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  2. Mad Hot Ballroom - Wikipedia

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    Mad Hot Ballroom is a 2005 American documentary film directed and co-produced by Marilyn Agrelo and written and co-produced by Amy Sewell, about a ballroom dance program in the New York City Department of Education, the New York City public school system for fifth graders.

  3. Savoy Ballroom - Wikipedia

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    Lithograph of the Savoy created for the New York City Works Progress Administration, 1935–1943. The Savoy was modeled after Faggen's downtown venue, Roseland Ballroom. The Roseland was a mostly European American swing dance club. With swing's rise to popularity and Harlem becoming a connected black community, The Savoy gave the rising ...

  4. LaTasha Barnes - Wikipedia

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    LaTasha Barnes in 2024. LaTasha Barnes is an American dancer, educator, and choreographer. [1] [2] She is the creator and director of The Jazz Continuum, an African roots-based production encompassing Lindy Hop, house dance, locking, breaking, voguing, and jazz dance that connects dance of the swing era to dance today.

  5. 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.

  6. Swing (dance) - Wikipedia

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    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 have survived beyond that era include Charleston , Balboa , Lindy Hop , and Collegiate Shag .

  7. Hot Shots (dance companies) - Wikipedia

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    They started discussing a trip to New York City to find someone who could teach them how to dance the same way. In April 1984, Anders Lind, Lennert Westerlund, and Henning Sörensen (Secretary for the Swedish Swing Society) travelled to New York City seeking Al Minns, a surviving member of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers that Anders had found in "Jazz ...

  8. Lucy Moses School - Wikipedia

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    Kaufman Music Center's Lucy Moses School is a community arts school located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Founded in 1952 as The Hebrew Arts School for Music and Dance, it is now part of Kaufman Music Center, a performing arts complex that houses the Special Music School (P.S. 859) and Merkin Concert Hall.

  9. Broadway Dance Center - Wikipedia

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    Broadway Dance Center is a dance school located at 322 West 45th Street west of Times Square in New York City. It was founded in 1984 as one of the first "drop-in" dance training schools in the world, offering classes in jazz , tap , ballet , contemporary , hip hop and theater .