In the new documentary “Alive and Kicking,” the world’s renewed interest in the Lindy Hop — popularly known as swing dancing — is presented as more than a series of improvised steps; it’s a ...

They’ll make your dancin’ dreams come true! Brooklynites can get down with some of the world’s best swingers next weekend, when the American Lindy Hop Championships jitterbug their way onto the ...

No wonder local swing dancer Nick Davis has fallen hard for Lindy hop. It’s sexy, funny and fresh. It’s the most goddamn exhilarating movement I’ve seen. Watching a video of dancer Frankie Manning ...

If your thing is high-energy dance, set to the beat of bouncy pop standards, then you better bop over to the Hilton Stamford Hotel this weekend. Beginning Friday, Oct. 22, energetic dancers will ...

Michelle Miller, an award-winning journalist and author, is a co-host of "CBS Saturday Morning," where she covers a wide range of stories, anchors breaking news and handles newsmaker interviews.

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 ...

What is it? The lindy hop, also known as the jitterbug, is an Afro-Euro-American swing partner dance that originated in Harlem in the 1930s. What's needed? Non-restrictive clothes and comfy shoes, ...

She was known as the Queen of Swing, a dancer who helped make famous the lindy hop, a fast-paced, acrobatic dance popular during the Big Band era of the 1930s and 1940s. Suggested Reading After ...

Young tappers and venerable jitterbuggers are brushing off their dance shoes and getting ready for the third annual Masters of Lindy Hop & Tap festival, kicking off tonight at the Century Ballroom.

When the band starts cookin’ and dancers hit the floor at Century Ballroom this week, somebody will be missed. Frankie Manning, the joyous master and ambassador of Lindy Hop swing dancing, passed away ...

Norma Miller, a dancer, comedian and big-band singer whose acrobatic flips, slides, leaps and twists helped popularize the Lindy Hop dance craze of the 1930s and ’40s, earning her the title “Queen of ...