Important Dance Videos

Please visit our YouTube page for all of our videos. Don’t forget to also check out our Practice Videos page. Here are just a few favourites:

Important Historical Videos:

After Seben 1929
Shorty George Snowden and others
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di5eYAtf0f0&w=330&h=200]

Shorty George & Big Bea 1937
Humorous and great dancing
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sdk3mqVSRA&w=330&h=200]

A Day At The Races 1937
Dance feature performed by Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5T8XauYhlU&w=330&h=200]

Keep Punching 1939
The Big Apple performed by Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49ocW71YPfs&w=330&h=200]

Hellzapoppin’ 1941
Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers perform the greatest Lindy Hop ever captured on film!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0BHxhUnokU&w=330&h=200]

Hot Chocolate 1941
Duke Ellington with Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjLmgQQQlO0?list=PLF8DD3CEBC7CF579A]

Stormy Weather 1943
This clip features Tap, not Lindy Hop, but it’s incredible and important historically. Featuring the Nicholas Brothers and vocals by Cab Calloway.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8&w=330&h=200]

Groovie Movie 1944
A humorous look at the white dancers in Hollywood
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbaNYWkQYYA&w=330&h=200]

Swing Fever 1944
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B_q1XF8XV8]

Dean Collins & Jewel Mc Gowan – The Baby Boogie
A video from the mid-1940s in Hollywood, California
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wznL6MVp4ok?list=PLF958CB420BF2094E]

Killer Diller 1948
Frankie and the Congaroo dancers
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHY6BqrM9Z4&w=330&h=200]

The Spirit Moves 1950
Multiple segments including many members of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RZK-LyksG4&w=330&h=200]

The Spirit Moves 1950
Frankie Manning!
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2fGjHMByjI?list=PLF8DD3CEBC7CF579A]

Important Contemporary Lindy Hop Videos

(A work in progress as of May 3rd, 2013)

The Evolution of Lindy Hop
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLDpLRRzBeQ]

Can’t Top The Lindy Hop 1994
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqSyDtwFWQI]

Inspiration behind Toy Story 3’s Woody and Jessie dance short
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frhdqEyUbBg]

…And a few of our own favourite Bees’ Knees videos.

Bees’ Knees Dance 10 Year Anniversary dance & party
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUrVTFUWLJ0&w=330&h=200]

Mandi & Geoff’s engagement dance.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhthmCASJ9Q]

 

Social Dancing at the old studio.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L_loz-YlpE&w=330&h=200]

Mandi teaching a solo Rock n’ Roll lesson in Korea
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PBUI9rteIg&w=330&h=200]

Mandi teaching with Frankie Manning (2008)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IXBsVfYWXI&w=330&h=200]

More workshops with Frankie Manning and Mandi (2008)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjDau27bcgc&w=330&h=200]

Mandi dancing on the Great Wall of China
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPn6wcaWFP8&w=330&h=200]

Bees’ Knees Trio performing for Frankie Manning & Chazz Young (2006)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQAFH-yi1UU&w=330&h=200]

Mandi teaching with Chazz Young (2006)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL6ZdJDIyxo&w=330&h=200]