Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown semifinal and final rounds, plus solo jazz finals and endurance contest, with music from an "all-star" big band. $50. (Watch LIVE on NOLA.com!) ...

In the crash course, students learn how to do six-step and eight-step variations of Lindy Hop, and weave it into dances. It's a partner dance, and is characterized by being very improvised.

In the Lindy Hop, solo jazz and house scenes, as well as the wider circles of street and club dance, this Barnes effect is well-known. But now, at 40, Barnes might be on the cusp of different kind ...

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 ...

And Lindy Hop is still relevant today. It’s truly American – rooted in Black history – and deserves to be celebrated as it builds stronger community. Dance like everyone’s watching. And hope that they ...

The father of modern lindy hop is Frankie Manning, currently alive & kicking at 94 years old. He, among other original Savoy ballroom dancers were tracked down during the swing resurgence in the ...

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 ...

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. Suggested Reading New ...

Norma Miller, a dancer, comedian and big-band singer whose acrobatic flips, slides, leaps and twists helped popularize the Lindy Hop dance craze of the 1930s and ’40s, earning her the title ...

The Lindy Hop spread across the country in the 1930s and ’40s. “As it grew, it shaped itself to different locations,” Barnes said, spawning variants like the Carolina Shag and DC Hand Dance.