What is Lindy Hop?
[[File:Lindy hop.jpg|thumb|right|219px|<center>Lindy Hop; 2006</center>]] '''Lindy Hop''' is an [[United States|American]] [[dance]]. It started in [[Harlem]], [[New York City]] in the 1920s and 1930s. It was originally associated with [[jazz music|jazz]] and [[tap dance]]. It was popular from the 1920s to the 1940s. The Lindy Hop was a mixture of many dances before it, like the Charleston, tap and breakaway dances. [[Frankie Manning]] helped develop the dance.<ref>{{cite web|title=Early Lindy Hop|publisher=SavoyStyle.com|url=http://www.savoystyle.com/shorty_george.html|access-date=May 26, 2016}}</ref> Lindy Hop today is danced as a social, competitive or performance dance. It is also sometimes called a [[street dance]]. ==References== <references/> [[Category:Dance types]] {{multistub|US|music}}