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 this map of Norma Miller’s Harlem, the venues where she danced and other important spots (most of them no longer standing) based on her memoir. It’s work in progress […]
THE FRANKIE MANNING MEDIA ARCHIVE Norma Miller performing with Billy Ricker, Al Minns, and Frankie Manning at the Village Gate, “A Night at the Savoy.” Event and footage produced by Larry Schulz. Read Frankie’s description of this night in Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop. https://www.frankiemanningfoundation.org/book/ THE FRANKIE MANNING MEDIA ARCHIVE is an ongoing project to […]
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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 hop thanks to the support of the Frankie Manning Foundation. I had previously researched the history of swing via the internet, Amazon, second hand bookshops and the limited […]
Guest Post by Karen Campos McCormack This might not be a widely known fact among the Irish Lindy Hopping community, but Frankie Manning was in Dublin in 1937. He was performing with Whyte’s Hopping Maniacs, as Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers were billed on this European tour with the Cotton Club Revue. They landed in Dublin following […]
Read More… from Harlem on Parade: Whyte’s Hopping Maniacs in Dublin
Just a few years after Frankie Manning retired from the Post Office, when the momentum of the swing dance revival was just starting to build, he was approached by two Broadway producers who were bringing the Paris production of “Black and Blue” to Broadway. They had heard that Frankie was an original dancer of the Harlem […]
Interviews conducted & article written by Dan Gorman The Frankie Manning Foundation only came into existence six years ago, but today it is at the forefront of the global swing dance scene. Frankie Manning was one of the originators of the lindy hop at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, and he later played a pivotal […]
Read More… from Lindy Hop for All: Interviews and Oral History of the Frankie Manning Foundation
The idea for the Frankie Manning Foundation came about during the early planning stages of Frankie’s 95th Birthday Festival, when Frankie was still alive. Organizers Buddy Steves, David Jacoby, Tena Morales, and Elliott Donnelley decided that the Festival would be a nonprofit and an all-volunteer endeavor. The vision for the Festival was to bring the […]
Read More… from Frankie Manning Foundation History: Background
The idea for the Frankie Manning Foundation came about during the early planning stages of Frankie’s 95th Birthday Festival, when Frankie was still alive. Organizers Buddy Steves, David Jacoby, Tena Morales, and Elliott Donnelley decided that the Festival would be a nonprofit and an all-volunteer endeavor. The vision for the Festival was to bring the […]
Read More… from Frankie Manning Foundation History: Background
