Lindy Hop
A partnered swing dance born in 1920s Harlem, New York
Playful, social and endlessly creative, Lindy Hop is a dance about connection — with your partner, with the music, and with a whole community of people who simply want to have a good time. Lindy Hop was born and raised in 1920s Harlem, New York, in the Black community. It found a home at the Savoy Ballroom — the legendary racially integrated ballroom where the best dancers gathered — and got its name around 1928, probably echoing the headlines celebrating Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 flight across the Atlantic. Through the 1930s it was shaped by a whole community of dancers, among them Shorty George Snowden, Frankie Manning, Norma Miller and the entire “Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers” troupe, who added acrobatic tricks to the dance and carried it onto film and stages around the world.