Many bring a handkerchief or towel to dry their face between dances.Īsk them! Follows ask leads to dance, and leads ask follows to dance. Some dancers bring an extra shirt (or two) in case they sweat through the first one. Breath mints and a little perfume or cologne are also a good idea. It is a good idea to be wearing deodorant and to brush your teeth before coming. Try to avoid eating strong smelling foods like garlic for dinner, as the smell might be unpleasant later on. Remember, you are going to be in close proximity to another person, so be conscious of your partner's experience. It is similar to the Charleston, but involves more kicks and is sometimes danced to boogie-woogie music.īalboa classes teach the basic footwork and method for this fast, upright, 8-count dance that easily fits into Lindy Hop patterns.Here are a few tips to help you master social dance protocol! Louis Shag classes focus on this high-energy, fast-paced dance that originated in St. Content will vary with instructors, but this class is designed to be taken more than once.Ĭharleston classes teach solo and partnered steps (tandem charleston) of this energetic, eight-count dance.īlues focuses on connection, weight placement, counterbalance, and musicality, and is danced to blues musicĬollegiate Shag classes teach the footwork and stylings of this fast-paced, six-count dance that emphasizes close partner connection and clear pulse. This class will focus on applying techniques to a wider range of tempos and syncopations, as well as addressing different topics within the dance such as styling and musicality. Intermediate Lindy Hop refines techniques learned in Beginning Lindy Hop and study more closely the relationship between partners, connection, control, and mechanics of the dance.Īdvanced Lindy Hop delves into the nuances and subtleties of the music and the dance that thrives on it. Intermediate East Coast Swing focuses on technique and increases your dance vocabulary with new swing moves.īeginner Lindy Hop builds from the rhythms introduced in the Beginning Swing class, but introduces the basic figures and variations of eight-count swing. By the late 1990s, the swing craze was booming many nationwide had caught the jitterbug. He appeared in the 1941 film Hellzapoppin’, performing a swing routine (complete with aerials) that is now universally recognized in the swing world. The Lindy Hop's renaissance period began in 1984 when Frankie Manning, a pioneer of the dance in the 1930s and choreographer for the famous troupe Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, came out of retirement. Like swinging jazz, Lindy Hop is improvisational and playful, which is what makes social dancing fun and its competitions so delightful to watch. The dance was first created by African-American kids during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s. Lindbergh made the first ever transatlantic flight. Legend has it that one of the Harlem’s best in the day, Shorty George Snowden, coined the name when he saw a newspaper headline, “Lindy Hops the Atlantic" in 1927, the year that Charles A. Lindy Hop, the dance that started it all, stands today as America's true folk dance. Many musicians also carried the tradition of hard-swinging rhythm past the swing era, and bring us a whole new generation of swinging jazz. Musicians who are most known for their contributions to swing music include Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Billie Holliday, Slim Gaillard, Lionel Hampton, Fats Waller, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong.and we're just getting started. It is usually played by big band ensembles that use a rhythm section with drums, bass, sometimes a guitar, and almost always a piano, a brass section of trumpets and trombones, and a reed section of saxophones and clarinets. Swing was the predominant style of jazz music played from the late 1920s to mid-1940s. A simple way of explaining this is to say the word “bicycle:” it has three syllables, but the emphasis of the first syllable is roughly twice that of the last two.
Swing has to do with the rhythm of the music where accented notes are played at roughly twice the emphasis of the non-accented notes.
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