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 ...

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 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.

Frankie "Musclehead" Manning, 94, a Harlem dancer and Tony Award-winning choreographer widely celebrated as one of the pioneers of the Lindy Hop, a breathlessly acrobatic swing dance style of the ...

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 ...

VICTORIA. THANK YOU. IF YOU HAVE SPRING FEVER, LIKE WE OBVIOUSLY DO AND YOU’RE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO USE UP SOME OF THAT EXTRA ENERGY, WHY NOT TRY TAKING A DANCE CLASS? WELL, THE DANCE HALL IN KITTERY ...

Frankie “Musclehead" Manning, a Harlem dancer and Tony Award-winning choreographer widely celebrated as one of the pioneers of the Lindy Hop, a breathlessly acrobatic swing dance style of the 1930s ...

She was a young girl who was born to dance. Known as the “Queen of Swing,” she was a trailblazer, choreographer, and comedian who helped define the Lindy Hop era in the last century. Discovered at ...