Richard Brody, at The Front Row, nicely wraps up a discussion we’ve been having that started with the New Orleans Saints’ “Who Dat” chant and made its way through Paul Laurence Dunbar, minstrel shows, ...

When the band starts cookin’ and dancers hit the floor at Century Ballroom this week, somebody will be missed. Frankie Manning, the joyous master and ambassador of Lindy Hop swing dancing, passed away ...

May I have this dance? Aurelia Santos invites us to join the festivities. A-one and a-two and a-you know what to do. Any lindy hopper worth their swing out recognizes those as the words of the great ...

First it was the introverted Finns coming out of their shells and dancing close to the Tango. Then, the shy Japanese getting into latin music and swing. Now it’s the Swedes getting into the Lindy Hop.

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 ...

A swing dance style born in Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in the 1920s and '30s is finding new footing with young Canadian dancers. The Lindy hop "is like playtime," said Birkley Wisniewski, director of ...

At 95, Norma Miller is the last living member of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, the pioneering group that helped popularize swing dancing. These days,... The Queen Of Swing Takes Old Age In Stride The 1920s ...

She jumped, jived and wailed in the 1930s and '40s as a member of the Lindy Hoppers, the famous dancers who helped popularize swing dancing. And later, she shared a Las Vegas stage with Sammy Davis Jr ...

Someone recently mentioned to me that when she was younger there were so many different music clubs around that on any given night you could go out and listen to great old bands and dance the night ...

Our Here, Now column looks at trends taking hold in cities around the world and gives you the low-down on how to experience them the next time you're in town. Dancers tap their plimsoll shoes and ...