Famous dancer
This woman is the famous dance partner of Fred Astaire.
What is Ginger Rogers?
This ballroom dance is considered to be the father of all Swing dances. It is known for its unique, athletic style, and often contains aerial jumps, twists, and flips.
What is Lindy Hop?
This 2016 Blockbuster starring Ryan Gosling repopularized classic jazz and partner dancing to the new generation.
What is La La Land?
This step initiates nearly every move in most swing dancing styles.
What is a rock step?
A group of witches.
This French dancer was famous for her Charleston and even inspired the iconic Betty Boop character.
What is Josephine Baker?
This classic jazz style evolved in South Carolina from the Juba, an African-American style of dance that involves stomping as well as slapping and patting the arms, legs, chest, and cheeks.
What is Charleston?
This iconic 1952 movie became a quintessential swing dancing movie due to its dance numbers featuring Gene Kelly.
What is Singin' In The Rain?
In order to initiate this move, leaders “check the wristwatch.”
What is inside turn?
The hit Halloween film “Hocus Pocus” was filmed in this historic town.
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
A talent scout wrote the following after this famous dancer’s first screen test: “Can’t act, can’t sing, can dance a little.”
What is Fred Astaire?
This dance originated in California when famous Lindy Hopper Dean Collins brought his style to the area in the late 1930s.
What is West Coast Swing?
This 1941 surreal comedy is famous for its energetic Lindy Hop sequence performed by the Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers.
What is Hellzapoppin'?
This move is just like an inside turn, only both hands stay connected the entire time.
What is cuddle?
This vegetable was originally carved for Halloween before pumpkins became more popular.
This Harlem Renaissance dancer coined the term “Lindy Hop” and even had a dance move named after him.
What is “Shorty” George Snowden.
This popular dance style is related to polka, the Texas waltz, and the jitterbug, but has footwork most similar to the foxtrot.
What is Country-Western Two-Step?
This film starring Christian Bale inspired a renaissance of swing dancing in the 1990s.
What is Swing Kids?
This 8 count Lindy Hop move starts like a basic, but differs when leaders put their left hand around the follower’s back and switch hands.
What is Texas Tommy?
This classic play is the origin of the saying: “double, double, toil and trouble.”
What is Shakespeare's Macbeth?
This Broadway dancer was greatly influenced by Ginger Rogers, and was inspired to originate the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway in her honor.
What is Gwen Verdon?
This niche form of 8-count Swing Dancing was adapted in response to ballrooms that were too crowded to Lindy Hop in.
What is Balboa?
In this classic swing dancing film, two sidewalk salesmen enlist in the army in order to avoid jail, only to find that their drill instructor is the police officer who tried having them imprisoned.
What is Buck Pirates?
This aerial stunt starts with followers sitting on the floor holding crossed arms with their leaders.
What is flying lemur?
A lycanthrope is commonly known as this.
What is a werewolf?