Old time swing dancer video set to hip-hop
This video shows a pair of extraordinary gifted swing dancers from some black-and-white era set to modern hip-hop with a lot of eerily serendipitous synch-ups between the music and the video. The dancing is nothing short of amazing and set to the contemporary music, it's even nicer.
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(Thanks, Alice)
Update: AV sez, "If I am not mistaken (and I might be) that type of dance is called "Lindy Hop" and those two dancers are Al Minns and Leon James."
Update 2: A reader writes, "This one is Big Apple rather than Charleston/Lindy Hop."
Update 3: Laurence (and many others) sez, "The dance they are doing is, in fact, the Charleston."
Update 4:
Terry sez, "Contemporary swing dancers sometimes dance 20's Charleston and Balboa to hip hop. Those styles also go great with bhangra. If you're interested in swing dance footage, there's over 30GB of vintage and contemporary swing dancing clips at dans.poy.no."
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