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The Club Imperial was a nightclub at 6306-28 West Florissant Ave in St. Louis, Missouri. During the club's heyday in the 1950s through the 1960s, acts such as Ike & Tina Turner , Chuck Berry , and Bob Kuban and the In-Men performed at the Club Imperial.
Swango is a dance revue conceived and choreographed by Mariela Franganillo and Robert Royston, with a script by Rupert Holmes and a potpourri of tango and swing music. The original production played in the off-Broadway Swing 46 jazz club in 2002 [1] and moved to the Helen Hayes Theater in Nyack, New York, in 2003. It received mixed reviews.
St. Louis shag is a swing dance that evolved from the Lindy Hop, Collegiate Shag and Charleston. [1] [2] It is a fast, closed position dance that is usually done to stomp, jump, and boogie-woogie music. St. Louis Shag is a territory swing dance which originated in St. Louis, Missouri in the 1930s. [3]
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It started at the Club Imperial in St Louis. George Edick, who owned the club, let teenagers dance on the lower level and the swing dancers of the time taught them what was learned from their trips to the east coast. As people traveled around, they added parts of west coast, bop and Carolina shag to complement the dance and make it distinctive.
Club Riviera was a nightclub at 4460 Delmar Blvd in St. Louis, Missouri. It was one of the most popular African-American nightclubs in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. [1] It was owned by politician and civil rights activist Jordan W. Chambers from 1944 to 1962. In 1964, the venue became the Riviera Civic Center under new ownership.
The ballroom, long the only one remaining in St. Louis, has been owned by Patrick and Roseann Brannon since the early 1990s. It hosts performances of swing, big band, jazz, and rock and roll music. Lessons in ballroom, waltz, fox trot, tango, Latin and swing dancing often take place before the live music begins. It also serves as a private and ...
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