Street Dance in Context: The Jiving Lindy Hoppers
Part of the Regent's College Artspace Festival
Monday 22 March, 7:00 - 9:00pm in Tuke Hall
- followed by drinks & post-show discussion in the Knapp
Gallery
Contemporary forms of "street dancing" have a much longer history
than many realise, and a fascinating connection to a wide variety
of cultures and traditions, modern and old.
A select group from the
Jiving Lindy
Hoppers will give a lecture–demonstration on this subject,
using dance, music, film material to illustrate this fascinating
history of one of the most important forms of participant
fusion-culture in Modern times.
The dancers will demonstrate contemporary and historical forms
of street dancing.
It will be of interest to young people who enjoy contemporary
street dancing of various types, those who have experienced older
forms of social dancing, and people who have a scholarly interest
in the history of cultural hybridity in the 20th and
21st centuries.
The Jiving Lindy Hoppers were founded by Terry
Monaghan (an historian with an enthusiasm for social dance) and
Warren Heyes (one of the most experienced ballroom dancers in the
UK with an interest in the history of dance cultures).
They came together in 1983 to learn how the
Lindy Hop and related forms of swing dance were danced in ballrooms
like the Savoy Ballroom in the USA at their birth. They learned
from some of the original Lindy dancers, like Mama Lou
Parks, and grew to become one of the major Swing Dance
Companies of the world.
Terry Monaghan is now one of the leading
authorities on the history of the Lindy Hop and related dance
forms.
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