POPULAR DANCE HALL: This is what the Blue Moon Dance Hall on East Barre Road looked like in the late 1930s and early 1940s, before two local residents decided to buy it, cut it in half and make two ...

British bandleader Alex Mendham, who is launching an Art Deco Dance Series in San Francisco this month, has long been ...

Step, step, triple-step, swing out, quick stop. Shimmy wiggle jump down no jive -- swing time. More than 400 Lindy Hoppers from around the world partnered up and boogied down in Seattle this weekend ...

A unique phenomenon that popped up in the 1920s and ’30s were the dance marathons. Couples ate and dozed as they shuffled around the dance floor for days on end in an effort to win cash prizes. Corpus ...

Dance historians who research such things credit American jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway for coining the term “jitterbug.” In 1934, he recorded a lively tune, “Jitter Bug,” that some credit ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting January 1st, 2009 - Buy Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression DVD ...

ROCKINGHAM — Guests are invited to celebrate Valentine's Week at the Bellows Falls Opera House with one of the great 1930s dance musicals, "Top Hat," featuring Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers at 7 p.m.

Program of a dance marathon held at the Green Palace Ballroom, Baltimore, Md., which began Aug. 8th, 1930, continued for 3181 hours, ending on Dec. 18, 1930. https ...

KEARNEY — Style, clothing, music, dance — all of these elements of social life tie the 1930s and 1940s together. “That time period was so closely defined by style,” said Steve Barth, executive ...

Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell is inspired by the work of the great English novelist and playwright Patrick Hamilton who created some of the most authentic fiction of his era, including Twenty ...