When Mike Thibault finished high school in 1995, his graduation present from his grandparents was a series of ballroom dance classes. Thibault was an aspiring saxophonist, and he knew a slew of ...
This Black History Month, we recognize one of the most extravagant dances ever to exist, the Lindy Hop. The style born during the Harlem Renaissance has evolved to live on in its home neighborhood.
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They’ll make your dancin’ dreams come true! Brooklynites can get down with some of the world’s best swingers next weekend, when the American Lindy Hop Championships jitterbug their way onto the ...
What is it? The lindy hop, also known as the jitterbug, is an Afro-Euro-American swing partner dance that originated in Harlem in the 1930s. What's needed? Non-restrictive clothes and comfy shoes, ...
On Wednesday nights, the old Underwood typewriter factory on Arbor Street in Hartford comes alive with the sounds of Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Lionel Hampton and Duke Ellington.
Denver-based Lindy Hop swing dancers Tiffiny Wine and Ceth Stifel perform an original radio dance titled "Now You Has Jazz" in the CPR Performance Studio. The duo choreographed an original Lindy Hop ...
During the height of the swing dance revival in the late 1990s, night club patrons often dressed head-to-toe in 1950s vintage apparel. Women wore starched taffeta dresses with Peter Pan collars, ...