POPULAR DANCE HALL: This is what the Blue Moon Dance Hall on East Barre Road looked like in the late 1930s and early 1940s, before two local residents decided to buy it, cut it in half and make two ...
British bandleader Alex Mendham, who is launching an Art Deco Dance Series in San Francisco this month, has long been ...
Step, step, triple-step, swing out, quick stop. Shimmy wiggle jump down no jive -- swing time. More than 400 Lindy Hoppers from around the world partnered up and boogied down in Seattle this weekend ...
A unique phenomenon that popped up in the 1920s and ’30s were the dance marathons. Couples ate and dozed as they shuffled around the dance floor for days on end in an effort to win cash prizes. Corpus ...
There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...
Dance historians who research such things credit American jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway for coining the term “jitterbug.” In 1934, he recorded a lively tune, “Jitter Bug,” that some credit ...
P. 9 3/8 x 10 7/8 in. (239 x 275 mm.), S. 13 x 14 7/8 in. (330 x 378 mm.) ...
Program of a dance marathon held at the Green Palace Ballroom, Baltimore, Md., which began Aug. 8th, 1930, continued for 3181 hours, ending on Dec. 18, 1930. https ...
Are you sick of frothy melodramas yet? Never! The Lifetime network feeds your addiction with "Missing at 17" (Lifetime at 8 p.m. Saturday), a film about a young girl who leaves home to find her birth ...