![]() Between 147th and 148th street, Harlem "threw itself into the Lindy Hop with abandon" as Sugar Hill residents watched from the bluffs along Edgecombe Avenue. In 1935, 15,000 people danced on Bradhurst Avenue for the second of a dance series held by the Parks Department. In 1932, twelve-year-old Norma Miller did the Lindy Hop outside the Savoy Ballroom with her friends for tips. Lindy Hop is sometimes referred to as a street dance, referring to its improvisational and social nature. El Lindy Hop s’impregna de l’esperit més clàssic del jazz, és improvisació, és llibertat d’estil, és connexió. ![]() És una fusió entre els moviments dels balls africans i dels balls socials europeus. Partners may dance alone or together, with improvisation a central part of social dancing and many performance and competition pieces. El Lindy Hop va néixer al cor de Harlem, concretament, a la sala Savoy de Nova York a finals dels anys 20 i va esdevenir una revolució. Lindy Hop today is danced as a social dance, as a competitive dance, as a performance dance, and in classes, workshops, and camps. While Lindy Hop definitely deserves its place in history books, it is still danced today, all over the world Modern Lindy Hoppers strive to stay true to the joyful spirit and jubilant style of vintage Lindy Hop while continuing to evolve the dance. There was renewed interest in the dance in the 1980s from American, Swedish, and British dancers and the Lindy Hop is now represented by dancers and loosely affiliated grass-roots organizations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. In this step's open position, each dancer is generally connected hand-to-hand in its closed position, leads and follows are connected as though in an embrace on one side and holding hands on the other. In its development, the Lindy Hop combined elements of both partnered and solo dancing by using the movements and improvisation of African-American dances along with the formal eight-count structure of European partner dances – most clearly illustrated in the Lindy's defining move, the swingout. Willa Mae Ricker and Leon James, original Lindy Hop dancers in iconic Life magazine photograph, 1943 Norma Miller and Skip Cunningham 2009 Lindy Hop Dance, 2013
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