“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 ...
The Mad Hat Hucksters, founded in 2015 by swing dancer Morgan Day, are a jazz sextet playing music in the style of small combo dance bands of the 1930s swing era. Their repertoire includes traditional ...
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 ...
As two dancers clasp hands and spin across the dance floor, their movements perfectly correlate with a black-and-white video of the same dance being performed nearly 100 years before. Last Saturday, ...
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 ...