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  2. West Coast Swing - Wikipedia

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    West Coast Swing. West Coast Swing is a partner dance with roots in Lindy Hop, characterized by an elastic look that results from its extension-compression technique of partner connection and is danced primarily in a slotted area on the dance floor. The dance allows for both partners to improvise steps while dancing together, putting West Coast ...

  3. Swing (dance) - Wikipedia

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    Origin. 1920's, Harlem, New York City, U.S. [1] Evita and Michael at 2011 Catalina Swing Dance Festival. Swing dance is a group of social dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s, with the origins of each dance predating the popular "swing era". Hundreds of styles of swing dancing were developed; those that ...

  4. Country–western dance - Wikipedia

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    Western couple dancing is a form of social dance.Many different dances are done to country-western music. These dances include: Two Step, Waltz, Cowboy or Traveling Cha Cha, [2] Polka Ten Step [3] (also known as Ten Step Polka [4]), Schottische, and other Western promenade dances, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, and Nightclub Two Step.

  5. East Coast Swing - Wikipedia

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    East Coast Swing (ECS) is a form of social partner dance. It belongs to the group of swing dances. It is danced under fast swing music, including: big band, rock and roll, rockabilly, and boogie-woogie. Yerrington and Outland equated East Coast Swing to the New Yorker in 1961. Originally known as "Eastern Swing" by Arthur Murray Studios, the ...

  6. 90-year-old shows off incredible dance moves

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    Updated May 9, 2019 at 3:31 PM. 90-Year-Old Shows Off Incredible Dance Moves. Jean Phelps Veloz is an icon of 'Hollywood-Style Lindy Hop' for the current swing dancing generation. She dances West ...

  7. Jitterbug - Wikipedia

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    Jitterbug is a generalized term used to describe swing dancing. [1] It is often synonymous with the lindy hop dance [2] [3] but might include elements of the jive, east coast swing, collegiate shag, charleston, balboa and other swing dances. [4] Swing dancing originated in the African-American communities of New York City in the early 20th ...

  8. Dance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States of America is the home of the hip hop dance, swing, tap dance and its derivative Rock and Roll, and modern square dance (associated with the United States of America due to its historic development in that country—twenty three U.S. states have designated it as their official state dance or official folk dance) and one of the major centers for modern dance.

  9. Category:Swing dances - Wikipedia

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    Swing dance moves‎ (1 C, 7 P) W. West Coast Swing‎ (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Swing dances" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.