What Type of Dance?
I do an intense form of swing dancing called the lindy hop. Lindy hop started in 1927 in Harlem and became increasingly popular as it developed in the 30’s and 40’s alongside big band swing music. Although little-known in the mainstream, lindy hop enjoys a worldwide following, largely thanks to Frankie Manning. Click here for video of me (Liz Miller) doing the lindy hop with my my friend Ben. Click here for the quintessential lindy hop clip, from 1941.
October 12th, 2009 at 10:36 am
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October 12th, 2009 at 10:58 am
[...] genre of dance I love best involves leading and following. It is a partner dance called the lindy hop, which can be roughly described as an intense form of swing dancing. Despite the terms, leading and [...]
October 12th, 2009 at 11:07 am
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March 12th, 2010 at 4:14 am
[...] than Andrew Sutton will be here, en route from the Canary Islands to Germany, where he will teach lindy hop next. Taj and I will take him around Madrid this week. No rest for the [...]
July 29th, 2010 at 6:22 am
Hello, Liz, How is it going?
This is César, one of your students of Lindy Hop. I am back in Spain after a bike journey through France and East Germany.
I was writing this message to know wheter tomorrow there is class of Lindy Hop. And I could join it, although I have been out for two weekends.
Thank you very much and see you soon
PS. Class was at 20:00, wasn´t it?