https://padlet.com/mitchsam000/7nxx1hb1586d en-us 2016-10-12 19:12:39 UTC 2016-10-14 18:44:25 UTC hello@padlet.com wallialy001 https://padlet.com/mitchsam000/7nxx1hb1586d/wish/130582878 It was popular in the 1940's, these swing dance style originated two decades earlier in African American dance clubs in and around Harlem, New York.The Jitterbug dance term came to be associated with swing dancers who danced without any control or knowledge of proper dance moves, such uncontrolled dance movements because typically the dancers were drunk. In fact, the term Jitterbug comes from an early 20th-century slang term used to describe alcoholics who suffered fro the "jitters".The Jitterbug dance, was quite popular in the African American community, particularly in the Harlem nightclubs in New York City. The Jitterbug swing dance started around 1927 but the term jitterbug was not popular until 1934.]]> 2016-10-13 19:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchsam000/7nxx1hb1586d/wish/130582878 mitchsam000 https://padlet.com/mitchsam000/7nxx1hb1586d/wish/130850363 the communities began dancing to the contemporary Jazz and Swing music as it was evolving at the time, with Benny Goodman leading the action. Dancers soon incorporated tap and jazz steps into their dancing. In 1938, the Harvest Moon Ball included Lindy Hop and Jitterbug competition for the first time. The dance schools such as The New York Society of Teachers and Arthur Murray, did not formally begin documenting or teaching the Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Lindy, and Swing until the early 1940's. ]]> 2016-10-14 18:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchsam000/7nxx1hb1586d/wish/130850363 mitchsam000 https://padlet.com/mitchsam000/7nxx1hb1586d/wish/130852092 Jitterbug was danced to Country-Western music in Country Western bars, and popularized in the 1980's. From the mid 1940's to today, the Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Lindy, and Swing, were stripped down and distilled by the ballroom dance studio teachers in order to adapt what they were teaching to the less nimble-footed general public who paid for dance lessons.]]> 2016-10-14 18:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchsam000/7nxx1hb1586d/wish/130852092 mitchsam000 https://padlet.com/mitchsam000/7nxx1hb1586d/wish/130854721 2016-10-14 18:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchsam000/7nxx1hb1586d/wish/130854721