Swing Dancing Articles!

Dance-related tidbits for your reading pleasure. Guaranteed to make your off-the-floor conversations more sparkling or your money back.

Articles by our very own guest authors!

• "Learning to Swing Dance in Houston, Texas" by Terry Hurley (and revised by The Editors)
  

Tips and Tricks harvested from "in the field" (note: most of these links are, sadly, now-dead. If anyone would like to track down copies I'd be happy to mirror them here):

• Dummies Guide to Host an Exchange
  
• Paul Overton's guide to Swing Music
  
• Lindy Hop History
• What is Lindy Hop
• Dance Ettiquette: http://www.gottadance.org/etiquette_tips.shtml (short version) or: http://austinswingsyndicate.org/etiquette.shtml (long version)
• Article for Follows: http://www.lindyhopping.com/follower.html
• Article for Leads: http://www.lindyhopping.com/leader.html
• Styles of Lindyhop: http://www.lindycircle.com/history/lindy_hop/
• What is Balboa: http://www.lindycircle.com/history/balboa/

The Old Articles (links need researching/fixing! Any volunteers to rescue the contents from either the Google Cache or the WayBackMachine?)

"Styles of Lindy Hop" (archived) by Peter Loggins of The Hollywood Jitterbugs

"How to Lead" by Bill Lapworth

Bill Borgida's "Recommended Music" list. When you enter his site you'll see the link in the upper righthand corner of the page.

Paul Overton's "list of what [he] consider[s] required listening, reading, and viewing for any swing dancer."