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  2. Western swing - Wikipedia

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    Western swing is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. [1] [2] It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, [3] [4] which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the ...

  3. Country–western dance - Wikipedia

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    Western couple dancing is a form of social dance.Many different dances are done to country-western music. These dances include: Two Step, Waltz, Cowboy or Traveling Cha Cha, [2] Polka Ten Step [3] (also known as Ten Step Polka [4]), Schottische, and other Western promenade dances, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, and Nightclub Two Step.

  4. West Coast Swing - Wikipedia

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    West Coast Swing. West Coast Swing is a partner dance with roots in Lindy Hop, characterized by an elastic look that results from its extension-compression technique of partner connection and is danced primarily in a slotted area on the dance floor. The dance allows for both partners to improvise steps while dancing together, putting West Coast ...

  5. BYU Cougarettes - Wikipedia

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    Cougarettes. /  40.250°N 111.650°W  / 40.250; -111.650. The BYU Cougarettes are a dance team for Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. They perform at athletic events on the BYU campus and compete in national events in various genres including jazz and hip-hop. As of 2024, they have won 26 National Championships.

  6. Swing (dance) - Wikipedia

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    Origin. 1920's, Harlem, New York City, U.S. [1] Evita and Michael at 2011 Catalina Swing Dance Festival. Swing dance is a group of social dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s, with the origins of each dance predating the popular "swing era". Hundreds of styles of swing dancing were developed; those that ...

  7. Lindy Hop - Wikipedia

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    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. It was very popular during the swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s.

  8. Sylvia Sykes - Wikipedia

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    She is an inductee into the National Swing Dance Hall of Fame [4] and the California Swing Dance Hall of Fame. [5] She is a U.S. Open champion, [6] was the NASDE top point winner, [7] two time California Balboa Champion, took third place in the National Carolina Shag Dance Championships, and won many Strictly Swing [8] and Jack and Jill dance contests through the U.S. in Lindy Hop, [9] balboa ...

  9. East Coast Swing - Wikipedia

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    East Coast Swing (ECS) is a form of social partner dance. It belongs to the group of swing dances. It is danced under fast swing music, including: big band, rock and roll, rockabilly, and boogie-woogie. Yerrington and Outland equated East Coast Swing to the New Yorker in 1961. Originally known as "Eastern Swing" by Arthur Murray Studios, the ...