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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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Learning to Dance on Youtube

connection in dance , dance videos , dancing for joy , leading and following , Learning dance , social dancing , teaching dance

My friend Stu Sweetow, videographer extraordinaire, sent me the picture at the right with the excellent phrase, “Real men take dance lessons, because you can’t learn connection on youtube!”  This inspired me to once again take up my blog, which my many fans have no doubt noticed I have let slip for several months due […]

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In Honor of Frankie Manning

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

This is the week Frankie Manning would have turned 101 had he lived and I always like to leave a tribute for him every year.  I was privileged to have been friends with this wonderfully positive and highly charismatic man for the last fifteen years of his life.   Frankie was one of the people […]

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