Line Dance Connection:	What's your name? Do you have any dance nicknames that you're known by?
Louis Jenkins:	My name is Louis Jenkins aka “Sweet Lou”.
Line Dance Connection:	Where are you from and what city do you call home?
Louis Jenkins:	I am from “NOLA” – New Orleans, LA. Pontiac, MI is now my home but I will claim NOLA forever.
Line Dance Connection:	What do you do in your professional life? Any hobbies outside of dance?
Louis Jenkins:	I am a legal drug dealer – I’m in pharmaceutical sales as a Diabetes Care Specialist (DCS). I like to travel, read, watch the history channel, hang out with my frat brothers, watch post play-off games in football, watch UFC fights and watch good boxing matches.
Line Dance Connection:	So what do they call this dance craze in your home town? Line Dancing, Hustling, Sliding, Other?
Louis Jenkins:	Hustling in Detroit and Line Dancing in NOLA.
Line Dance Connection:	Are you affiliated with any group or groups?
Louis Jenkins:	Dance Force of Pontiac was the first group I belonged to…..that’s my Pontiac Family. I now dance with the Motown Hustlers and everyone knows that it’s not a group….we just dance. NO DUES, NO RULES, NO PRESIDENT. Just the music and the wood! Lastly…LNR (Louis, Nichol & Re Re) – a bond that will never die. All three are still a part of me that I deeply love.
Line Dance Connection:	How long have you been dancing?
Louis Jenkins:	I have been dancing since I was in grammar school and high school. I started hustling in 1997 at SAP (Society of African American Police Club) in Pontiac.
Line Dance Connection:	How did you get involved in dancing?
Louis Jenkins:	I initially started ballrooming at the old Yesterday’s (a club) on 9 Mile in Southfield, MI. It was not about the exercise but something to relieve stress from my job at General Motors (GM).
Line Dance Connection:	After you attended your very first class, how did you feel?
Louis Jenkins:	I felt ok….I said to myself “I will come back next week because I did not get it this week.: LOL
Line Dance Connection:	How did you get into choreography?
Louis Jenkins:	I used to pop-lock and break dance all the time in high school. When it came to hustling I was pretty good with putting music to steps and not to mention as an Omega (Que Dog) we step and set out hops all the time.
Line Dance Connection:	How many dances have you created and what was the very first dance you created?
Louis Jenkins:	I have created and collaborated on over 15 plus dances and the first two I remember creating were “B&L Thing” and “3 Times Fun”, but many more would follow.
Line Dance Connection:	Of all your dances which one would you say is your favorite?
Louis Jenkins:	My favorites are “3 Times Fun” and “Ladies Night” and I love all of my collaborations.
Line Dance Connection:	In your own words, what makes dancing special?
Louis Jenkins:	When you can just dance for fun with no stress or mess. Enjoy the company of others that you care about.
Line Dance Connection:	If you could change one thing about dancing, what would it be?
Louis Jenkins:	I wish people would bring back the classics (1999-2008) and record them so we won’t forget them. Remember……what is old to some is NEW to others.
Line Dance Connection:	Tell me one thing about yourself that the dance community would find surprising.
Louis Jenkins:	I am from the south but I don’t eat FISH anymore and I was reared Baptist but I attended Catholic school from Kindergarten through College (Xavier University is the ONLY Catholic HBCU in America).