#lindy hop

[beggars-opera]

IT'S LINDY HOP TIME AGAIN

#dance #swing dance #lindy hop #history

[thunderstruck9]

Miguel Covarrubias (Mexican, 1904-1957), The Lindy Hop, 1936. Lithograph, image: 33 x 24.4 cm. Sheet: 47.3 x 33 cm.

#miguel covarrubias #mexican art #dance #dancers #lindy hop

[witherfide]

*sigh* truly, i’m weak…. swinger dca for my soul

(if i see any weird/nasty comments it’s on sight)

reblogs are cool + closeups under cut

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close ups :)

#my art #mels art #fnaf sb #fnaf daycare attendant #five nights at freddy's #security breach #dca #dca sun #sundrop #lindy hop #silly outfit for the silly robot #i have more hehe #click for higher quality #this is cropped weird sorry lolz #dca moon #moondrop #daycare attendant #au i guess? #fnaf au #fnaf sb au #art #fanart #fnaf fanart #fnaf swinger au

[grayseas-art]

these two make me so ill,,, mustve caught a jitterbug 🤭

#these honestly started out as practice with dynamic poses but the mental illness struck #so here we are #radiostatic #i have so many thoughts about these two its stupid #alastor prefers to follow and vox prefers to lead but they still argue about who dances what part on principle #i hate them sm #human alastor #human vox #hazbin hotel #lindy hop #< fucking LOVE LINDYHOP im so obsessed #artists on tumblr #gray’s artatomy #grayseas-art

[newyorkthegoldenage]

In the Savoy Ballroom's Kat's Korner, Gladys Crowder and Eddie "Shorty" Davis do their famous Lindy Hop, 1939. The woman in the background is Mickey Jones.

Photo: Cornell Capa via Int'l Center of Photography/Magnum Photos/Village Voice

#vintage New York #1930s #Cornell Capa #Savoy Ballroom #vintage Harlem #Lindy Hop #Gladys Crowder #Eddie “Shorty” Davis #Mickey Jones #dancing #dancers #dance #Kat's Korner

[cas-theghostking]

Hi, sorry if this seems like a bizarre request, but I feel it would suit him. Zane seems like he'd be a dancer, and I'd like to see your design of him dancing (it can be as uncomplicated or as complex as you please)! And if you'd like, you could include another Ninja (or as many as you'd like)! It's all up to you; I would like to see him as a dancer! :D

So this ask was from two years ago and I completely forgot it existed but I absolutely loved this idea so here's zane and pixal doing the lindy hop!

#I have a sketch somewhere from when I first got this ask #But it's from two years ago and is 100% missing now #Something about zane (older seasons specifically) gives me this vibe that he would know old people dances #And I drew #Pixane #Cause they give old people couple vibes #Like that old couple who actually love eachother so much #But anyway #Their outfits are 60s/40s inspired #Like a mix of it #And yes these are my desgins of them #Though pix is usually a bit taller and I should've drawn both their shoulders wider #Oh well #Lindy hop #BTW pixels hand in the back is a reference to the charms my abuela puts on her bracelets but none of yall needed to know that- #ninjago #lego ninjago #lego ninjago fanart #pixal borg #ninjago pixal #Pixal ninjago #zane julien #zane ninjago #ninjago zane #To whoever sent me this ask I'm so sorry it took me so long I forgot it existed #Now that I think about it the original sketch mightve been glacier #Dang it now I gotta go find it #Edit: I changed my mind this is pixal pre being rebuilt but everything i said was off its still off on her pre desgin too so

[sarcasmic-skies]

hearing the opening notes of ‘sing, sing, sing’ and the collective groan from everyone at the swing dance. bc it is SUCH a good song and it is THE swing dancing song BUT it’s the full 8 minutes & 40 seconds you’re committing to dance to at an unending fast tempo and by the end EVERYONE is experiencing the gasping for air with burning lungs and quivering muscles and slippery palms and cramps under the ribs and beads of sweat running down your body like raindrops on a windshield and your feet weigh a thousand pounds but you can’t NOT dance. you can’t slow down. you can’t quit halfway. you HAVE to make it to the end. so ‘sing, sing, sing’ comes on and there’s the collective groan and then the frantic scrambling for a partner and then the aggressive jockeying for a space on the dance floor and THEN everyone comes alive to the sweet sounds of benny goodman & his orchestra and the feeling is unlike anything else in the world

#it’s a religious experience #i’m a 4th gen swing dancer & there’s smth so special abt dancing to the same songs prev gen swing dancers in my family did #god i fucking love swing dancing #i have been elbowed and kicked and hit too many times to count during this song #defensive dancing is a MUST for this song #ty posts #ty posts!!!!!! #benny goodman #sing sing sing #swing dancing #swing dance #lindy hop #big band era #swing era #ty swing dance posting

