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With a professional dance teaching career spanning over three decades, LaurieAnn Lepoff specializes in teaching people with two-left-feet the skills of leading, following and dancing to the music, while working with the psychological and physical barriers of the human body.

Best floors for Lindy Hop Slides!

Connecting Socially , dance videos , inspirational dancing , Lindy Hop , performance dance , social dancing

Swing dancing has a wide range of styles because it’s a street dance, constantly changing with the creativity of the dancers.  Slides are tricky steps.  They’re not that common, due to the difficulty in executing them properly.  You’ll only see them performed by advanced dancers, and they’re always show stoppers.  If you’re a bay area […]

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Happy Birthday, Frankie Manning!

about LaurieAnn , Dance History , dance videos , dancing for joy , dancing in the golden years , Lindy Hop , social dancing , teaching dance

Today my friend and mentor Frankie Manning would have turned 102.  If you’re a dancer, you would have been delighted if you used google and noticed the google doodle honoring Frankie’s birthday.  Several people brought this to my attention, which is all to the good, because although I missed the pleasure of seeing it  by […]

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