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Yossef Mendelssohn moved to Nashville for work in August of aught-six and
was lucky enough to be right by the premier swing dance studio of the day,
Vintage Rhythm. He finally got around to starting lessons in January, and
since he knew hardly anyone and had nearly nothing to do, he kept on taking
all the lessons he could for several months. At some point, Aba and Reuel
got sick of seeing Yossef all the time and closed the studio down.

After about half a year of taking constant lessons and not doing much
outside of class, Yossef realized he should start dancing socially. Then
came travel to other dance scenes, workshop weekends, exchanges, and
camps. After a stressful first stab at competition as part of the short-
lived Whitey's Cindy Loppers, he started entering competitions regularly,
winning his first-ever Jack and Jill (Beginner/Intermediate, AVS '07) and
placing in some other beginners' competitions (third place Novice J&J,
third place Pro-Am, Lindy Focus '07) before being shoved into the cruel
world of intermediate and advanced.

Since his humble beginnings, Yossef has aspired to add more titles to
his name than just "dancer". "Competitor" came fairly quickly, then
"DJ", and recently "teacher". (Recently as in since October '08.) He
hopes to add "organizer" to that list soon.

Yossef not only enjoys the usual suspects of swing dancing (Lindy Hop,
Charleston, and Balboa), but also the precursors, the pre-swing (or "silly")
dances like Peabody and Collegiate Shag. He's also generally excited about
most non-Jitterbug-Stroll choreographed routines and line dances.

And talking about himself in the third person.