Many of his dances were built around a " gimmick ," such as dancing on the walls in " Royal Wedding " or dancing with his shadows in Swing Time, that he or his collaborator had thought up earlier and saved for the right situation.

The dance allows for both partners to improvise steps while dancing together, putting West Coast Swing in a short list of dances that put a premium on improvisation.

Lauré Haile, Arthur Murray National Dance Director, and an instructor of teachers documented swing dancing as done in the Los Angeles area and used the name " Western Swing ".

West Coast Swing ( still known as Western Swing at that time ) is the basis for the dancing in the rehearsal scene in “ Hot Rod Gang ” ( 1958 ).

Murray's taught Western Swing beginning from a closed position and the possibility of dancing single, double, or triple rhythm.

When the Golden West Ballroom, in Norwalk, California, changed from Country to Ballroom dancing, the dance most advertised on the Marquee was West Coast Swing.

In the mid 1970s, disco music and dancing repopularized " touch " partner dancing, and, in California, West Coast Swing was one of the dances of the era.

By the 1990s country western dancers were dancing West Coast Swing to contemporary country western songs.

In practice, West Coast Swing may be danced to almost any music in 4 / 4 time, and music of many different styles may be found in an evening of West Coast Swing dancing.

In Chicago and in the south they had their own style of Swing, which was more two-step based, and most of these regional swing dances gave way to various influences, such as other dance forms of dance but also the decline of dance bands and partner dancing after WW2.

East Coast Swing is a standardized dance in " American Style " Ballroom dancing, while Jive is a standardized dance in " International Style "; however both of these fall under the " Ballroom Swing " umbrella.

It is strongly influenced by the Mambo, Swing, Argentine Tango and Latin Ballroom dancing styles.

* Blue Suede Shoes ( Swing dancing )

It is said that the dance style came from France, where Swing / Rock and Roll dancing had not been so suppressed by the onslaught of Disco.

Swing music and dancing are what's happening.

Since 1988, the London Swing Dance Society have held ' Stompin ' on Monday nights, a swing dancing evening with classes and regular live bands.

* East Coast Swing, a popular form of swing dancing

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They can be also seen dancing in a ' New Jack Swing ' style form based on their wardrobe and choreography, which was not seen in other hip hop and R & B videos at the time.

Originally known as " Eastern Swing " by Arthur Murray Studios, the name East Coast Swing became more common between 1975 and 1980.

Lindy Hop was never standardized and later became the inspiration for several other dance forms such as: ( European ) Boogie Woogie, Jive, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing and Rock and Roll.

When the album Swing When You're Winning ( in reference to his 2000 studio album Sing When You're Winning ) was released in late 2001, it became an instant hit in the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Hardcore subsequently became a broad umbrella term, as a variety of different sub-genres arose, such as ; melodic hardcore ( Avail, Lifetime, Kid Dynamite ), emo ( Ashes, Endpoint, Saves the Day ), d-beat ( Avskum, Aus Rotten, Skitsystem ), powerviolence ( Spazz, Dropdead, Charles Bronson ), thrashcore ( What Happens Next ?, Voorhees, Vivisick ), mathcore ( Dillinger Escape Plan, Botch, Converge ), screamo ( Heroin, Antioch Arrow, Swing Kids ) and rapcore.

The origins of the dance that became known as West Coast Swing can be traced to the swing era.

Swing music, or simply Swing, is a form of American music that developed in the early 1930s and became a distinctive style by 1940.

Swing became a major part of African American dance, and came to be accompanied by a popular dance called the swing dance.

In 1936, also via WOR, Mutual began broadcasting the reports of news commentator Raymond Gram Swing, who became one of the country's leading voices on foreign affairs.

Slap bass was used by Western Swing and Hillbilly Boogie musicians, and became an important component of an early form of rock and roll that combined blues and what was then called hillbilly music — a musical style now referred to as rockabilly.

He became one of the best-regarded bandleaders and drummers of the new " Swing " style.

and Magoo became part of SCI Zakys School stable of Swing Mob signees known as " Da Bassment " crew, joining artists such as R & B singer Ginuwine, male vocal group Playa ( Smoke E. Digglera, Static Major and Digital Black ), and the girl group Sugah.

In the United States the term Swing became the most common word used to describe the dance.

" Swing ", the album's lead-off single, peaked at No. 20, while the follow-up " Ladies Love Country Boys " became Adkins ' first Number One single on the country charts since "( This Ain't ) No Thinkin ' Thing " in 1997.

He released " Move It To the Left " ( credited to Sultans of Swing ) in 1992 on the Strictly Rhythm label, which became a moderate club hit and led to a string of singles released under several monikers for that label.

While with Whitey's, Manning also danced with Norma Miller, who became known as the Queen of Swing.

Since then Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became a song to sing at England home games, in the same way that Fields of Athenry is sung in Dublin and Cwm Rhondda is sung at Cardiff.

That initial Anglican connection became more formal when he was received into the Episcopal Church ( Anglican Communion ) as a priest in 1994 by Bishop William Swing of the Episcopal Diocese of California.

" Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " has been sung by rugby players and fans for some decades, but became associated with the English national side, in particular, in 1988.

The uprising, that eventually became known as the Swing Riots, spread across southern England and East Anglia.

By the time Celebrate And Party became popular, the transformation to an near-perfect a cappella mimicry of the New Jack Swing style had been achieved, with a sound similar to Take 6, Boyz II Men, and Tony!

The recording, indeed, became one of the most famous and popular anthems of the entire Swing Era.

The name " Swing Kids " ( Swing Kinder ) is a rough translation of the German Swingjugend (" Swing Youth "), which was a sort of parody of the numerous youth groups that flourished before the National Socialists.

" The members of the Swing youth oppose today's Germany and its police, the Party and its policy, the Hitlerjugend, work and military service, and are opposed, or at least indifferent, to the ongoing war.

In January 1943, Günter Discher, as one of the ringleaders of the Swing Kids, was deported to the youth concentration camp of Moringen.

Swing came to be accompanied by a popular dance called the swing dance, which was very popular across the United States, among both white and black audiences, especially youth.