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Random Lindy Hop and Balboa Geek Discovery: Bal, Swing and Lindy from the Waist Down (and Something Possibly Amazing)
I recently was looking around stock footage websites when I came across something peculiar: a series of clips of jitterbuggers, several minutes of it, mostly from the waist down. I appears to all be leftover swing-era film footage. At first I thought the clips were simply of random mediocre dance extras, as often happens in…
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An Index of Basic Classic Clips
As a professional dance instructor in the time of COVID-19, my income for at least five months of the year has been erased. If you read this article and find it useful or thought provoking, please consider a donation. You will be *literally* helping support an artist, and have my sincerest gratitude. This is an…
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The Ballad of the Oxford Baggies
Every now and then we’ll be pulling out Swungover posts from the 132 year history of Swungover, covering its humble origins as a small New Orleans daily newspaper aimed at Marching Drummers to its current place as an online swing dancing blog. This entry is from 2001. Ballad of the Oxford Baggies* (or: “Baby Got…
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The Case of the Dancing Stud (Part 4 of 4): The Big Competition
Today is the final part of our ILHC mystery “The Case of the Dancing Stud.” Read the first part here. and the second, here. And the third here Part IV: The Big Competition I was standing on the sidelines at the International Lindy Hop Championships, with only twenty minutes left until the big event. And…
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The Case of the Dancing Stud (Part 3 of 4): The Investigation Takes an Odd Turn
Today is the third part of our ILHC mystery “The Case of the Dancing Stud.” Read the first part here. and the second, here. Part III: The Investigation Takes an Odd Turn That night we arrived at the Jump Mansion, and Shackelford promptly disappeared, he said to go to the restroom, though he was gone…
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