Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by To watch LaTasha Barnes dance is to watch historical distance collapse. By Brian Seibert If you want to understand the connections between jazz dance ...

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Frankie "Musclehead" Manning, 94, a Harlem dancer and Tony Award-winning choreographer widely celebrated as one of the pioneers of the Lindy Hop, a breathlessly acrobatic swing dance style of the ...

It’s hard for Sonny Allen not to be noticed in the ballroom of the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel. It’s not because he’s worked with Duke Ellington and on the extravagant ballroom dance ...

The two dancers in today’s Google Doodle are certainly having fun. Spinning and jumping around, the 1920s Lindy Hop dance fused jazz dancing, tap, breakaway and Charleston together for the first time.

HARLEM — Before the Harlem Shake there was the Lindy Hop. From when it was invented in the 1920's until the late 1970’s, hundreds used to pack neighborhood ballrooms and even Madison Square Garden for ...

A vibrant 90-year-old authentic jazz dance that originated in the Savoy Ballroom in New York is making a comeback on dance floors around the world. The reason for lindy hop's recent renaissance is the ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --For a group of twenty-somethings outside of Boston, the Lindy Hop's twists and triple-steps are a way to reach back into the past. Millenials Mariel Adams and Dang Mai are regulars ...

There's swing dancing, and then there's Lindy Hop. Don't know what Lindy Hop is? There may be no better way to find out than this weekend at the eighth annual Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown, a festival ...

It was Sunday afternoon on Frenchmen Street, and 30 people had gathered at d.b.a. for a Lindy Hop class. Chance Bushman -- a lithe young man wearing a straw hat and sneakers, his shirttail hanging out ...