At the 1998 Herräng Dance Camp, Cindy Geiger interviewed Chazz Young about his life and career. The Frankie Manning Foundation thanks Cindy Gardner of TC Swing for permission to reprint “All That Chazz” from Strutters Quarterly. Read the interview here […]
Written by by Paulette Brockington George Sullivan, Harvest Moon Ball Lindy Division champ of 1955 with then-wife Ruth “Sugar” Sullivan, died at age ninety-three on September 10, 2021 in Miami. The cause was a stroke that left him hospitalized. Called Sully by his friends, he was wise, funny, smart, and inspiring, such a nice man. […]
The Jazz Continuum is streaming online for free until September 9, 2021 on the Jacob’s Pillow website. The Frankie Manning Foundation would like to congratulate Board Member and Ambassador LaTasha Barnes, and the entire creative team of The Jazz Continuum on their successful world premiere at Jacob’s Pillow 2021 Dance Festival. Following a residency to conceive […]
The Frankie Manning Foundation is thrilled that the Google Doodles team has chosen to highlight the Savoy Ballroom with a swing dance video game and an interview with living legend Sugar Sullivan! Click here for full behind the Doodle scenes. We wish to thank David Madison for helping forge a connection between Google, the Frankie […]
This collaborative group worked very hard for three years to produce an accurate translation (they held auditions for translators!), and we thank them for their extensive efforts to share Frankie’s memoir with dancers in their country. It truly was a labor of love. Organizers: Weiming Zeng, Beibei Huang Publishing: Johnny Tu Coordinators: Nancy Qin, Effie Yang […]
The Frankie Manning Foundation is excited to announce a special film presentation. Dance historian, Tradition-bearer and scholar Prof. E. Moncell Durden will share full interview footage of his stirring conversation with the late Frankie Manning. A snippet of which can be seen within Prof. Durden’s powerful documentary about the black dance continuum “Everything Remains […]
The Frankie Manning Foundation would like to make clear that while there was some interaction in the past with Felipe Artefuego by some individual board members and representatives via our social media channel, the FMF Board has never discussed, reviewed nor endorsed the work of Felipe Artefuego. We do recognize that the correspondence from individual […]
The Board of Directors of the Frankie Manning Foundation wishes to thank Mandi Gould for her many years of dedicated service. Mandi volunteered with our Ambassador Program from 2010-2012. After joining the board from 2012-2020 (with a leave in 2015), she worked tirelessly to support our mission of sharing Lindy hop and Frankie’s legacy with […]
In case you missed it, this is the very beautiful gravestone for Norma Miller that was unveiled last week. Thank you to the many hundreds of donors who helped make this possible. Article from The Syncopated Times […]
The Frankie Manning Foundation does not endorse social dancing without masks and without the proper social distancing. […]
This is a time of change in the Lindy Hop community and the Frankie Manning Foundation is also undergoing changes. At this time, we are putting out a call for applications for support in the following areas: Website Management (WordPress) Includes host management, email configuration, and technical support Social Media Coordination (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and […]
The Lindy Hoppers of the African Diaspora Fund is now called the BLACK LINDY HOPPERS FUND – The Frankie Manning Foundation is happy to announce details about the Black Lindy Hoppers Fund (initially announced as the Lindy Hoppers of the African Diaspora Fund), a new independent program operating under the Houston Swing Dance Society: The […]
