Doing the Lindy Hop | AI Enhanced Swing Dancing in 1939 [60 fps]
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- Опубликовано: 29 окт 2020
- AI restored 1939 film of women swing dancing the Lindy hop using advanced algorithms and manual techniques, this 16mm film was brought to life.
It features some great footage of swing dresses, not to mention some lively Lindy hop dancing.
Those pretty swing dresses and bobby socks are a joy to see in this clarity.
See if you can spot the guy in the zoot suit!
Filmed before the outbreak of WW2, the film perfectly evokes the spirit of freedom in the United States. Jazz and Swing became the sound of liberation and freedom during the fight against fascism.
The Lindy Hop, as with Swing Jazz itself, emerged from the African American community. Yet another reminder of their huge influence on the popular culture of the United States.
Taken from original Kodachrome home movies by Philip Medicus.
You can view all the films in varying quality on the Internet Archive Library. It resides in several collections including the Prelinger archive.
archive.org/details/Medicusc1...
Restored to 4k 60 fps clarity using Neural networks.
The Deep Learning Restoration Process:
Some of the deep learning AI machines like Dain, and DeOldify are freely available from the Github community, if you are prepared to learn how to use Google Colab.You can also try the DainApp for desktop, but will need a computer with a good graphics card, and lots of patience.
This was the process I followed:
1. Removed artifacts and noise.
2. Interpolated new frames ( from 24 to 60fps) using the DainApp, to add depth awareness
3. Upscaled the original 480p film to 4K resolution using Topaz Video Enhance AI and Vidcoder.
Music Wat Dat Dee by Technoaxe and granted permission to use under the Creative Commons CC 4.0 license
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Visit / teknoaxe for more royalty free music for your RUclips projects.
This short AI enhanced film is published here for preservation purposes and to add an immersive experience to the work of early filmmakers.
It is free to view and not commercially available on DVD or for republishing elsewhere.
Published here under the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video as outlined by the Center for Media & Social Impact.
cmsimpact.org/code/code-best-... 
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this just made 1939 a lot more real for me
Yeah, the past can seem like nothing more than a fantastical concept due to it being glamorized by the media. Videos like this one showing real people back then grounds us in reality.
Yeah, really brings the past to life!!!!!!! Love all the colors/variety!!!!
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@@BooBoo-pu1jh Should have done it way back
Awww. Look at all those best friends spending time with their good friends. This is what Friendship should always be. Having fun with your good ol buddies.
haha pretty sure those are lesbians
@@topherh5093 Well lesbians are allowed to have fun too? :) and only some of them possibly are. People generally were more innocent in those days, you see a man and a woman also dancing and many of the girls were likely just friends.
@@steviewondek Lesbianism isn't any less innocent but most of those girls probably were just friends or maybe had only just met each other that day
look at all these stellar GalPals, simply vibing
@@topherh5093 That's ridiculous. More women than men came out for the event so why would they stand there and waste time waiting for one of the 10 guys to ask them when they could just dance with the female friends they came with. It's not a very sexual/romantic dance.
This is so strange. It feels so immediate. Not having the veil of nostalgia blocking your vision gives a whole other perspective on the passage of time.
That's a good way to put it
I've never heard that phrase before, but it sounds so accurate
Could you imagine being able to see real life moments at this level of clarity from all time periods of human history?
yes !incredible..I feel like a time traveler - spying on them.
I love intimate videos like these. Makes the past seem so alive and real.
I love the clothes, love the hairstyles, the moves, the company. Such a joy to watch!
I loved swing dancing in the 50s and early 60s. I made up my own steps but the girls caught on fast.
Song is dark and disturbing
Seeing this in colour makes them all seem so contemporary! Love!
The original video was also in color, by the way.
@@lambgaming1347 There was no video in 1939. This is film using AI and 60 fps to make it look like video.
@@lcs1956 This film is a video.
@@lambgaming1347 Video tape machines did not exist until c. 1956. This was recorded using photographic film and obviously transferred to a video format and uploaded to RUclips. Television existed in 1939 but only in a black and white version. Any recording of television programs until the invention of video tape was accomplished by the means of a kinescope which essentially is the recording of a television program off of a television screen with a motion picture camera using real film as the recording medium.
@@ddkoda This film can be called a video. Its not a picture, its a video.
Time is such a thief.
God Kronos eat his childrens...
Great profile pic
"The flow of time is always cruel"
Time is a present.
"Time waits for no one". o/~ o/~ o/~
As usual, the girls can't get the boys to dance so they dance with each other. 😂 Some things never change.
