DCLX - SECRET ORIGINS

Well, maybe not secret, but few people are around that remember very much. The first DCLX-DC Lindy Exchange-was hatched in the back of a van coming back from ALHC 2001 somewhere on I-95. Mike Miloszewski was on a dance high and wanted an excuse to relive it again. And soon. Holding a national dance competition seemed out of the question at the time, but Lindy exchanges were just becoming popular. Mike decided that it was time for DC to have its own. I was a little skeptical. We had no resources, and the people who did don't exactly sit around and sing Kumbaya when they get together. That didn't bother Mike who moved pretty quickly to get a bunch of people on board this train. Mike was a good motivator, he had the Eye of the Tiger going for him, which is probably why we elected him chairman of the committee. It helped that he was an outsider to our scene. He had learned to dance up in Boston, and had not been living in DC long enough for many people to know who he was. He wasn't discouraged by a lot of baggage that the DC scene carried ... Read More