We attended the exuberant opening night of A Very SW!NG OUT Holiday on Tuesday, December 9 at The Joyce Theater where the ...

She was known as the Queen of Swing, a dancer who helped make famous the lindy hop, a fast-paced, acrobatic dance popular during the Big Band era of the 1930s and 1940s. Suggested Reading Poll: Trump ...

In the new documentary “Alive and Kicking,” the world’s renewed interest in the Lindy Hop — popularly known as swing dancing — is presented as more than a series of improvised steps; it’s a ...

The Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown by the New Orleans Swing Dance Festival is coming up as dancers polish their dancing shoes for the festival starting on Thursday, October 1st, running through Sunday, ...

On Wednesday nights, the old Underwood typewriter factory on Arbor Street in Hartford comes alive with the sounds of Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Lionel Hampton and Duke Ellington.

When Mike Thibault finished high school in 1995, his graduation present from his grandparents was a series of ballroom dance classes. Thibault was an aspiring saxophonist, and he knew a slew of ...

They’ll make your dancin’ dreams come true! Brooklynites can get down with some of the world’s best swingers next weekend, when the American Lindy Hop Championships jitterbug their way onto the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by To watch LaTasha Barnes dance is to watch historical distance collapse. By Brian Seibert If you want to understand the connections between jazz dance ...

As I follow the distant, brassy trill of a saxophone emanating from John F. Kennedy Drive, I take a deep breath, attempting to quell a feeling of mounting nervousness. It’s just before noon on a foggy ...