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Click on your chosen dance style to view a brief history and access short videos.
Choose from 'High' (broadband) or 'Low' (Dial-up) video links depending on your connection. All clips are Windows Media. |
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Clips edited by Bryan Crotaz & Susannah
Traill. Camera: Tim Harcourt.
Thanks to STOIC www.stoictv.com and
to Renaissance Footnotes for the Period Clip. |
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Lindy Hop /
Swing
Lindy Hop is an Afro-American
swing dance that originated in America’s black ghettos in the
late 1920s. It evolved from the Charleston and is danced on swing
music. Whereas the Charleston involved dancing in "closed" position,
Lindy Hop has the partners breaking away, yet still coming together
and breaking away.
Lindy hop combined elements of jazz dance with earlier dances such
as the Big Apple, Texas Tommy, Cakewalk, and the Charleston. |
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