Now no one dance
@ the swing dancing community is bigger than you think 🤔
@@madmax2152 he’s talking about in general dude come on
It was so pure in past better than today
Ha ha, so true.
My grandparents met each other in this year . ( Picnic ) My grandma was a teen. They married in '41 .Grandpa died at only 65 on Nov 15th 1980 . My wise and sparkly granny👩🦳 died at 85 . Feb 29th 2009. She always said to me : 1939 Was a great year !!! 🥰 I met your grandpa 👨🦳 !!!!
1939 was indeed a great year.......Until September 1st, 1939 0445 in the morning....
@@cripplehawk In my country at Westerplatte
@@filipwojcik778 ....Poland.....
Wow.
1939 was arguably Hollywood's best year.
I'm positive this is from the New York World's Fair of 1939. Saddle shoes were the sneakers of that time for the ladies.
I was about to say the same thing until I read your comments . I saw a lot of international flags and foreign language booths. The fact it is a mixed crowd to me looks like it had to be the 1939 -40 New York World's Fair.
Yes, absolutely the 39 worlds fair
I used to think saddle shoes were something for horseback riding.
@@Barnekkid Same.
I immediately had the same thought. My mother talked about visiting the 1939 World’s Fair as a young teen.
She also tried to teach me the Lindy hop, but I have two left feet. Cheers and let’s hope we can have some fun in 2021😀
I love it when we can all(black, white, etc) come together and get along.😘
That's banned in America now. Everyone has to either acknowledge being a victim or an oppressor based on skin colour.
@@Joke_Bidumb The elites want people divided, they are easier to control . They promote false narratives of white supremacy .
@@BarbRogersMs.SolarTerror It's gruesome.
@@Joke_Bidumb
You also forgot based on politics and how you see life differently from each other. In other words you are not aloud to be different anymore from others or have choices or What you like or don’t like lol
Amen
This video makes it feel so real as if you are actually there!
Interesting . Notice the racial integration and everyone getting along
That’s what I noticed, too. We’ve gone backwards in our society today.
@@CoraJean19 Sad but true.
Really? Racial integration, because a handful of black girls are allowed on the dance floor? Do you see any interracial dancing couples? You realize in 1939 the US still had sundown towns.
@@CoraJean19 If you really believe that you have a very poor understanding of history.
@@sethingtonJ Interracial couples existed in the United States well before 1939. Learn your history. Most of racial narrative being taught today is a lie.
That's when you dance like nobody uploads it on RUclips
boy were they wrong
@@lordoftheflings I don't think they care as they are dead.
@@edwardr5084 lol
@@edwardr5084 I think you missed his joke
@@ksy4747 nah...few folks are really funny
Wow how wonderful to see this. My mother was 16 and traveled to this Worlds fair in 1939 with her 3 sisters and my Grandparents. Her oldest sister Vera was newly married in 1937 and her husband, my uncle Bob had an automobile at the time and they all went together on this trip. They visited several relatives on the way so it took many days to get there and back. No major highways or big motels back then. I have several photos of this trip since my uncle Bob had a little camera too. Sadly they have all passed away now, but the memories of the stories told and the few photos of that trip still remain.
Where did they travel from to get to NY? Like what was their home city?
Most folks had an automobile, a little odd of a statement, was it one of the more pricey automobiles?
that's a beautiful story
MY GRANDMAS WHO PASSED ALSO WENT! LOL I HAD AN UNCLE BOB ALSO.
The trip sounds absolutely lovely. Sad that they have passed away, time flies.
Fashion, Friends, Different Cultures all coming together… loving life to the full. Great footage.
They had so much fun dancing back then. I wish it was still like this today. Great exercise too!
Those saddle shoes made a comeback in the early 70's. All the girls wore them in my school.
They came back around the late 90s too. I remember all the girls begging for them in middle school
@@ShannOliver I can attest to that! There was a pair in delia*s that I asked for and never got.
@@krystal1722 Same here! I wonder if any of us actually got our saddle shoes or if they were just pipe dreams from our parents... 😂
@@ShannOliver I had a pair in the 90s! I had my grandma make me a poodle skirt to go with it.
@@namewithay that sounds so cute!
Nice to see a mixed crowd back then.
Yes girl, yes...❤💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
Why?
@@bobsmith6953 because some people live under rocks 😂 mentally
@@anasantana4702 So, are there too many Chinese in China? Or Indians in India?
@@anasantana4702 That's true, The Democrats do.
