![]() ![]() Partners may dance alone or together, with improvisation a central part of social dancing and many performance and competition pieces. Lindy Hop today is danced as a social dance, as a competitive dance, as a performance dance, and in classes, workshops, and camps. There was renewed interest in the dance in the 1980s from American, Swedish, and British dancers and the Lindy Hop is now represented by dancers and loosely affiliated grass-roots organizations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. In this step's open position, each dancer is generally connected hand-to-hand in its closed position, leads and follows are connected as though in an embrace on one side and holding hands on the other. In its development, the Lindy Hop combined elements of both partnered and solo dancing by using the movements and improvisation of African-American dances along with the formal eight-count structure of European partner dances – most clearly illustrated in the Lindy's basic step, the swingout. It is frequently described as a jazz dance and is a member of the swing dance family. Lindy is a fusion of many dances that preceded it or were popular during its development but is mainly based on jazz, tap, breakaway, and Charleston. It was very popular during the swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s. ![]() The Lindy Hop is an American dance which was born in the Black communities of Harlem, New York City, in 1928 and has evolved since then. ![]()
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