Lindy Hop. Lindy Hop, The Original Swing Dance. Motion Pictures with Lindy Hop. Movies with Lindy Hop: Killer Diller. Frankie Manning and the Lindy Hop. Movies: After Seben. Movies with Lindy Hop: Malcolm X. Movies with Lindy Hop: Hot Chocolates. Movies with Lindy Hop: The Big Apple aka Jitterin' Jitterbugs. Hellzapoppin' - Movies with Lindy Hop. This movie, based on a hit Broadway play, showcases Whitey's Lindy Hoppers dancing the most famous and most spectacular Lindy Hop scene ever preserved on film. The dancing was choreographed by Frankie Manning. The scene starts when Slim Galliard and Slam Stewart, in workmen's garb, discover some musical instruments while supposedly delivering a package backstage. They play a few tentative notes, and a spontaneous, swinging jam starts cooking . More backstage "workers" join the jam, including Rex Stuart on trumpet and C.C.
Johnson on the ''Bongo drums''. The music builds in excitement until, as if out of nowhere, four Lindy Hopping couples, dressed in overalls and uniforms, swing out into the cameras at a frenetic tempo. Each couple executes amazing acrobatic shines. The choreography and the dancing are as near to perfect Lindy Hop as you can see anywhere! About Lindy Hop | An article by Sharon Davis for AusDance Magazine, including a brief introduction to what Lindy Hop is all about and what makes it stand out from other danceforms. Lindy Hop is the original swing dance that evolved from the Charleston and other jazz dances in the 1920s and flourished in the Swing Era of the 1930s and 40s. It spread from Harlem, New York where it was born, across the United States and to the rest of the world. Named after Charles Lindbergh and his famous ‘hop’ across the Atlantic, in Australia it was commonly known as the Jitterbug.
Lindy Hop is most famous for its acrobatic “airsteps”, but this is only one aspect of the dance. It can be danced socially to fast or slow tempos and it is perfect for all ages and levels of fitness. So what makes Lindy Hop so special? Here are some of the defining characteristics of the Lindy: The Music By definition a swing dance is danced to swinging jazz, a musical style popular in the 1930s and 40s. Connection Improvisation Individual Style. Lindy Hop Dance.
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