In 100 years from now, RUclipsrs in the future will look at our dancing today and just shake their heads.
Dancing is one of the arts which will stop evolving but repeating itself , so is 2121 they may dance same as in 1912 or as in the 90s
@@Ognyan397 Actually that's an interesting idea. Dancing won't change unless the tool by which is it performed (the human body) changes. However, just THINK of all the cool new dance forms that one could create with cybernetic enhancements :-D How I hope I get to see it!
@@kayEnt3rtainm3nt for me 90s dancing is the best
More like a confused look on their face
lol there is no youtube in the future let me tell you that.
I found this so cool, so much action, I watched it like 5 times just to watch different people. These AI vids bring the past back to life so well. I love the integration too, reminds me the past is not one dimensional.
I can't stop watching this. Please more of these enhanced old films! You just about get a feeling that the video was taken just yesterday. It's so surreal!
*This is hilarious because if you go to any dance hall where people in their 70's, 80's and 90's congregate on a weekend night they STILL DANCE EXACTLY LIKE THIS.*
Omg yes skdjjs
So half a century from now old people will be twerking, great
@@Raikiri290 oh God 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Raikiri290 loool
Determinism is Freedom 🤙 🤙 🤙 🤙
My mother was born in 1939 ♥️
I wish she was here I have so many questions and I think how I could be watching these wonderful videos with her. She passed in November 2009 I was too young to lose her. I miss her so much. 😔
@@nihalc.5539 I'm so sorry 😔💔
@@nihalc.5539 ♥️
Death is horrible
@@Anthony-qb2gr
I want to love FOREVER!
@@MistyLaneLoveConquersALL love forever or live forever??
I'd say a lot of the outfits those girls are wearing wouldn't look out out of place today. Though dresses would have been more the usual then. Its strange how we stereotype some eras , though the 1920 70s or noughties where a bit odd. but we only look to the extreme examples of the time.
You got the happy dancers, conservative dancers, newbs, professionals, weirdos, all on one dance floor... love it
👍 and here I was thinking weirdos were a modern phenomenon 😉
I know! No skanks or gang members either!!
No matter the description of the person, we're all made out of the same material.
These 60fps videos of old footage are the best thing on RUclips.
You always think of these times as being so classy and dignified but then you see it in color and 60fps and realize everyone was just as goofy as us.
0:16 love this pair ❤️
Yeah , I sort of hope they were in love and took the chance when they got it, it must have been very difficult to be gay in those times.
No one is over weight in this video.
Determinism is Freedom 🤙
@@Polyglot_English There is no freedom in fascism.
Well, they are all very young. No middle aged spread yet.
“Supersizing” your meal and Starbucks didn’t exist....
The Age of Fat was still over 40 years away.
This looks like filmed with a cell phone in the 39'
Better yet. A professional with a film camera.
The only YT video I watched from start to finish in a month, oh so charming. Bring calm back again.
Didn’t realize how much I need a pair of saddle shoes until this very second
I've had a really hard time finding a pair of saddle shoes that fit. I'm a 6.5 and 7 is too big, 6 is too small, and a lot of makers don't make half sizes. I think I have like 5 pairs in my closet waiting to be stretched from a 6 to a 6.5.
same!! wow...
@@Direness where did you get them? I've been looking for some last week. I hope I could get a pair online. I totally resonate being a half size. LoL
I happen to need the same as you. LoL
I went to HS in the mid 70s and bought a pair of black & white saddle oxfords like I used to wear when I was 10. I dared wear them in HS and no one ever said it didn't look good. Why? Because I liked the retro look back then, and it looked really cool on me when I wore them with Levis or cords, a short navy blue pullover sweater with a white collar shirt sticking out. Yup even in the 70s it looked good. It would today too, with the right confidence and walk.
@@kathleenalarid1150 I agree 😁👍
Different colors, races and cultures having fun together in the 30’s?!? I think we regressed not progressed.
New York would have been less segregated than the South at that time.
It’s New York. No segregation laws, but was socially segregated.
Nahhh lol trust you would not wanna be black in 30s America, be it north or south.
Oh give me a break. All colors party together today!!! And don't get it twisted, they were still lynching and killing blacks at this time in certain pockets in the south.
Both mainstream media and social media have contributed to the regression. We should all ignore them and get together for an outdoor dance event. Old time music and all.
Neat to see it in color and all. I must say some have a little more rhythm.and get-up-and-go than others do. Not many boys wanted to Lindy Hop apparently.
