![]() Here you will find videos that you can surprise your lindy friends with. Lindy Nerds is for real lindy nerds who love all things related to Lindy Hop. We also have a Solo Jazz and Charleston course, for those interested in improving their overall dancing or simply just don’t have a partner to train with. Jazz Routines is for all of you crazy about social dance but still shy when the crowd goes wild with the Big Apple ” if you still don’t know the steps and you have to take a break and watch it from the sidelines, it’s time for you to join the family and learn the Shim Sham, the Big Apple, Tranky Doo, the California Routine and all the other jazz routines. Ready for something different? We have a lot of other dance styles: ![]() If you are lindy-addicted you can also join the Lindy All-Stars program and we will share with you all the best routines and choreographies ever danced. We will help you learn new moves according to your level to make you shine like a lindy star on the social dance floor If you have a partner and you want to practice regularly after classes (or if you can’t attend classes because too busy or cause there are no classes where you live) wouldn’t be nice to have a place to go where moves have been pre-selected already and all you have to do it’s just dance, and not worry about finding the right video? Online Free Lindy Hop coursesĮasy does it: pick your level and we will guide you, for free, on a journey through the Lindy Hop world. Wouldn’t be nice to find immediately the right clip to practice? Wouldn’t be perfect to have one cool move to learn every time you want? A move that is specifically designed for you, at your level, that challenge you not too much but enough to learn something new and to shine. And while it’s fun to look at any clip about lindy hop, sometimes all you want is to have one specific clip, one specific move you can study, practice and learn, to be able to use it on the social floor, impress your partner and your friends and why not, share the new move with your community. Do you have the time to scan all of them? We realized that a lot of time is wasted to search for the right clip to watch, the right move to practice. Listen to Snatch & Grab It, by Julia Lee.Youtube is full of clips, thousands of lindy hop clips.Watch LaTasha and Felix Berghäll dance at the 2019 International Lindy Hop Championships.Watch Frankie Manning talk in 2006 about his life and career.Watch the spectacular Lindy Hop sequence in the 1941 film Hellzapoppin.Learn more about the Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program.They administer the Frankie Manning Ambassador Scholarship. The Frankie Manning Foundation seeks to carry on the work and spirit of Frankie Manning.Guardian Baltimore is a community-based organization founded by Breai Mason-Campbell that aims to pass on African American history and culture through dance.Learn more about the Black Lindy Hoppers Fund and Collective Voices For Change, organizations that were founded in 2020 to support and promote Black dancers while educating the international jazz dance community on the African American history of Lindy Hop and other Black social dances."It wasn't presented as a Black cultural art form."Ībove, LaTasha Barnes dances the Lindy Hop with fellow ASU professor Christi Jay Wells. "When I first re-encountered Lindy Hop, it was presented as this thing that white people do at weddings," Barnes says. As she developed her dance practice, she felt a growing need to understand the jazz roots of the street dances for which she was becoming well-known. To Barnes and her great-grandmother, it was just called "fast dancing."īy the time she was 31 years old, Barnes had become a world champion in House, a dance style that surfaced out of underground music clubs in Chicago and New York. Lindy Hop is a jazz dance that originated in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s and has since gained a following across the world, with large communities in Sweden and South Korea. ![]() She now realizes that afternoon with her great-grandmother was the first time she danced Lindy Hop. There was always music and dancing in her childhood. Barnes holds a family photo of her dancing with her father, Thomas Barnes.
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