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 hop given its important place in that cultural history. Click here. […]
Google’s Black History and Culture
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. […]
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 Swing for all you have done and all you do to pass Lindy hop to the next generations. We love you. […]
Swingin’ Réunion – an event recap by Ewa “W” Burak
The following was written by Ewa “W” Burak, lindy hop dancer, instructor, and former member of The Rhythm Hot Shots, Sweden who recently returned from teaching at Swingin’ Réunion along with Lennart Westerlund. Reunion Island Oct 12-14, 2018 I have always been fascinated by the helicopter perspective. What in the moments seems to be random events look different from […]
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 and you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter to enjoy a variety of posts highlighting children and teenagers in our dance community. You might wonder about the word “youngster”; this was […]
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 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 […]
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 2. Hop 3. Cross 4. Rock Time 5. Boogie 6. Boogie back 7. Applejack (“Ho”) 8. Gaze Afar THE FRANKIE MANNING MEDIA ARCHIVE is an ongoing project to digitize significant footage of lindy […]
Guest Post: Vote for Hellzapoppin’ for the National Film Preservation Board
Guest post by Ricardo Ferraro The internet has plenty of posts related to relevant lindy hop dance movies. But, what if there was a program to preserve the original copies of these movies ? Indeed, there is one: The Library Of Congress Film Registry from the Library Of Congress National Film Preservation Board. And the […]
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 footage is rare and never-before-seen. This Frankie Manning footage will be freely available to inspire and educate dancers all around the world. The FRANKIE MANNING MEDIA ARCHIVE is volunteer produced by the Frankie Manning Foundation. Consider […]
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 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 […]
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! Originally produced by Living Traditions, the people responsible for the very successful Lindy Hop revival in Seattle starting in the late eighties, this documentary provides an intimate glimpse of […]
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 young Lindy Hopper at the time. Sallid met Francois while both were working on the Savoy Ballroom scene in the film Malcolm X. Both of these films have had an important influence […]
