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Ambassador Joshua McLean
The Frankie Manning Foundation is proud to be part of Google’s Black History and Culture. Here is the feature on Ambassador Joshua McLean.
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Mar 19, 20191 min read
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Mar 19, 20190 min read
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Ambassador Samuel Coleman
The Frankie Manning Foundation is proud to be part of Google’s Black History and Culture. Here is the feature on Ambassador Samuel Coleman.
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Mar 19, 20191 min read
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Norma Miller – Italiano
Norma Miller è determinata a stare con noi tutti per festeggiare il suo 100° compleanno il 2 dicembre 2019, e per far sì che possa...
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Mar 5, 20191 min read
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Norma Miller needs our help!
Norma’s wish is to stay at home while she recovers and to accommodate her wishes we are raising money for a full time aid to assist Norma...
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Mar 4, 20191 min read
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Google’s Black History and Culture
The Frankie Manning Foundation is proud to be part of Google’s Black History and Culture, launched today. It is so wonderful to see Lindy...
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Feb 6, 20191 min read
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The Original Ambassador, Frankie Manning
The Frankie Manning Foundation is proud to be part of Google’s Black History and Culture. Here is the feature on Frankie Manning.
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Jan 19, 20191 min read
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Happy 99th Birthday Norma Miller!
The Frankie Manning Foundation wishes Frankie’s dear friend and colleague Norma Miller a happy 99th birthday. Thank you to the Queen of...
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Dec 2, 20181 min read
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Swingin’ Réunion – an event recap by Ewa “W” Burak
Reunion Island Oct 12-14, 2018 I have always been fascinated by the helicopter perspective. What in the moments seems to be random events...
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Nov 16, 20184 min read
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November is #YoungsterMonth
Last year we began an initiative in the month of November to highlight youth in lindy hop. This year we’re bringing #YoungsterMonth back...
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Nov 1, 20181 min read
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THE FRANKIE MANNING MEDIA ARCHIVE – “A Night at the Savoy”
THE FRANKIE MANNING MEDIA ARCHIVE Norma Miller performing with Billy Ricker, Al Minns, and Frankie Manning at the Village Gate, “A Night...
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Oct 1, 20181 min read
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THE FRANKIE MANNING MEDIA ARCHIVE – “The Big Apple Part 1”
THE FRANKIE MANNING MEDIA ARCHIVE Frankie Manning demonstrates steps from the Big Apple. Video Courtesy of Lance Benishek. 1. Stomp Off...
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Sep 12, 20181 min read
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Guest Post: Vote for Hellzapoppin’ for the National Film Preservation Board
The internet has plenty of posts related to relevant lindy hop dance movies. But, what if there was a program to preserve the original...
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Sep 11, 20185 min read
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Announcing the Frankie Manning Media Archive
The FRANKIE MANNING MEDIA ARCHIVE is digitizing significant footage of lindy hop’s greatest ambassador, Frankie Manning. Much of this...
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Sep 10, 20181 min read
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Swinging Archives and Libraries
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...
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Aug 28, 20189 min read
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Swingin’ at the Savoy
Not to be confused with the book by the same name by original Lindy Hopper Norma Miller. I guess the name was too good to resist!...
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Aug 26, 20181 min read
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Swing Kids (1993)
1993 Directed by Thomas Carter The Lindy Hop scenes in Swing Kids were choreographed under Otis Sallid by Ryan Francois, a very talented...
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Aug 26, 20181 min read
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Stompin’ at the Savoy (1992)
TV Film 1992 Directed by Debbie Allen A melodrama, based on a true story that took place in the Savoy Ballroom in its heyday. The story...
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Aug 26, 20181 min read
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The Call of the Jitterbug (1988)
Documentary 1988 Jesper Sorensen, Vibeke Winding, and Tana Ross. Produced by Green Room Productions. 35 min. sd. color with black and...
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Aug 26, 20181 min read
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Frankie Manning on French Television, 1990 (Age 76)
I just want to make sure everyone gets to see this amazing video that Jean-Christophe Hep and Eric Esquivel found featuring Frankie...
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Aug 18, 20181 min read
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