They were either working or in the military overseas at this time.
@@skateboarding118
This was at least a year, maybe two, before guys enlisted.
@@TighelanderII I don't think this was in the US
@@thatonedog819
Gawd, I thought I saw someplace that this was from the World's Fair in New York.
@@thatonedog819 This is new york 1939 worlds fair.
You do a fantastic job of creating something very special from not much starting out. Thanks for your efforts!
Just love these old clips that keep entering my feed. Subscribed!
This is the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, NY.
and the interboro parkway was built from Brooklyn to Queens so people could drive to the fair
Seeing this old video spruced up and in colour makes it seem like it wasn't that long ago :)
I wish I had a time machine because I don't think we are living in the best of times.
Great job restoring and coloring this film. Also great editing.
What a joy to watch ! Thank you for these remastered videos !
I took a ballroom dance class and we learned a bunch about swing! It's the best class as I've ever taken and I highly reccomend learning to everyone!!!
Thank you. This looks like such a chill way to spend the afternoon.
I sure appreciate you fixing these up and sharing them, all the lovely golden moments in time of your channel...they’re so nice to see.
And....God knows the younger people need an example of normal human and community behavior...😉😊
I think of my Grandma and Grandpa when I watched this. They were 20 in 1939 and my Grandpa played the trombone in a band. I bet that was a great time to grow up in.
1939???? Get out your history book!
WWII 2 years away 👌🏻 plus a draft 👌🏻👌🏻
let's go ladies! Love their enthusiasm.
@monkiecher. They are very beautiful ladies.
Shut up
This looked soooooooooo fun! Great clip. Thanks for posting!!
✌🏻🙂✌🏻
I’m hooked on this channel, it’s fascinating 💕
That song actually sounds really nice!
It does, I love it!
Electroswing
omg i love their outfits😍😍
No isolating from each other by staring down into a touchscreen and no pandemics. Nice!
Except the 1939 flu epidemic
Someone needs to learn about history instead of just immediately assuming everything was perfect in the past and everything is bad now.
You mean plandemic! The evildoers got the blind sheep where they want them; ready for the slaughter!😎
@@richardea4223 oh my God shut up
Whoever digitised these tapes and then cleaned it up with colour did a fantastic job, it probably took ages.
Actually, it was on film.
Another great video! Thank you so much for the splendid work of remastering and for bringing us some knowledge about how things were in those times!👏👏👏
Brilliant ! Simply lovely to see everyone having fun together !
yes today people would say we are racist, homophobe, anti-immigrant scum. I wish I lived back then
I've got to say, I am very into video restoration and this is so special!! What a great job!! It's so wonderful to see in clear color a taste of what life was like back then.. Black and White is sometimes very cool but you get a much more real experience with this.. Keep up the good work... please!! Signed New Subscriber!!!
This is why my grandma looked like that. Imagine Genz in their 80s now lol.
Lol ya...grandma what was the music like back in your day? Well we had WAP
They all look so happy. I wish more guys had taken part in the dance.
I think it was probably filmed on a weekday. Most of the men would have been at work. The ones you do see would be students and people who can afford to take the time off. There would be a lot more men and children about on a weekend.
Many of the men were also in service by this time in England, which is where I think this is filmed.
@@lonelyglen New York
@@lonelyglen This is the New York World's Fair.
I remember at dances in high school in the 80's the girls always danced together.
The subtitles simply said "um" almost the whole time, which was exactly my reaction when trying to copy the dance steps😂
Your channel and all video renditions are 🌟amazing🌟
0:17 Oh those two? Yeah, they’re really close friends.
Could be a mother and daughter?
The woman facing the camera looks like she'd rather be anywhere else. That is a spectacular lack of enthusiasm.
I get the impression this was a dance marathon and they are exhausted and holding each other up lol
And yet, I find the Gal looking at the camera VERY cute !!!
@@FunSizeSpamberguesa if you think that woman would 'rather be anywhere else' than cheek to cheek with her friend then you are a terrible judge of human nature.
"They're just good friends"
🤣🤣🤣best comment yet- especially girls 17-19 seconds
yea, i was looking for this comment. My father was born in 1927. He says it was VERY improper for a woman to dance alone. It was like putting herself on display for the pleasure of men...that's how it was seen and it was not a good thing to do at the time. so women and girls dancing together like this was extremely common on most dance floors. The girls want to dance but had to men to dance with, so they danced with their sisters, mothers, best friends, etc :)
Edit: Oh my father just told me though it was very bad for a woman to dance alone, it was pretty much impossible for a man to. A man who danced alone was thought to be homosexual and people would call him a "homo" to his face, right there...and a fight nearly always broke out. So men also did not dance alone.
