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The Board Thanks Mandi Gould
The Board of Directors of the Frankie Manning Foundation wishes to thank Mandi Gould for her many years of dedicated service. Mandi...
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Olivia Fortunato
May 30, 20201 min read
Video – Thriving in Crisis: The Chick Webb Orchestra and the Great Depression
Thank you to Professor Christi Jay Wells for this seminar on Saturday, May 30, 2020. ⭐For ESL, you can follow along with the script here....
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Olivia Fortunato
Apr 6, 20201 min read
Contemporary Swing Albums to Purchase During COVID-19
Daphna Harel is a friend and supporter of the Frankie Manning Foundation. She has put together a wonderful list of swing music albums to...
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Olivia Fortunato
Jan 7, 20201 min read
Hellzapoppin’ & A Day at the Races in Color!
Enjoy these newly released copies of Hellzapoppin’ and A Day at the Races, two of the greatest lindy hop performances of all time, now...
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Olivia Fortunato
Nov 25, 201911 min read
Situating the Frankie Manning Foundation within the Context of Community Archives
Guest post by Zoë Webb Click here to view the document Existing literature is full of many, many articles attempting to define...
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Olivia Fortunato
Nov 2, 20191 min read
Norma Miller’s Harlem
A wonderful initiative by Karen Campos McCormack “So just a month to go for Norma’s 100th. Last year when I was staying in NY I created...
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Olivia Fortunato
Jun 8, 20194 min read
The Story of Afro Swing in Mozambique
By Puxtana Manhiça Associacao Hodi Email: associacaohodi.cult@gmail.com We all watched. She started dancing and the choreography was...
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Olivia Fortunato
May 2, 20192 min read
Frankie, our teacher
I believe the music told Frankie what to teach in class. Frankie had often a song in mind that inspired him as he figured the material...
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Olivia Fortunato
Apr 28, 20191 min read
Frankie Manning and Camino de Swingtiago
There was a time, back in the 90’s, when regional and stylistic differences in Lindy hop were front and center, and even the cause of...
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Olivia Fortunato
Mar 25, 20192 min read
Swingin’ in the Light in Dark Times
— Chad Kubo My Dad loved Big Band music and one day, when I was young, he showed me his collection of 78 rpm records. I asked him why he...
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Olivia Fortunato
Nov 16, 20184 min read
Swingin’ Réunion – an event recap by Ewa “W” Burak
Reunion Island Oct 12-14, 2018 I have always been fascinated by the helicopter perspective. What in the moments seems to be random events...
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Olivia Fortunato
Sep 11, 20185 min read
Guest Post: Vote for Hellzapoppin’ for the National Film Preservation Board
The internet has plenty of posts related to relevant lindy hop dance movies. But, what if there was a program to preserve the original...
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Olivia Fortunato
Aug 28, 20189 min read
Swinging Archives and Libraries
Guest Post by Karen Campos McCormack In March 2018 I was lucky to spend a month in New York, in Harlem, researching the history of Lindy...
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Olivia Fortunato
Aug 18, 20181 min read
Frankie Manning on French Television, 1990 (Age 76)
I just want to make sure everyone gets to see this amazing video that Jean-Christophe Hep and Eric Esquivel found featuring Frankie...
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Olivia Fortunato
Aug 16, 20181 min read
Summer Fun in Houston
Lindy Hopper Andrea Cody has been running a summer dance camp for kids for the 12th year in a row. Presented at Soreal Dance Studio by...
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Olivia Fortunato
May 23, 20184 min read
Lindy Hop in Vietnam
Some of us remember the days of the Vietnam War: unending gloomy news, daily atrocities on our TV screens. It is heartening to realize...
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Olivia Fortunato
May 31, 20172 min read
How to Organize a Taxi Dance
Dance with your favorite instructors and raise money at the same time! Have you ever participated in a taxi dance? Taxi dances a great...
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Olivia Fortunato
May 22, 20171 min read
Workshop International Colombia México
Our team is made up by Luz Restrepo and Juan Diego Alzate as directors and teachers. Also, Joanna Agudelo and Fabia Abela as teachers. We...
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Olivia Fortunato
Aug 1, 20162 min read
World Lindy Hop Day Catalonia 2016 – A Frankie Month Recap
It’s no secret that Lindy Hop has become a worldwide phenomenon; no matter where you live, no matter how far you travel, you can find a...
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Olivia Fortunato
May 13, 20161 min read
Frankie Month in Brazil
We’ve received a wonderful update about the BeHoppers lindy hop group in Brazil: “Here in Brazil we (the BeHoppers) we decided to honor...
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