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 ...

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 ...

This Black History Month, we recognize one of the most extravagant dances ever to exist, the Lindy Hop. The style born during the Harlem Renaissance has evolved to live on in its home neighborhood.

The jazz band is swinging hard as two Black dancers Charleston in the middle of a jam. The crowd roars as one kicks wildly in every direction and then drops into a jazz split. This isn’t 1922—it’s May ...

John Land has attended the New Orleans Swing Dance Festival & Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown every year since the event came to New Orleans a decade ago. This year, he will be hosting dancers from ...

They’ll make your dancin’ dreams come true! Brooklynites can get down with some of the world’s best swingers next weekend, when the American Lindy Hop Championships jitterbug their way onto the ...

Norma Miller, a dancer, comedian and big-band singer whose acrobatic flips, slides, leaps and twists helped popularize the Lindy Hop dance craze of the 1930s and ’40s, earning her the title “Queen of ...

She was known as the Queen of Swing, a dancer who helped make famous the lindy hop, a fast-paced, acrobatic dance popular during the Big Band era of the 1930s and 1940s. On Sunday, the queen, Norma ...

As I follow the distant, brassy trill of a saxophone emanating from John F. Kennedy Drive, I take a deep breath, attempting to quell a feeling of mounting nervousness. It’s just before noon on a foggy ...