2. Historical
Background
How swing dancing started. Swing dancing
originated in Harlem during 1920s with jazz music
it was called 'Lindy Hop'. Cop Calloway was one of
the band leaders who developed the type of music
that lent itself to the bouncy movement of swing.
3. The dance developed alongside the jazz
music of the day.In swing music,the
musician play some of the notes late
and the catch up in the next beat or
two . They referred to this as 'swinging
the beat' hence the name was born.
4. What is the country of origin of swing?
Swing dancing originated in Harlem
New York in the late 1920s .
It continued its popularity through to
the late 1940s.
6. •The basic terms of swing is to sway back and forth,
or to move in a sweeping,curving motion.Swing,
sway, oscillate, vibrate, fluctuate, waver, undulate
mean to move from one direction to its opposite.
swing implies a movement of something attached
at one end or one side. the door suddenly swung
open. sway implies a slow swinging or teetering
movement.
8. The basic step is triple step, triple step, and a
rock step. When you're starting out you can
replace the triple step with a single step. In that
case the pattern would be step, step, rock step
or rock step, step, step, depending on how you
start counting. The overall progression is, of
course, the same.
