When the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing, so was swing dance. A century later, “Swing!” celebrates the music and the moves of this era of jazz. The musical, featuring well-known songs by artists ...

When Amado Peña, Racquel Torres and Arthur Knouse met, they weren’t known to the world as the Burque Jazz Bandits, but rather a group of friends who loved to hang out and swing dance on a weekly basis ...

Swing bands, and the couples who moved across the dance floor to those popular tunes, ruled the roost in Westchester in the 1930s and 1940s, with hundreds of dancers showing up for a night out at Glen ...

Swing dance is a group of dances that developed with the style of jazz music between the 1920's and the 1950's. In recent years, swing dancing has made a comeback in popularity. Many bars, restaurants ...

The next Bainbridge Swing Dance is set for April 4 and will feature Dr. Zoot. The dance takes place on the first Saturday of every month at Family Life Center, 16349 Chillicothe Road, with doors ...

“Swing!,” which opens tonight at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, is a dance show. But not the way “A Chorus Line” or “West Side Story” or “Chicago” are dance shows. While those musicals may feature some ...

Swing dance on Friday nights has become increasingly popular in Fountain Square since the Naptown Stomp Lindy Hop Society started swinging in the early 2000s. Every second and fourth Friday of the ...

Clarinetist Benny Goodman was in the midst of a faltering national tour with his young orchestra when he arrived in Oakland late in the Depression-ridden summer of 1935 for a brief run at McFadden's ...

Penn Square was swingin’ Friday night. That was thanks to dancers with the Jazz Collective Lancaster and the musicians of Parlour Noir, a swing band from Philadelphia. Dancers did the Lindy Hop, more ...

It was a little hard to hear him over the sound of “In the Mood,” but Mark Nelson had an explanation of why a big crowd is drawn to Concord every two months to dance to music that’s nearly a century ...

If the winter blues have settled in, a few holiday pounds just won't go away, or you've got a New Year's resolution to keep, swing dance events around Long Island may just be the answer. From ages 8 ...

Strings of lights and glowing stars overhead. An intimate, romantic, white-tablecloth setting. Music by some of South Carolina’s most sought-after jazz musicians. And the sparkle of champagne to raise ...