The Board of Directors of the Frankie Manning Foundation wishes to thank Mandi Gould for her many years of dedicated service. Mandi...

Thank you to Professor Christi Jay Wells for this seminar on Saturday, May 30, 2020. ⭐For ESL, you can follow along with the script here....

Daphna Harel is a friend and supporter of the Frankie Manning Foundation. She has put together a wonderful list of swing music albums to...

Enjoy these newly released copies of Hellzapoppin’ and A Day at the Races, two of the greatest lindy hop performances of all time, now...

Guest post by Zoë Webb Click here to view the document Existing literature is full of many, many articles attempting to define...

A wonderful initiative by Karen Campos McCormack “So just a month to go for Norma’s 100th. Last year when I was staying in NY I created...

By Puxtana Manhiça Associacao Hodi Email: associacaohodi.cult@gmail.com We all watched. She started dancing and the choreography was...

I believe the music told Frankie what to teach in class. Frankie had often a song in mind that inspired him as he figured the material...

There was a time, back in the 90’s, when regional and stylistic differences in Lindy hop were front and center, and even the cause of...

— Chad Kubo My Dad loved Big Band music and one day, when I was young, he showed me his collection of 78 rpm records. I asked him why he...

Reunion Island Oct 12-14, 2018 I have always been fascinated by the helicopter perspective. What in the moments seems to be random events...

The internet has plenty of posts related to relevant lindy hop dance movies. But, what if there was a program to preserve the original...

Guest Post by Karen Campos McCormack In March 2018 I was lucky to spend a month in New York, in Harlem, researching the history of Lindy...

I just want to make sure everyone gets to see this amazing video that Jean-Christophe Hep and Eric Esquivel found featuring Frankie...

Lindy Hopper Andrea Cody has been running a summer dance camp for kids for the 12th year in a row. Presented at Soreal Dance Studio by...

Some of us remember the days of the Vietnam War: unending gloomy news, daily atrocities on our TV screens.  It is heartening to realize...

Dance with your favorite instructors and raise money at the same time! Have you ever participated in a taxi dance? Taxi dances a great...

Our team is made up by Luz Restrepo and Juan Diego Alzate as directors and teachers. Also, Joanna Agudelo and Fabia Abela as teachers. We...

It’s no secret that Lindy Hop has become a worldwide phenomenon; no matter where you live, no matter how far you travel, you can find a...

We’ve received a wonderful update about the BeHoppers lindy hop group in Brazil: “Here in Brazil we (the BeHoppers) we decided to honor...