For the second year in a row, the Paris Jazz Festival renews its collaboration with several Parisian associations dispensing Swing dance lessons. Absolutely free, open to everybody without distinction, the lessons take place everyday of the Festival from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm in front of the pavilion 12. Playful atmosphere garanteed ! |
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The partner associations are:
In United States, the Swing had a tremendous success during the thirties and forties. Everybody was listening to this music and dancing the Lindy Hop, the Jitterbug, the Shag or the Balboa.
Since the nineties, the swing dances started to become fashionable again. The Lindy Hop especially quickly became very successful in USA and then in France. In just a few years, swing dances reappeared in dance schools, concerts, exhibitions, competitions and clubs. |
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The kinds of dance taught are:
During the Swing animations of the Paris Jazz Festival, the kinds of dance lessons dispensed will be:
- The Lindy Hop (or Jitterburg): ancestor of the swing couple dances, created in the early thirties by Harlem’s afro-american community (New York)
- The Jazz Roots: solo version of the Lindy Hop, ancestor of Funk and Hip-Hop dances
- The Shag: evolution of the Charleston in couple, very popular among the students during the thirties.
- The Balboa: Swing dance born in California during the thirties, very close
- The Charleston: predecessor of the Shag and Lindy Hop, extremely popular during the twenties.
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