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Come along to Hot Charleston! I am teaching the famous Big Apple Routine for most of this year. My aim to for enough dancers in Leeds to learn this so we can not feel afraid or alone when the track comes on at socials, instead we will rush to floor full of energy and excitement!Book here: https://swingdanceleeds.dancecloud.com/
BIG APPLE ROUTINE:
The Big Apple that you see performed at lindy hop events today is a routine choreographed by Frankie Manning for Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers. They performed the routine as part of their regular repertoire from 1937 and then in the 1939 movie Keep Punching. Frankie’s choreography was inspired by a dance craze that was sweeping the nation at the time. According to legend, he never actually saw that dance–he just heard someone describe it over the telephone and from that conversation came up with the routine you see today.
The dance craze of the same name was started by a group of white University students who had created a circle dance based on dancing they’d seen in a black juke joint called “The Big Apple”. The dance they came up with, which they originally called the Little Apple, was reminiscent of ring shouts a group dance done by African-Americans in the South at least as far back as 1860.***
Check out Whitey's Lindy Hoppers performing The Big Apple in Keep Punching here:
You do not have to attend all workshops, each will be stand alone, but if you do take them all you will know the whole routine by the end.
*** This is from one of Tina's flashbacks on the history and culture of Lindy Hop. If you want to read more there's plenty to learn:
https://swingdanceleeds.com/flashback/
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