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Just a collection of resources that we find useful!
Instructional Dance Videos
LauraGlaess on Youtube
Lindy Hop
30 days of Swing Dancing - iLindy
Introduction to 6 count swing - iLindy
Charleston
Charleston - hand-to-hand, break, kickaway
Swing 2 @ Savoy (Charleston: Kick-Away, Hand-to-Hand, Butterfly Exit, Variations)
Shim Sham
Shim Sham - Frankie Manning & Erin Stevens (1995)
Learn the Shim Sham - for Lindy Hop and Swing Dance
Solo Jazz Steps
Alphabetical Jazz Steps 3 (Chester Whitmore)
Alphabetical Jazz Steps 2 (Bigger & Longer)
Music
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Suggested Reading
Books
Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop – Frankie Manning & Cynthia Millman
Swingin’ at the Savoy – Norma Miller & Evette Jensen
Steppin’ on the Blues – Jacqui Malone
Between the Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance – Christi Jay Wells
Moving to Higher Ground – Wynton Marsalis
Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance – Marshall & Jean Stearns
Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty First Century – Linsay Guarino, Carols R.A.Jones & Wendy Oliver
Stomping the Blues – Albert Murray
A Little Devil in America – Hanif Abdurrafqib
Blogs and Websites
Swungover - by international Jazz Dance Instructor Bobby White
Collective Voices for Change - Addressing the issues of racial inequalities and cultural appropriation in the Jazz dance community in Europe and around the globe.
Frankie Manning Foundation - carrying on the legacy of renowned Whitey's Lindy Hopper Frankie Manning
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