Famous Dance Moves
This move involves shifting weight back and forth through your left and right legs.
What is the Swinging Charleston?
This dancer was ranked by the American Film Institute as one of the top 5 screen legends.
Who is Freddy Astaire?
The swing dance era began in the.....
What is the 20's and 30's?
The shoes women wore
What is Shoes with a flat soul or medium heel?
This style is danced to rock music of various kinds, blues or ____ _____ music but usually not to jazz.
What is Boogie-woogie?
This move involves moving like a flightless bird.
What is the chicken walk?
This dancer was famous for founding the "Lindy Hoppers"
Who is Herbert White?
Swing is an evolution of this style of music
What is jazz?
The outfits women wore
What is tight fitted shirts and long skirts?
This style is also known as Six-count Swing, Triple-Step Swing, or Single-Time Swing.
What is East Coast Swing?
This move has the dancers step forward with their left, step back and cross, and kick ball change.
What is the anchor step?
Freddy's dance partner and an accomplished film star.
Who is Ginger Rogers?
This is another name for the Lindy Hop.
What is the jitterbug?
Shoes men wore.
What is shoes with leather soles?
This style is a slotted dance and is done to a wide variety of music including: blues, rock and roll, country western, pop, hip hop, smooth, cool jazz, R& B, and funk music.
What is West Coast Swing?
This move is also classified as the "jitterbug."
What is the Lindy Hop?
Who is Dean Collins?
the Lindy Hop originated in this neighborhood in Manhattan.
What is Harlem?
Attire women should avoid wearing while swing dancing
What is high heels and sandals?
This style is is a very upbeat dance in which the performers look to be hopping off the ground.
What is Jive?
This move has a pair of dancers step forward, connecting both feet, and stepping forward and repeat
What is the coaster step?
This dancer is widely regarded as the "King of Swing."
Who is Frankie Manning?
Type of attire men should avoid wearing
What is shoes with rubber soles?
The style has a long association with Lindy Hop as many of the earliest Lindy Hoppers in the early 1990s moved to Lindy Hop from a _____ ___ ____ tradition. This style is debated as to whether its music constitutes under swing.
What is rock-and-roll?