A little of lindy and a little of blues, the Balboa (born in Jazz Age California of a bit of dancefloor pragmatism) and its Bal-Swing variant can in some ways be the best of all worlds: closed hold and connections, quick tempo and (in the swing style) a few flourishes — and even, perhaps, a…
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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,…
Dance, Feature, Profile
Suspending Animation: Dance photographers capture a motion
by Jacquelyn Thayer For photographers of dance, the trick of creation comes in capturing the most active of arts in still form. The challenge is the addiction for Bill Frederking, professor of photography at Chicago’s Columbia College, where he has taught since 1983. Frederking, not a dancer himself, first stepped into the field in 1989…
