In most cases, Lindy Hop videos we find online are about competitions, presentations or video classes. In general, people are making movements… away from the cameras. There is not much we can find on Youtube, for example, about where we can closely see dancers andContinue reading
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Why do people dance? – Martynas Stonys
“Why should people dance?”. About eight years ago, questions like this couldn’t get out of Martynas Stony’s head. And, in 2011, when an opportunity to speak about Lindy Hop at TEDx showed up – one of the main programs dedicated to sharing ideas and experiencesContinue reading
Record and share – Karine Hermes
She no longer lives here in Brazil, but when I learned she would be visiting I found a way to chat with her and ask about her opinion on the importance of the audiovisual for the scene of Vintage dances. Karine Hermes started on Lindy HopContinue reading
The records of the Lindy Hop revival: Sweden
In the peak of the Jazz Era, Lindy Hop dancers swung on the theater screen in movies like ‘Helzapoppin’, ‘Keep Punching’, ‘Radio City Revels’ and ‘Manhattan Merry-Go-Round’. Around 50 years later, these feature-length films were still around in the world and were rediscovered by a group of young people whoContinue reading