@@adiarainfoster Italian
@@adiarainfoster that's very interesting.
@@scot909 wtf are they doing? 😂
My Father taught me the Lindy in the 50's. Sigh...
Ive just been binge watching all your vids and I can’t stop crying omggg
They're not that bad!
OH MY G O S H !!!!
BEST OF YOUR WORK
E V E R !!!!
the timing of the music, the type of soundtrack plus extrà beats! And the colors in your restoration!
Ahhh !!........
Their fashion is just 😍😍😍😍😍😍
I like how everyone isn't obese.
And obsene
Or dressed like an ex-con
They also aren’t wasting their time making youtube comments complaining about fat people
Or dressed like harlots.
@@mr.scoggins very true. So classy then. Imagine Cardi B ruining this video
Wow amazing work on this. Almost looks HD. Made it look as if filmed today.
Thanks for the tech stuff. Almost inspired me to tackle such a fun project, but I'll just enjoy yours...
EVERYONE dressed like they had self respect.
Facts miss that!
@DEAD GRATEFUL No they did not. Where do you come up with this nonsense? Respect and decency was common in those days becasue people still had a moral compass.. It wasn't until the Marxist socialist education system led to the 60s rebellion did we see a more debased society rise up. Because they thought they were going to hell. No its becasue they hadn't yet been demoralized.
@@vikinglife6316 Exactly!
@@vikinglife6316 He's a grateful dead mark, whadya expect from a guy who follows a degenerate 1960's cia hippie lsd pushing band from out of laurel canyon.
People like him think being repressive and disciplined is bad because they are spiteful mutants and genetically weak.
@DEAD GRATEFUL too bad your ignorance of Christian values blinds you about this era. They certainly didn’t think they were going to hell for one sin. Women and men alike dressed to cover areas in which the member of the opposite sex wouldn’t commit an act of lust and fall into sexual deviancy.
Look. Oh, my God! Standards of dress!
It's nice to see in 1939 there was a mixing of the races with absolutely no one seeming to notice, or care. My perception of the era changed immensely after viewing this. My grandmother would have been 26, my mother six on this day this was filmed. 💯
Racism is not what you see, it's what you don't see. A few blacks are there. You will NOT see a black man touching a white woman.
@@MrCuddlyable3 I'm not sure if you are aware of this...I am African-American. Born in Arkansas, raised in the Deep South (Louisiana, Mississippi) most of my life. I am ACUTELY aware of how racism can be subtly implied, if not explicitly displayed. The fact that no man of color would have made physical contact with a Caucasian woman, or vice-versa, does not detract from the scene of different races mixing and enjoying music/dancing...together.
@@Davedio I know as little about you as you know about me. For all I know, you might be a boy named Tom who wears rose-tinted spectacles. Do you also think it was nice of the Montgomery bus company to let Ms. Rosa Parkes enjoy riding in their bus with "absolutely no one seeming to notice, or care"?
@@MrCuddlyable3Your reply is rather nonsensical, to the point of being condescending...so I'll wish you a good day and will ignore any further comments. (P.S.: Her name was Rosa Parks, not Parkes.)
@@Davedio Thank you I stand corrected, Mrs. Parks was born Miss McCauley and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote about a Tom.
Great video...thanks for sharing!!
You are looking at an age of innocence rarely seen before and never to be seen again. Farewell to old skool.
Age of innocence? You mean the age of racism and segregation.
@@Misaelito1991 Innocence, not perfection. There is a dictionary available online for help if needed.
@@Misaelito1991 Yeah that's why the dance floor here is mixed race. Get over it.
Gotta throw out the typical “look not one cell phone, every one just enjoying the moment” comment
Yea and no animals
If they'd had phones, they'd have been looking at them.
@The Final Rumbling 😂
Incredible quality. Blown away 🎆
Totally amazing ... great work! 👍
I LOVE this! This is so much fun! Wow, the film looks amazing.
OMG!! It really feels like this was recent!
Old music with a modern beat.
Love it!
Another crazy good video. Awesome music !!
All Colors! All Classes! Sleek Men. Hot Lasses! Style wider than a mile...Beyond BEAUTIFUL! Where did it go...?
Wonderful! Very handsome man sat at the piano...bet he was a hit with the ladies! You can see how it evolves into rock n roll dancing.
