Big-band music filled the air and dancers doing the Lindy Hop took to the dance floor for the 1940s Victory Dance at the Westminster Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 467 on the evening of Oct. 9. The ...
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 ...
"Lindy Hop" is a dance form that originates from the late 1920s. It features elements of jazz, and is more frequently referred to as swing dancing. Jennifer Kain has been teaching this style of dance ...
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 ...
The dancing began Friday night and went on until late afternoon Monday in “Can’t Top the Lindy Hop!”, a marathon celebration by the New York Swing Dance Society at the Roosevelt Hotel. There were ...