Swing Dancing

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This book is intended to serve as a guide to various forms of swing dancing, and will ideally contain descriptions and pictures of various moves. This textbook is of course not meant to be a replacement for actual practice and lessons, but a reference and source of new ideas.

Contents 1 Technique 2 Basic Swing Dances 3 Dance Moves 4 Appendix 5 External Links

[edit] Technique

1. Etiquette
2. Connection
3. Musicality

[edit] Basic Swing Dances

1. Charleston
2. Lindy Hop
3. East Coast Swing
4. Balboa
5. Collegiate Shag
6. West Coast Swing

[edit] Dance Moves

1. Sugar Push
2. Skip up
3. Side Pass
4. Circle
5. Groucho
6. Silly moves
7. Jazz dance moves
8. Aerials

[edit] Appendix

1. Swing dance glossary

Lindy-Hop Jitterbug

[edit] External Links

• Instructional Swing Dance Videos
• Ross Mernuk's Swing Dance Steps - Comprehensive listing, including a "cheat sheet"
• Keith Edwards's move list
• Jiveoholics Anonymous Dance Step Database - Steps for modern jive, many of which can be used in swing dancing.
• Poy.no - An FTP/HTTP repository for swing videos.
• How2Dance.com - Free instructional video clips for swing dancing.
• goswingdancing.com - Resources for swing dancing.
• About Dancing A site ABOUT DANCING: Explanations, calendars, events, cruises, etc.
• iDance.net Swing dance lesson site