Northeast Ohio Community Dance Schedule Contradances plus English country, ceili, and swing dances in Cleveland, Lakewood, Bath, Oberlin, and other northeast Ohio cities. http://www.nesys.com/dance/
Seattle Easter Swing The Premier West Coast swing dance Event in the Northwest! Seattle Swing Club. Join the VIP Club Email address Member of the USA swing dance Network. http://www.seattlewcswing.com/
UK HEPKATS SWING DANCE CLUB swing dance on Nov. 19th with the KY Jazz Repertory Orch. Save the date mark your calendar Click here for info on previous UK swing dance Club dances! http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/HKSDC/
Extractions: Have you always wanted to whirl around the dance floor? Do you love the music of the great big bands of Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Artie, Shaw, Glen Miller; the juke joint jumpin' jive of Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris, Louis Prima; the smooth swingin' sounds of Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald; the rockin' tunes of Chuck Berry,
The Kansas City Swing Dance Club :: The KC swing dance Club, Inc. (KCSDC) is intended to unite Kansas City area dancers Another classic but lesser known swing dance from the 1930 s/1940 s, http://www.kansascityswingdance.org/html/
Extractions: The K. C. Swing Dance Club, Inc. (KCSDC) is intended to unite Kansas City area dancers who are interested in learning and dancing the West Coast style of Swing dance in a social setting. The KCSDC offers encouragement and support to competitive dancers and is operated on a not for profit (but for fun!) basis. Current Board of Directors President: Christa Danhauer Vice President: Jim Seeman Secretary: Cheryl Minardi Treasurer: Mike Brenton Dance Coordinator: Toi Shaw Activities Director: Kathy Sappington Publications: Karen Fahrmeier Member at Large: Lana Cook Member at Large: Vincent Matthews Member at Large: Michael Lamy Member at Large: Bob Miiller
Utah Lindy Hop Network Utah's resource for all things that swing. Provides information about weekly swing dance events, special events, and links to more information about the Utah swing scene. http://utahlindy.tripod.com
Extractions: Search: Lycos Tripod Aeon Flux Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site ... Next Utah Lindy Hop Network Home FAQ's Special Events Weekly Events ... Forums The Utah Lindy Hop Network is an organization dedicated to the promotion of Lindy Hop and other Swing Dances in Utah. Looking for more? Visit the new Utah Swing Network page! Well, ULX 2004 is now behind us! Thanks to all those who came! If anyone still wants a shirt, email us at utah_lindy@yahoo.com and we'll hook you up! Hey! What if I want to learn how to dance? There are plenty of options for places to learn to swing dance. Check here for weekly lessons, and here for special workshops, classes, etc. Also, if you are interested in private lessons, please email me to get in contact with anyone you would like to take from. We are trying to organize things such that we can bring some people in to Utah to do workshops. If there is a couple you would love to learn from, let us know! Coming Soon: More links, Pictures, More info... in short, more of everything good!
Swing Dancing - Wikibooks Because swing is a social dance, one should seek to dance with as many different partners as Ross Mernuk s swing dance Steps Comprehensive listing, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Swing_Dancing
Extractions: edit Because swing is a social dance, one should seek to dance with as many different partners as possible, rather than focusing on a single partner. Even if a lead and follow came to the dance with each other, it is disfavoured for them to spend the entire night dancing only with each other. In the United States, it is typical to dance one song in a row with a partner, two songs in a row if the experience was particularly enjoyable. In Europe it is often considered rude to only dance once in a row with a particular partner. edit Although traditionally a lead asks a follow for a dance, followers are encouraged to do the same. The person may either accept or reject the dance request. If the person rejects the dance, whether they might not feel like dancing or are reserving a dance for someone else, or they might be tired or just shy, thank the person anyway and ask someone else to dance. It is considered rude to decline an offer for a dance and then dance the song with another person unless you mention that you had the dance reserved and promise a later dance to the asker. To begin the dance, the lead should escort the follow onto the dance floor, with an arm behind the follow's back (though this is done less and less, and not at all in many scenes).
