Moving in Measure can never pass up a chance to post any clip of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, and the 106th anniversary of Ms. Rogers’ birth is certainly as good an excuse as any. While uptempo numbers like Swing Time‘s “Pick Yourself Up” are great demonstrations of technical ability and connection in the purest…
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Happy Birthday, Frankie Manning
Today’s Google Doodle pays tribute to the 102nd anniversary of the birth of Lindy Hop legend Frankie Manning — responsible in some measure for helping to develop and innovate the dance into a true genre beyond a social descendant of more traditionally ballroom-based styles. As a choreographer, he also helped expand the style’s public presence,…
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Happy Birthday, Fred Astaire
While Astaire and Rogers got the nod in our inaugural Wednesday Watch, the anniversary of his birthday on May 10, 1899, provides a wonderful excuse to celebrate a fair quadruple threat in Roberta‘s “I Won’t Dance” sequence, by turns comedic and virtuoso: Befitting a renown for technical purity and concern with the absolutely correct, Astaire…
