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 ...

Lindy Hop is a Black dance born in Harlem in the 1920s. In the past decades it has been adopted by several dance communities around the world. In this episode of Rough Translation we travel to a dance ...

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 ...

Lindy Hop is a dance that was born in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s — created and performed by African Americans in segregated clubs and dance halls. But today, one of the world's most vibrant Lindy ...

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She was known as the Queen of Swing, a dancer who helped make famous the lindy hop, a fast-paced, acrobatic dance popular during the Big Band era of the 1930s and 1940s. On Sunday, the queen, Norma ...

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 ...

HOUSTON -- From Lindy Hop to East Coast Swing, a new generation is ushering in a fresh wave of swing dancing. Millennials are using Lindy Hop's twists and triple-steps to reach back into the past and ...

There's swing dancing, and then there's Lindy Hop. Don't know what Lindy Hop is? There may be no better way to find out than this weekend at the eighth annual Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown, a festival ...