That's Kenny Sargent, the band's ballad singer. Band is Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra.
@@davividavid oh wow, thank you for that info!
Reminds me of my piano teacher, haha. He was a musician in the 1950s, and a big deal among the ladies in high school, so I hear.
@@davividavid @D.A. Kolodenko Ah! I thought I remembered that being the case. I like to imagine that at least one of these segments with fast swing-outs was going on while the band was hammering out 'No-name Jive.'
Excellent as always 👏🏻
OMG! I just saw my grandfather, and he was NOT with gramma!
Wow, I wish I could go back in time! 😊❤️👍
To World War 2?????
Just found your channel and I ❤️ LOVE it! Subbed!
Lucky for your grandma to have experienced these times and lucky for you to still have her around. Oh, the stories she must tell!
0:16 Some 1939 no-shits-given right there..
cheers.
They all looked skinny. Damn what goals lol
Economic depression coupled with very few processed foods definitely had that effect. My mother was born in ‘32 & her most prominent childhood memory was always being hungry. 💔
skinny??..I think you mean normal...it's this current generation that thinks obese is the way to be
Less processed food with a ton of sugar and chemicals
McDonald’s didn’t exist then and it wouldn’t for another nine years. 😭
this was normal even in the 90s.
I miss normal.
Wow ! Wonderful to see young people enjoying, simple great fun ! Wish we had more of this today. 👍
My mother was 15 and my dad was 14 then. To see the past like that is awesome.
My grandmother was 16, and she was already married with a year old baby when this video was made.
Wow! Those girls are older than my parents. (My father was born in 1927, and my mother in 1934.) They must be centenarians if they`re still alive.
@MrEjidorie. Your dad is 93 and your mon is 86. The girls in video are beautiful.
@@bhimsenluchooman4046 Yes, indeed. Beauty of those girls will be preserved in the film forever. This is a magic of motion picture. My mother is 86 years old now as you say, and she is still in a good shape though she excludes herself in her apartment due to Covid-19.
@S G
Grandparents for me. My parents were born 2 years later
My great grandparents were born around 1926 I believe.. so this would be their generation, no?
@@MrEjidorie Those people in the video are all dead. 💀
This brings such a smile to my face!!! I want to be there!
That was brilliant, thank you. M.
You'll be lucky to dance to a big band like this. At best, all you get is a speaker wall, a couple of turntables and one stoned-out DJ.
wow, in color, looks like just yesterday...amazing!
Happy fun days please bring them back!! Lovely video thank you!! 👍❤
Nicely done!
It's like I'm actually in the video thank u for these I love them
Towards the end, there is some Lindy. Much of what they are doing is foxtrot and a little Balboa.
Nice catch. I take it you're a connoisseur or a professional on the subject.
@@Aivottaja I studied Lindy Hop for years with some of the originators of the dance, namely Frankie Manning and Martha Washington, along with the Nicholas Brothers when they were all brought out of retirement in the early 90s by Erin Stevens and Steven Mitchell (Pasadena).I also went to Sweden to study with the Red Hot Lindy Hoppers because if you are going to learn early American dance styles, you go to Sweden. ;) I was lucky enough to learn from the best: Ryan Francoise, Rob Van Haaren, Jonathan and Sylvia et al. So, I was excited to see something like swing. But Lindy can be difficult to learn and teach. These dancers are great and fun, but it has a look of swing, Bal and foxtrot was just easier or a way to rest sometimes.
@@Gleem1313 great information thanks Jen
@K. Victor Not sure why you are so angry. In the early 90s, many people were travelling to Sweden to learn all sorts of American dances, Frankie was there too-teaching. The Red Hot Lindy Hoppers were teaching those dances with love and respect of all those who preceded them. Certainly, Erin and Tammy Stevens at the Pasadena Ballroom Association were teaching-with Frankie, Steven Mitchell, Martha Washington, Ryan Francois, Rob Van Hering and others to bring the joy of American dances to the people. The very idea that a person could get angry about going outside of America to learn our dances is ridiculous. It was meant in a joking manner and wasn't insinuating that a person couldn't find instruction in America. The Swedish embraced it early on and the community loved going there-sleeping on a gym floor and all. Jeez. Lighten up. (And please, don't insult the generation who loved Lindy and do to this day. Many in their generation danced happily AND shared steps with us "young folk" and enjoyed that it was coming back. I know it is seemingly hip to be ageist right now, but it doesn't look good to anyone. Lindy Hop is about joy and sharing. There is no place for anger or blame. Graciousness is key.)