JUST outside of Costa Rica’s busy capital, in a small andscantly lit nightclub on Guadalupe’s main road northeast of SanJosé, some of the country’s top dancers gather religiously tomove to a rhythm of ...

“Swing dancing is the pursuit of happiness,” says a sweetly earnest dancer early on in Susan Glatzer’s irresistible documentary “Alive and Kicking.” As you watch beaming duos twist themselves into ...

Located in one of the last original Art Deco buildings in downtown LA, the Cicada Club hosts a weekly Vintage Era Swing Night every Sunday. The Oviatt Building was built in 1928 and was once home to ...

While spinning under the Sun Dome, The Country Dancing Devils offer a new twist on old traditions. Every Tuesday night, students are taught classic line and swing dancing. Country dancing is back in ...

I have never been a big fan of meeting new people - not because I'm a sour, embittered Scrooge-like character, but because I always find myself feeling sick with anxiety that they'll end up hating me.

It was a little hard to hear him over the sound of “In the Mood,” but Mark Nelson had an explanation of why a big crowd is drawn to Concord every two months to dance to music that’s nearly a century ...

During the height of the swing dance revival in the late 1990s, night club patrons often dressed head-to-toe in 1950s vintage apparel. Women wore starched taffeta dresses with Peter Pan collars, ...

SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. IN HUMMELSTOWN. WHILE MOST PEOPLE ARE WINDING DOWN FROM A BUSY DAY, OTHERS ARE SWINGING INTO THE EVENING, MOVING TO THE RHYTHMIC SOUNDS OF JAZZ. SWING DANCING STARTED IN THE 1920S ...

Clarinetist Benny Goodman was in the midst of a faltering national tour with his young orchestra when he arrived in Oakland late in the Depression-ridden summer of 1935 for a brief run at McFadden's ...

Swing dance is an exciting form of dancing that came to the forefront during the peak of swing Jazz from the 1920's through the 1950's. There are many styles of swing dance with each one of them ...