Savoy Ballroom Dancers

May 31st, 2006 by Vinnie

Savoy

Video (+/- 2 min) - example of how jazz revolutionized music and culture

Savoy Ballroom dancers Al and Leon and members of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers. (see Hellzapoppin 1941). Dedicated their lives to jazz dance, here in 1959 on the Playboy TV show they demo the Charleston in the timeline history of American Dance.

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