Swinging Projects for Lindy Hop & Balboa Dancers
This is simply amazing! I had the opportunity to see the new version live in NYC at Frankie95 last year and it still gives me the shivers when I watch the video now!
Enjoy!
The new version of the music is performed by the George Gee Swing Orchestra.
Clayzapoppin vs. Hellzapoppin
Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging (Documentary)
Biographie Frankie “Musclehead” Manning – in German
Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging, is a half hour documentary produced and directed by Julie Cohen, the producer of the hugely popular shows The Jews of New York and New York Goes to War.
“Frankie Manning was a man who truly LIVED every moment of his life”, said Julie Cohen, director of the documentary. “Having spent the past two months watching hundreds of hours of footage of him dancing from the 1930s to the present, I’ve seen the joy he took in every step.”
The program also features an interview with Ruthie Rheingold, a 92 year old Jewish woman, who along with her partner Harry Rosenberg made up the only white couple to dance in Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, and a reunion between Frankie and Ruthie, caught on film.
“Never Stop Swinging” features the last major interview of Frankie Manning before his death, as well as precious archival footage of his dancing from the 1930s to 2009 in New York, Hollywood, Sweden, France, Italy and Singapore.
Footage highlights include scenes of Frankie Manning’s birthday parties, where he danced with one woman for each year he’d been alive, the legendary dance scene choreographed and headlined by Frankie Manning for the movie “Hellzapoppin'” and the phenomenal duet with his 76-year-old son, Chazz Young, himself a professional dancer. Frankie was a born storyteller, with a huge smile and an even bigger laugh.
The documentary was premiering on Thursday, 21st May 2009, on Thirteen.
What do you think about this documentary? Please leave a comment!
This was a special video presentation at SVJD's second annual Swing/Jazz Dancing Music-Video Contest.
Description: The famous Lindy Hop scene from Hellzapoppin can't be done better.
But it can be re-done. Here's our rendition.
Participants: Lukas Allenbaugh, Katie McLaughlin, Celeste Olds, Jason Schroeder, Jared Luxenburg, John Platt, Amy Weber
And here is the original dance scene by Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, featuring Frankie Manning (in the Mechanic's Dungarees), from the movie “Hellzapoppin” (1941):
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Article “The King of Swing” on FLYP
Biographie Frankie “Musclehead” Manning – in German
Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging (Documentary)
Song of the Week: Frankie's favourite Song “Shiny Stockings”
Vom 21.-26. Mai 2009 wurde in New York ein riesiges Geburtstags-Festival anlässlich Frankie Mannings 95. Geburtstag organisiert. Dieser Anlass ist allgemein als Frankie Fest oder Frankie 95 bekannt.
Leider verstarb Frankie Manning (16.5.1914-27.4.2009) einen Monat vor dem Anlass und das Geburtstags-Festival wurde kurzum zu einem inzwischen schon legendären Gedenk-Festival.
Die Organisatoren riefen im Vorfeld dazu auf, den Shim Sham in der lokalen Szene auf Video aufzunehmen und auf Youtube zu veröffentlichen, um einen Zusammenschnitt für das Festival herzustellen. Über 160 Videos wurden produziert, u.a. auch vom Schneeschuh-Shim Sham, aufgenommen im März 2009 während dem 1. Geneva Lindy Exchange:
Wie ihr seht, wurden Ausschnitte aus diesem schweizerisch/französischen Beitrag in den Global Shim Sham übernommen.
Jedes Mal, wenn ich den Global Shim Sham sehe, bin ich gerührt!
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This is an awesome routine by my friends Marcia Bodenmann, Flora DalMolin, Tina Foppa, Maria Trodella & Nick Akerhult!
They performed it the first time at the Balboa weekend “Shuffle the House” in Schaffhausen/Switzerland on 20th March 2010.
The Song is “Satan Takes a Holiday” by Dolly Dawn & George Hall And His Orchestra. Enjoy!
What do you think about the choreography? Leave a comment below!
Shuffle the House 2011, Schaffhausen
Global Shim Sham
Shim Sham Flashmob Bern
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