With regards to the traditional Lindy Hop movement which was going through a revival starting about six years ago; is it showing signs of declining or increasing?

I'm guessing that it depends on locality. I was reading a post on Yehoodi about six months ago expressing a concern that Lindy was loosing out to Salsa in New York.

What has happened here is that many of the Lindy Hoppers were students at the University of Arizona who have moved on after graduation and there are very few of them left and one of them expressed to me that he felt in would be dead here in a year's time.

While visiting Seattle in July I attended a dance at one of the big venues there and noticed a smaller crowd from what I saw last year and was told by someone that things had slowed down over the past year.

So how is it other areas of the country?

I used to see kids on the street in zoot suits and polka dotted dresses, going to the Lindy clubs on weekend nights. Haven't seen that in a while, so I think the crest of the wave has passed in San Francisco. That's not to say that there's not still dances to go to: just that the super fashion-conscious scenesterism has died down.

In those areas where LH is in decline what may also be at work is the fact that LH is a vintage dance that was replaced by it's modified forms ECS and WCS. This as a result of changes in the music and thus the latter two became and remain the more contemporary forms and instruction in these two is more widely available.

That's just a guess on my part and not neccessarily true of every area.