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 ...

NEW YORK — Frankie Manning, a master of swing-era dance who went from the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem to Broadway and Hollywood, and then after a long break enjoyed a globe-trotting second career as an ...

A vibrant 90-year-old authentic jazz dance that originated in the Savoy Ballroom in New York is making a comeback on dance floors around the world. The reason for lindy hop's recent renaissance is the ...

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, ...

Frankie “Musclehead” Manning, a Harlem dancer and Tony Award-winning choreographer widely celebrated as one of the pioneers of the Lindy Hop, a breathlessly acrobatic swing dance style of the 1930s ...

This is the incredible moment Ryanair passengers were treated to an impromptu swing dance performance by a group of Lindy Hoppers - and joined in. The dance troupe was flying home from Vilnius, ...

Today marks the 102nd birthday of one of the founders of modern dance. Frankie Manning is best known as the "ambassador of the Lindy Hop" - a fusion of several genres including jazz, tap, breakaway ...