Big-band music filled the air and dancers doing the Lindy Hop took to the dance floor for the 1940s Victory Dance at the Westminster Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 467 on the evening of Oct. 9. The ...

Frankie “Musclehead” Manning, a Harlem dancer and Tony Award-winning choreographer widely celebrated as one of the pioneers of the Lindy Hop, a breathlessly acrobatic swing dance style of the 1930s ...

John Land has attended the New Orleans Swing Dance Festival & Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown every year since the event came to New Orleans a decade ago. This year, he will be hosting dancers from ...

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates swing dancer Frankie Manning on what would have been his 102nd birthday. Know as the Ambassador of the Lindy Hop, Manning took swing dancing to new levels by ...

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 ...

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.

Dancer Jean Veloz has died at the age of 98, her friend, agent and manager Rusty Frank has confirmed. Jean, who was best known for her Lindy Hop dances, died at home in Los Angeles on Sunday, ...