The Lindy Collection is a site dedicated to collecting Lindy Hop content from the many different sites across the web and helping people find related content. This dance has evolved and grown and it’s important to not just know what’s happening right now but also understand it’s history and evolution.
Resources
Lists of Aerials:
- The Home of Happy Feet Offline!!! In internet archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20240325175021/https://thehomeofhappyfeet.com/swing-aerial-safety-running-a-swing-team-part-10/
- Lindy Hop Moves
WNH Links: https://wednesdaynighthop.com/links
Instructional: WNH Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/wednesdaynighthop/videos 9:20 Special Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/920Special/videos
ILHC Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/ILHCVideos/videos Camp Hollywood: https://www.youtube.com/user/camphollywood/videos SONH: https://www.youtube.com/user/SwingOutNewHampshire/videos Herrang: https://www.youtube.com/user/herrangmedia/videos Houston Swing Dance Society, Houston Lindy Fest: https://www.youtube.com/user/HSDSswing/videos
Lots of high resolution vintage swing videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC07XsRsNjrogsOfwSpMGr2A
Other valuable sites:
- https://swungover.wordpress.com/
- https://lindyhopmoves.com/
Notes for future work
Learning ot backflip in 6 hours
Historical refererence suggestions
- Bal Swing from Bobby White: Bal-Swing was literally the swing that socal was doing, there’s also Lindy Hop mixed up in it and esp. Dean Collins: https://www.youtube.com/user/robertwhiteIII/videos
- Bobby White also has an official swungover channel with a bunch of historical vids: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp-he4ZEBUAfwQfcbueTHTA/videos
- Bill Green has a TON of excerpts of jazz and tap dances on film on youtube, https://www.youtube.com/user/10150924/videos or https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC07XsRsNjrogsOfwSpMGr2A
- The famous lindy hop and swing dance historian Peter Loggins has a youtube channel that I don’t know that he updates a bunch: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9dbOaah9cHZqKMYsaRof-Q
- Dance historian Forrest Outtman has a variety of clips from not just lindy hop but some pre-swing dances: https://www.youtube.com/user/ForrestOutman/videos
- Dancetime Publication must have gone out of business a long time ago but I remember they had some videos that were interesting to watch: https://www.youtube.com/user/DancetimePublication/videos
More videos to mine/index for aerials:
Diga Diga Do by 23 Skidoo! Great choreo and coordination of aerials within the team
ILHC 2013 Invitational Strictly
Lindy Focus XVIII: NYC Harvest Moon Hoppers Performance with Alternate view
ALHC competition videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmericanLindyChamps/videos
Carla and Steve early competitions: https://youtu.be/-TCRKK4LqAU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAYb-geQmlk
RHS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-3cMoPMb34
Camp Hollywood 2024
OLF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZarMsJhDzM4 Amateur OLF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USQlDaRYiKE
Open Lindy Teams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQZCvdya4nw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo5P5wxNfFI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1L70_0R5DM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqRYPPXDRgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zUTdsnDPRk
Camp Hollywood 2023
OLF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zUTdsnDPRk
CH 2022 OLF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjFEiIElpqU CH 2019 OLF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPVLZcOGt_M