Like many sports, dance can present several barriers to access, especially for adults. For example, most ballerinas start out at a very young age, which means the form is especially unwelcoming to ...

We just had to give summer one last whirl. Michelle Miller leads the way: Dancing under the stars can be enchanting, romantic and timeless. Every year in parks across the country, bands strike up ...

When the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing, so was swing dance. A century later, “Swing!” celebrates the music and the moves of this era of jazz. The musical, featuring well-known songs by artists ...

Imagine for a moment that you have traveled back in time to a 1940s-era dance hall. Men and women are crowded on the dance floor, a jazz band plays lively swing music in the corner. The couples hold ...

Swing on over to some local dance groups to learn about Lindy Hop, a dance with historical and cultural ties. SwingColumbus is a small, local swing dance group that mainly focuses on Lindy Hop, the ...

“Swing!,” which opens tonight at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, is a dance show. But not the way “A Chorus Line” or “West Side Story” or “Chicago” are dance shows. While those musicals may feature some ...

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 a chilly February night in the Highlands Community Campus building, the wooden basketball court is illuminated by strands of warm white lights, paper lanterns are strung from the ceiling and a ...

Swing dance is an exciting form of dancing that came to the forefront during the peak of swing Jazz from the 1920's through the 1950's. There are many styles of swing dance with each one of them ...

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