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Swing History 101: The Birth of Lindy Hop (Early 1900s – 1929)
This is a series for beginner dancers. This post was updated with new information in 2018 and 2019 and 2022. Music Comes First In the world of street dances, the music always comes first. People hear a new music form start to arise, and it’s only a matter of time before they begin to move…
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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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