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  2. Sven Otten - Wikipedia

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    After Otten published his first video on YouTube in December 2012, he soon attracted attention. With his second video, he achieved his greatest success to date with around 50 million. [2] In this video he dances to the song All night by Parov Stelar. His dancestyle is known as Neoswing. It consists of elements of swing and more modern dances.

  3. Swing (dance) - Wikipedia

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    Western Swing has long been the name for jazz-influenced western music of the 1940s and, by extension, two-step, line dancing or swing dance done to such music. Contemporary 21st century Country Swing or dancing or "Country Western Swing Dancing" (C/W Swing) has a distinct culture, with classes and instructional videos on YouTube and DVD ...

  4. Swing music - Wikipedia

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    Hot swing music is strongly associated with the jitterbug dancing that became a national craze accompanying the swing craze. Swing dancing originated in the late 1920s as the "Lindy Hop", and would later incorporate other styles including The Suzie Q, Truckin', Peckin' Jive, The Big Apple, and The Shag in various combinations of moves. A ...

  5. Balboa (dance) - Wikipedia

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    Balboa being danced competitively at Lindy Focus 2023. The Balboa, also known as "Bal", is a swing dance that emerged in Southern California during the early 1930's as a response to Swing Music.

  6. Swing revival - Wikipedia

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    The swing revival, also called retro swing and neo-swing, was a renewed interest in swing music and Lindy Hop dance, beginning around 1989 and reaching a peak in the 1990s. . The music was generally rooted in the big bands of the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s, but it was also greatly influenced by rockabilly, boogie-woogie, the jump blues of artists such as Louis Prima and Louis Jordan, and ...

  7. Collegiate shag - Wikipedia

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    The Collegiate Shag (or "Shag") is a partner dance done primarily to uptempo swing and pre-swing jazz music (185-250+ beats per minute).It belongs to the swing family of American vernacular dances that arose in the 1920s and 30s.

  8. Lindy Hop - Wikipedia

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    Willa Mae Ricker and Leon James, original Lindy Hop dancers in iconic Life magazine photograph, 1943 Norma Miller and Skip Cunningham 2009 Lindy Hop Dance, 2013. The Lindy Hop is an American dance which was born in the African-American communities of Harlem, New York City, in 1928 and has evolved since then.

  9. Jive (dance) - Wikipedia

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    Jiving in a British dance hall, 1945. To the players of swing music in the 1930s and 1940s, jive was an expression denoting glib or foolish talk. [2] American soldiers brought Lindy Hop/jitterbug to Europe around 1940, where this dance swiftly found a following among the young. In the United States, "swing" became the most common word for the ...