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    Swing dance is a group of social dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s, with the origins of each dance predating...
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  • nominally weaker beat. Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement. The danceable swing style of big bands...
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    West Coast Swing is a partner dance with roots in Lindy Hop, characterized by an elastic look that results from its extension-compression technique of...
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  • Ballet Baroque dance Medieval dance Regency dance Renaissance dance Ultapulta dance American Rhythm Bolero willy East Coast Swing Mambo Rumba Bachata Cha Cha...
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  • East Coast Swing (ECS) is a form of social partner dance. It belongs to the group of swing dances. It is danced under fast swing music, including: big...
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  • The Wikibook Swing Dancing has a page on the topic of: Lindy Hop The swingout is the defining dance move of Lindy Hop. The swingout evolved from the breakaway...
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  • The swing revival, also called retro swing and neo-swing, was a renewed interest in swing music and Lindy Hop dance, beginning around 1989 and reaching...
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    that feature ballroom dancing also may include additional partner dances such as Lindy Hop, Night Club Two Step, Night Club Swing, Bachata, Country Two...
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  • Electro swing, or swing house, is an electronic dance music genre that combines the influence of vintage or modern swing and jazz mixed with house and...
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  • (Line dance) Bihu dance (Folk dance of Assam, India) Binasuan Biyelgee (Mongolian) Bizhu dance Black Bottom (see Lindy Hop) Blues (Club dance, Swing) Bolero...
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    famous dancers at the time. In swing dance or Lindy Hop communities today, both solo 20s Charleston and solo swinging Charleston are often danced in groups...
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  • Jazz-funk dance Jitterbug Swing (dance) Tap dance Vaudeville Mahoney, Billie (1998). "Jazz Dance". The International Encyclopedia of Dance. Oxford University...
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    Jitterbug (redirect from Jitterbug (dance))
    used to describe swing dancing. It is often synonymous with the lindy hop dance but might include elements of the jive, east coast swing, collegiate shag...
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  • America is the home of the hip hop dance, swing, tap dance and its derivative Rock and Roll, and modern square dance (associated with the United States...
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  • dance is west coast swing. Some other dances, e.g., hustle and salsa, may be danced in slotted style. Compare spot dance, travelling dance. A dance that...
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  • Look up Swing, swing, or swinging in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Swing or swinging may refer to: Swing (seat), a hanging seat that swings back and...
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  • in all its musical glory, my friend, you have Western swing." Western swing began in the dance halls of small towns throughout the lower Great Plains...
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  • Coaster Step (category West Coast Swing dance moves)
    A Coaster Step is a term used in swing dancing which originated in Lindy swing. During the last two beats of a rhythm pattern, the follower rotated 90°...
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    Lindy Hop (redirect from Lindy hop (dance))
    then. It was very popular during the swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Lindy is a fusion of many dances that preceded it or were popular during...
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    ballroom dancing, the jive is often grouped with the Latin-inspired ballroom dances, though its roots are based on swing dancing and not Latin dancing. To...
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  • Swing Rueda is a swing dance in the round (wheel) that features someone calling Lindy Hop moves and the dancers moving in unison. It was adapted from...
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  • The Balboa, also known as "Bal" is a swing dance that originated in Southern California during the 1920s and enjoyed huge popularity during the 1930s...
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    marked a shift toward dancing to recorded music, as radio stations, jukeboxes, and sock hops played records to dance to. Swing dance in the 1930s has grown...
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  • Boogie-woogie dance is a European variation of swing dance often done competitively that developed in the 1940s. Although its name derives from the boogie-woogie...
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  • May 29, 1917 – June 1, 1984) was an American dancer, instructor, choreographer, and innovator of swing dance. He is often credited with bringing the Lindy...
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  • New jack swing, new jack, or swingbeat is a fusion genre of the rhythms and production techniques of hip hop and dance-pop, and the urban contemporary...
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    companies. Tap dance, disco, jazz dance, swing dance, hip hop dance, the lindy hop with its relationship to rock and roll music and rock and roll dance have had...
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  • Swing! combines high energy dancing, singing and acrobatics. There is no dialogue in the show, and the story is told entirely through music and dance...
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    Cuban dances, such as mambo, pachanga, and rumba, as well as American dances such as swing and tap. Salsa is one of the most popular types Latin dances that...
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    the event was provided by the Scottish swing-dance band That Swing Sensation, with dance hosts the Fly Right Dance Company. The previous record was set...
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