On December 23, 2024, the NY Times published an article about West Coast Swing—it’s well done! You can use this Gift Article link to read it free and without a subscription.
Read the whole article, and look for our favourite quotation:
All partner dancers are expert communicators, but at the highest levels of West Coast Swing, they’re practically telepathic. Anderson and Rutland compared a typical social partner dance experience to a segment on a talk show, with the leader as the host and the follower as the guest. When two West Coast Swing champions dance together, they said, it’s more like “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”: Partners sync up so completely that followers sometimes contribute as many ideas as leaders.