What is Swing Dancing? - CheltenhamSwing.Dance

What is Swing Dancing?

Swing dancing is a form of Jazz dance, and evolved with music where the beat ‘swings’. Its origins are firmly as an African-American dance, starting in the 1920s, in Harlem, New York, and building popularity through to the 30s and 40s. It is a rhythmic, social dance building on connection with a partner.

The Lindy Hop led to dances such Balboa, Jitterbug, Jive, Western Swing, West Coast Swing, East Coast Swing, Rock & Roll, Ballroom Jive, Boogie Woogie, Acrobatic Rock & Roll, Modern Jive and much more.