American Lindy Hop Championships
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The American Lindy Hop Championships is a major[1] dance convention dedicated primarily to Lindy Hop.[2][3] In the 1990s Lindy Hop dancers competed in a separate category of West Coast Swing competitions, so Paulette Brockington in 1998 created an event "by Lindy Hoppers for Lindy Hoppers". The competition remained popular "well into the twenty-first century".[4]
The first competition happened on a four-day Halloween weekend in 1998 at the Playboy Resort (Vernon Township, New Jersey) and was produced, in part, with the aid of Boogie Dance Productions, a New York-based dance promoter. It was chronicled in the Year in Pictures edition of Life Magazine[5] as a first-of-its-kind event promoting Lindy Hop and its sister dances at the time - tap, jazz and blues dancing. It hosted an international audience of dancers who came to be part of the first event since the extended Swing Era to concentrate on Lindy Hop.[6][7] The main divisions included Classic, Strictly Lindy, Blues, and American Showcase.[8]
Emphasis is placed onto showcase categories.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Sfetcu 2014, p. 62.
- ^ "_American Lindy Hop Championships_". www.jitterbuzz.com. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ "American Lindy Hop Championships (ALHC) – NYC Swings". www.nycswings.net. 19 November 2021. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ Stevens & Stevens 2011, p. 181.
- ^ Time-Life Books 1999, p. 134.
- ^ Parks, Jessica (2019-10-31). "Swing state: Dance contest lindy hops into Grand Prospect Hall • Brooklyn Paper". www.brooklynpaper.com. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ "American Lindy Hop Championships 2023, Brooklyn, NY United States Oct 20 2023-Oct 22 2023". Danceplace. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ Gardner 1999.
Sources
[edit]- Sfetcu, N. (2014). Dance Music. Nicolae Sfetcu. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
- Stevens, T.; Stevens, E. (2011). Swing Dancing. The American Dance Floor. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-313-37518-7. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
- Time-Life Books (1999). The Year in Pictures, 1998. Time Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-883013-60-8. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
- Gardner, Cindy (Fall 1999). "Paulette's Goals: Create U.S. "Champs"" (PDF). Strutters Quarterly. 9 (4). TC SWING: 2.
- "1st Annual American Lindy Hop Championships". Strutters Quarterly (3). 1998. (cited from Stevens & Stevens, 2011)