[pythonpie]

Me: asleep

The borrowers in my walls:

#g/t #giant tiny #borrowers doing batshit insane dancing at night #video #lindy hop

[sometimesmyhandswork]

#swing #lindy hop #dancing #drawing #hedgehogs #my art

[prakashkc]

Inktober day 9 - bounce. Lindy hop figure drawing

#artists on tumblr #prakashdraws #inktober #inktober 2023 #lindy hop #moleskine sketchbook #moleskine #ink on paper

[uglysweeteater]

Woop, woop, move your body! ,,〜(⁠ •3•⁠ ⁠)〜 ``

And don't tell me that he can't dance Lindy-Hope! He absolutely can!

Just image how he's happy to dance with his sunspot 💕

#sdj fanart #sunny day jack #sdj jack #lindy hop #sdj oc

[witherfide]

tell me this isn’t the most fun thing u have ever seen!!

(my autism is going feral i love dancing)

#Youtube #not mine #swing dance #lindy hop #they’re all so talented!! #i would love to dance with someone like this #this is hypnotizing oaiwhhwhwhw #text post #undescribed

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Here are Frankie Manning and Ann Johnson at the Savoy Ballroom in 1941. Formal and informal dance contests were a regular feature at the Savoy, and for the best dancers they led to professional careers performing in movies and theater. It was during such a contest that Frankie Manning introduced the first Lindy Hop air step, flipping his partner over his head. Such innovations were encouraged by the friendly rivalry among Savoy dancers. The air step in the picture is called over-the-head and is believed to have been first done by Tops (Thomas Lee) and Wilder (Wilda Crawford) who won the Nee York Daily News’ Harvest Moon Ball Lindy Division in 1940.

[American Lindy Hop Championships]

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“You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.”

― Gene Kelly

#dance #dancers #Lindy Hop #quotes #Gene Kelly

[thechanelmuse]

Savoy Ballroom in Harlem

“The World’s Finest Ballroom.” “Home of Happy Feet.” Langston Hughes called it the "Heartbeat of Harlem." 

The Savoy was a legendary dance hall owned by Jewish mobster, Moe Gale, which operated from 1926 to 1958. Unlike many ballrooms such as the Cotton Club, the Savoy always had a no-discrimination policy. Generally, the clientele was 85% Black and 15% white.

The normal entrance fee was 30 to 85 cents per person, depending on what time a person came. 30 cents was the base price, but after 6 p.m. the fee was 60 cents, and then 85 cents after 8 p.m. Each year, the ballroom was visited by near 700,000 people. 

Many dances such as Lindy Hop were developed and became famous there. 

The ballroom had a double bandstand that held one large and one medium-sized band running against its east wall. Music was continuous as the alternative band was always in position and ready to pick up the beat when the previous one had completed its set. The bouncers, who had previously worked as boxers, basketball players, and the like, wore tuxedos and made $100/night. The floor was watched inconspicuously by a security force of four men at a time who were headed by Jack La Rue, and no man was allowed in who wasn’t dressed in a jacket with a tie.

Chick Webb was the leader of the best known Savoy house band during the mid-1930s. A teenage Ella Fitzgerald, fresh from a talent show win at the Apollo Theater in 1934, became its vocalist. The Savoy was the site of many famous “Battles of the Bands” or “Cutting Contests,” which started when the Benny Goodman Orchestra challenged Chick Webb in 1937. Webb and his band were declared the winners of that contest. 

#savoy ballroom #lindy hop #jazz #ella fitzgerald #black american history

[alightinthelantern]

Cornell Capa- Dancers at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, 1939.

Shown are: Al Minns, Sandra Gibson, Mickey Jones, George Greenidge, Gladys Crowder, Eddie “Shorty” Davis, Joyce and Joe Daniels, William Downes, and Frankie Manning.

#Harlem #1930s #vintage #Cornell Capa #lindy hop #swing dancing #photography #photojournalism #Savoy Hotel #swing #jazz age #jazz

[newyorkthegoldenage]

One of the great Lindy Hop dance teams in Kat's Corner of the Savoy Ballroom, Harlem, 1939: Gladys Crowder and Eddie "Shorty" Davis. The woman in the background is Mickey Jones.

Photo: Cornell Capa via International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos/Village Voice

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1930s #Cornell Capa #Savoy Ballroom #Lindy Hop #swing #swing dancing #Gladys Crowder #Eddie Shorty Davis #Shorty Davis #Eddie Davis #Harlem #vintage Harlem