San Francisco Bay Area Lindy List BalSwing Int/Adv Bal-Swing at the Lake Merritt Dance ?Center? 1230 PM - 100 PM, FREE beginning swing dance lesson at Lindy in the Park, http://lindylist.com/
Windyhop - Swing Home Chicago Provides a calendar of Chicagoland swing dance events, lessons, workshops, and a bulletin board. http://www.windyhop.org/
Extractions: Make this your homepage News 9/23 Swing for New Orleans-A Benefit for the Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund Please join us this Friday, September 23 at the Dank-Haus for a Swing Dance/Benefit featuring musical performers - Lesley Byers, Thomas Gunther, Yoko Noge, Brienn Perry Lisa Roti 100% of all proceeds will go to the American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund (More) Wed, Sep 21, 2005 Hurricane Katrina DanceAThon Benefit, Thursday Oct. 6th, 2005 5:30-10:30pm@Willowbrook Ballroom In cooperation with The American Red Cross, a benefit swing dance marathon to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina. All donations generated by participants will go directly to The Red Cross earmarked specifically for these victims. 100% of the funds we raise will be donated. (More) Tue, Sep 20, 2005 Dancers needed for live broadcast of WCLX7 on WGN Morning News!!! Yep, you read that right! The WCLX7 Committee is proud to announce that WGN Morning News is going to film their âLive Around Townâ segment on WCLX7 and The Chicago Swing Music Festival to promote the Exchange. (More) Tue, Sep 13, 2005
SDLI/Contacts Welcome to the Web Site of swing dance Long Island. promotion of swing dancing on Long Island, New York. Enter SDLI Web Site http://www.sdli.org/
Swing Dance History Have you ever swing danced? Learn the swing dance history in America. http://caca.essortment.com/swingdancehist_rkmh.htm
Extractions: Swing dance history Have you ever swing danced? Learn the swing dance history in America. Swing dancing is a favorite American past time, and it recently experienced a resurgence in popularity throughout America. Its origins, however, are widely unknown. Where did it come from? What makes it so popular? Read this article to learn of the history of swing dancing. The origins of swing are relatively unclear. This is not for a lack of possible origins, but rather for an overwhelming amount. Swing can be a natural descendent of Lindy hop, the Fox Trot, the Charleston, and even the Waltz and the Tango! This is because with the rise of each of these dances, another chip fell into place for the rise of Swing itself. The Waltz and the Tango moved into America in the early 1900's. Both were, in their time, considered scandalous dances because they allowed partners to touch each other during the dance. However, once these crazes took off in Paris, and were showcased by a few younger talents, the public immediately took on. Close dancing became a social norm. In the 1920's and 30's, a dance named the Lindy hop began to emerge in the Savoy nightclub in Harlem. This dance was one of the few dances in the world to evolve almost completely in one contained space. The Lindy hop developed and grew through a series on competition, where partners would make up new steps to defeat each other. Within a short amount of time, the Lindy hop was an incredibly energetic, improvisational dance incorporating Big Band sound, jazz harmonies and jumping steps.
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Swing Dance Scotland swing dance Scotland information about classes, dances, steps, choreography, swing music and more. http://golgi.ana.ed.ac.uk/Swing/
Extractions: Swing dance, first seen in the Big Band era of the 1930s and 1940s, has come back to Scotland! A whole new generation is now discovering the fun of partner dance to wonderful music in the friendly atmosphere of the country's various swing clubs and classes. This page is intended to provide a quick 'directory' of what is on offer; if you know of anything I should have included but have not, please let me know. Performers Swing Diary Links - FREE INSTRUCTIONAL NOTES Classes and clubs for swing styles; Lindy Hop/ Jitterbug (click here for history, step guides etc) (Lindy Hop is the original swing jive, dating from the 1920s; smooth and sophisticated when slow, it can become wild and energetic when the tempo picks up. This dance is ancestral to all other forms of jive, and is still considered by many to be 'the' dance of the swing era). The Swingdoctors (teaching, performance etc)
Rocky Mountain Swing Dance Club Extensive information on West Coast Swing dancing, swing dance events, swing dance music information and resources for Colorado. http://www.coloradoswingdance.org/
Pasadena Ballroom Dance Association Each Saturday night we hold swing dances using some of the best Swing There is also a COMPLIMENTARY East Coast swing dance Lesson from 730 800 pm! http://www.pasadenaballroomdance.com/
Extractions: Each Saturday night we hold Swing Dances using some of the best Swing Bands in California. And on the fourth Friday of each month we hold "An Evening of Ballroom Dance" with a variety of DJ'd music. We also host 2 annual swing camps, "Swing Camp Catalina" in June, and "Harvest Moon Swing Out" in November. SATURDAY NIGHT SWING DANCES
TasSwing - The Tasmanian Swing Dance Website Promoting swing and related forms of dancing in Tasmania, Australia. Includes social events, classes, workshops. http://www.tasswing.com.au/
Extractions: Home About Northern Tas Tshirts ... THE TASMANIAN SWING DANCE WEBSITE Monday 26 September 2005 So you live in, or are visiting Tasmania, and you want to swing dance? Well, you're in the right place! This site contains all the information about lessons and social dancing you'll need. Email newsletter signup Recent swap meet items: Mod blue and white dress and the cutest jacket Added Sat 18 Jun 2005, 11:06:26 AM by Bec Jazz: A film by Ken Burns Added Sat 18 Jun 2005, 11:03:11 AM by Bec Wedding Reception and Function Centre $795,000 Added Tue 30 Nov 1999, 12:00:00 AM by Paul Added Tue 30 Nov 1999, 12:00:00 AM by Bec
Welcome To BAWDC Nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the swing dance form known as the Whip. http://www.bawdc.org/
