The Lantern

Swing dance has a home in Columbus with local dance groups

Swing on over to some local dance groups to learn about Lindy Hop, a dance with historical and cultural ties. SwingColumbus is a small, local swing dance group that mainly focuses on Lindy Hop, the ...
The Inlander

Woodside Swing provides both community and education for Spokane-area swing dancers

Like many sports, dance can present several barriers to access, especially for adults. For example, most ballerinas start out at a very young age, which means the form is especially unwelcoming to ...
Post and Courier

Charleston dance club keeps people swingin' to the dance with the city’s name

Once a week in a small hall of a downtown church a group of amateur hoofers gather to keep a dance born on the streets of Harlem, but with its heart in Chuck Town, beating. Like the “secretive” ...
KTVB

Twirling, dipping, stomping at The Farm: Non-alcoholic swing dance club in Garden City attracts big crowds

Friday night at The Farm means a dance floor peppered with cowboy hats and flannels. Little lightbulbs hung above the crowded dance floor among the cardboard candy hearts that were put up for ...
The Digital Universe

BYUSA blasts to the past with Sweetheart Swing dance

BYU students danced the night away at the annual BYUSA Sweetheart Swing dance on Feb. 11. Put on by BYU student activities, the 50s themed dance hosted about 700 people and featured live performances ...
Columbia Daily Spectator

Harlem Dance Exchange celebrates a century of swing

As two dancers clasp hands and spin across the dance floor, their movements perfectly correlate with a black-and-white video of the same dance being performed nearly 100 years before. Last Saturday, ...
The New York Times

What It Means to Have That West Coast Swing

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A wave of viral videos highlight a style that participants call addictive and innovative. Descended from the Lindy Hop, it has few traditional markers ...