us with the thinking, planning, and detailed work that has gone into getting us this far. Please let us know if what we've said below is not right for you or, especially, if we have left you out! Thank You:
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Helen Mi - creating some thing wonderful and sharing so much
Rose Hawley-Perry - all things organizational and well placed hugs
Stephen White - lessons and wisdom only outstripped by dancing and wit
Samantha Jane Buckwalter - lessons, inspiration, skill and encouragement
Ron Uitdenbosch - ideas, enthusiasm, encouragement, and more fun than is reasonable on the dance floor! Don't trust me, go to europe and dance with him!
Scot McKay - technical stuff, including the use of his equipment, patience, and support
Wren Newman - lessons, planning, patience, and support. Did we mention patience!
Kalinda Pride - support, lessons, web site and tons of switch dancing
Tara Ann Carpenter - enthusiasm, encouragement, support and social media
Matthew William Farver - hand holding, enthusiasm and web design generosity
Sam Lingane - Energy, cheerleading, lessons, and support
Jacinda Waite - hand holding and smiles. Also, dancing and more smiles
Miles Van de Wetering - dancing and encouragement getting our web site off the ground
Aaron Farance - enthusiasm, support, and suggestions
Nicole Zwerlein - logo design, patience and enthusiasm
Sareena Enloe - Dancing, dancing, encouragement and excellent conversation
Mélodie Paletta - encouragement, lessons, and planning
Kyle Fitzgeralding - encouragement, lessons, and planning
Thomas Carter - lessons, smiles, and infinite patience on the dance floor
Katie Schneider - Lessons, patience, and inspiration
Rassamy Mone - dancing, support, ideas, and more support
Laura E. Hunter - ideas, inspiration, and support
Tessa Cunningham - enthusiasm, lessons, ideas, and encouragement
Lia Brown - great questions, ideas, and support
Eliza Wilder - enthusiasm, inspiration, logistics and support
Tren and Markus - we'll just go with love
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