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For a small community in Utah, 1920s–40s swing dancing is still alive and kicking. Alyssa Nelson dances with another BYU club member at a Vintage Swing Dance Club dance (Denis Nicholson). “If you ...

What is swing dancing? Developed during the 1920s to 1950s, swing dancing features a group of dances in the swing style of jazz music. The most well-known of swing dances is the Lindy Hop, a mix of ...

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, ...

On Thursday nights, people can find themselves in the "peak" of the action at Peak Nights Country Swing Dancing. Boots, laughs and dancing. If this meets the criteria for a good time, then that is the ...

Pairs of swing-dancing electrons do the Lindy Hop in “Superconductivity: The Musical,” the winning video for this year’s geektastic Dance Your PhD contest. Pramodh Yapa, a graduate student at the ...

Swing dancing is a style of dance popular in the 1920s through the 50s. Types of dances that fit into this genre include the Charleston, Lindy Hop, Balboa and West Coast Swing. Although its origins ...