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Entertainment Calendar – Issue of Jan. 26, 2012

Pomerado Newspaper Group - Jan 25, 2012
Have you ever wanted to learn “cut a rug” or “jitterbug” like the swing dancers of the 1920s and 1930s? Jonathan and KC Wilt will be teaching a six-week Beginner's Jitterbug Swing Dance Class Mondays, 7 – 8 pm at The Church at Rancho Bernardo, ...

Debut novel tells a story of the Danish resistance in World War II

Napa Valley Register - Jan 26, 2012
She likes parties, the jitterbug and imagining herself dancing to Glen Miller's “Moonlight Serenade” in the arms of Luke Simonsen “the best looking boy in our class.” “We were all crazy for American dance music” she notes, along with “flirting and ...

Dirty Dancing: Dung Beetles Get Down to Walk the Line

Scientific American - Jan 18, 2012
By Ferris Jabr | January 18, 2012 JITTERBUG: Scientists had not investigated the dung beetle's dance until now. Image: Emily Baird, Lund University As a dung beetle rolls its planet of poop along the ground it periodically stops, climbs onto the ball ...

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Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America

by: Gena Caponi-Tabery
If the 1930s was the Swing Era, then the years from 1937 on might well be called the Jump Era. That summer Count Basie recorded Jumping at the Woodside, and suddenly jump tunes seemed to be everywhere. Along with the bouncy beat came a new dance step the high-flying aerials of the jitterbuggers and the basketball games that took place in the dance halls of African America became faster, higher, and flashier. Duke Ellington and a cast of hundreds put the buoyant spirit of the era on stage with their 1941 musical revue, Jump for Joy, a title that captured the momentum and direction of the new culture of exuberance.
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Keep Punchin Jitterbug Contest

Whitey's Lindy Hoppers more info @ dancehistory.org

 

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Jitterbug Dance by The American Academy of Music and Dance

Dance performance in Round Rock, Texas by the American Academy of Music and Dance

 

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Jerry Lewis Jitterbug

Jerry Lewis is a goof, but a pretty good dancer! It takes a bit of skill to balance goofy gestures, accuracy and rhythm simultaneously!

 

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Jitterbug Dancing - Swing Dancing

United States Rock N' Roll Dance Federation President, Jim Jackson and his partner Joanne Harrold, compete in the National Jitterbug Championships in Los Angeles.

 

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Jitterbug For The Total Beginner - Trailer

Get the DVD on www.MotionLifestyle.com This is the essential beginner swing dance DVD. Even if you have never set foot on a dance floor, or are just getting started with swing, in just one hour, national champions Daniel Newsome and Tiffiny Wine will have you dancing like a pro. In this lesson you will learn the basic steps for single time and triple time Jitterbug plus 7 easy moves that will have you rockin' on the dance floor.