The jazz band is swinging hard as two Black dancers Charleston in the middle of a jam. The crowd roars as one kicks wildly in every direction and then drops into a jazz split. This isn’t 1922—it’s May ...
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.
As two dancers clasp hands and spin across the dance floor, their movements perfectly correlate with a black-and-white video of the same dance being performed nearly 100 years before. Last Saturday, ...
We loved seeing Remy Kouakou Kouame and Joshua Mclean perform during ILHC 2022. We can't wait for this year's energy and inspiration! Community building and intergenerational relationships are part of ...
May I have this dance? Aurelia Santos invites us to join the festivities. A-one and a-two and a-you know what to do. Any lindy hopper worth their swing out recognizes those as the words of the great ...
John Land has attended the New Orleans Swing Dance Festival & Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown every year since the event came to New Orleans a decade ago. This year, he will be hosting dancers from ...
HERRANG, Sweden — The rhythmic boom boom of Count Basie’s 1930s big band echoed around the Folkets Hus community center here. Men in suspenders and trousers and women in beaded silk dresses fanned ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Embrace vintage vibes at the Villa Terrace with its Lindy Hop classes. Patriots' Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft have to wait on ...
A new Google Doodle unveiled on Thursday celebrates, what would have been the 102nd birthday of Frankie Manning, the American dancer and choreographer who pioneered the Lindy Hop — a frenetic, almost ...