Taking Advantage of Lindy Hop Resurgence

The Lindy Hop dance might have originated far away in the northern hemisphere, almost a century ago in the Roaring Twenties, but today is one of the best times to learn Lindy Hop dancing and participate in the fun, vibrant culture that has sprung up around this exciting dance form. The Lindy Hop was too popular and too well received to die out even in the intervening years, and recently, it has sprung up from its slumbering roots to achieve an even more thorough flowering across the entire globe – including, in the Perth area, at the Swing Zing Dance School.

Swing remained popular to some extent even after the 1930s and 1940s, which were the era of its initial dominion over the dance scene. Dance manuals in the post-war years included both swing and Lindy Hop through the 1950s and 1960s, and it was only in the 1970s that the Lindy Hop disappeared for a while from the popular consciousness.

The dance form was revived first in the 1980s by select groups of dancers in various western nations, and then in the 1990s by a series of very popular movies that featured the dance. Lindy Hop history is that of one of the most successful swing dances, along with the Charleston and the Balboa dance, which has now even managed to colonize Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and other former Eastern Bloc countries since the fall of communism.

Today is splendid opportunity to take up the torch of Lindy Hop dancing and contribute to the vital, living community that has built up around this dance form. A friendly and accepting crowd, Lindy Hoppers are a loose association of people who gather together to enjoy the pleasure of the dance, a relaxed atmosphere where they can get to know each other better, and even such cultural rituals as a “Lindy exchange”, where Hoppers from one city travel to another, and vice versa, to try out their skills and exchange their latest ideas and techniques.

You can get in on the fun at Swing Zing Dance School, one of the finest Perth dance schools today.