The King of Swing Dance – American Public Media

Keeping with the Lindy theme, I thought I’d post a really great interview with Frankie Manning a couple years ago. Most interesting to me is his description of what it was like to walk into the Savoy Ballroom every week. I can only imagine stepping into a ballroom full of 2,000 people with a band as amazing as Chick Webb or Duke Ellington playing. Man, what a time to have lived!

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Published:: 05.01.09 / 3pm

Category:: Dancing

Tags:: frankie, frankie manning, interview, lindy, lindyhop, swing

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Christopher M. 05.01.09 / 5pm

Thanks for another great post. In a future post could talk about music that would be suitable for dancing the Lindy Hop. A suggestion for another post might some of the most common/popular Lindy Hop steps/moves.

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I have three passions: Dancing, climbing, and technology.

I am a Lindy Hopper, a style of dance that began in the early 1920’s. I dance with Charm City Swing, Baltimore’s premier swing dancing venue. You will find me EVERY Monday night on the dance floor.

I live to climb things. It took me 25 years to figure this out but I can’t imagine life without it. I primarily enjoy bouldering — For me, the lack of ropes and freedom take bouldering to purest level of climbing.

I founded and work at Fusion Bay, a web application development firm with Adam Douglass. We program cool things for clients and ourselves, like the popular Wordabble iPhone application and GiftListIt.

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