1 00: 00: 30,514 --> 00: 00: 33,725 The first time I saw Lindy Hop, I was 18 years old. 2 00: 00: 33,976 --> 00: 00: 37,020 I was a first year student University of Texas at Austin, 3 00: 00: 37,187 --> 00: 00: 39,982 and it was for Duke Ellington's "Rockin" in Rhythm. " 4 00: 00: 40,399 --> 00: 00: 42,151 There were four pairs on the scene, 5 00: 00: 42,317 --> 00: 00: 45,821 and they threw each other, and it was incredible 6 00: 00: 45,988 --> 00: 00: 48,988 and legend and magic. I saw it and thought ... 7 00: 00: 51,034 --> 00: 00: 53,662 "I will also do that." 8 00: 00: 54,621 --> 00: 00: 56,915 I dance swing, because I fell in love with it. 9 00: 00: 57,166 --> 00: 01: 00,627 Most importantly, the music, That makes me come again 10 00: 01: 01,044 --> 00: 01: 02,504 so I will always dance. 11 00: 01: 03,672 --> 00: 01: 07,176 Lindy Hop is so free and so fun. 12 00: 01: 07,509 --> 00: 01: 09,303 And everything is allowed. 13 00: 01: 11,305 --> 00: 01: 14,725 It's hard to explain the occupation to non-dancers. 14 00: 01: 14,892 --> 00: 01: 17,352 I really do not think they understand it. 15 00: 01: 18,145 --> 00: 01: 19,980 To dance with someone else 16 00: 01: 20,147 --> 00: 01: 22,733 and find the connection, it's like ... 17 00: 01: 22,900 --> 00: 01: 25,986 ... like having sex on amphetamine or something like that. 18 00: 01: 27,237 --> 00: 01: 31,033 Swing dance is the pursuit of happiness. 19 00: 01: 52,763 --> 00: 01: 55,098 EMELIE AND REBECKA 20 00: 02: 03,607 --> 00: 02: 05,359 STEVE AND CHANZIE 21 00: 02: 37,683 --> 00: 02: 40,352 With the way, Our community is organized right now, 22 00: 02: 40,519 --> 00: 02: 42,396 I think, that many feel isolated. 23 00: 02: 42,563 --> 00: 02: 45,857 They really live in silent desperation. 24 00: 02: 46,567 --> 00: 02: 50,362 They get up in the morning, They go to work, they come home, 25 00: 02: 50,529 --> 00: 02: 52,614 They are sitting alone at home and watching TV, 26 00: 02: 52,906 --> 00: 02: 56,827 Maybe they go shopping, go to bed, get up next morning, 27 00: 02: 57,035 --> 00: 02: 58,829 and then repeat and repeat. 28 00: 02: 59,705 --> 00: 03: 01,415 We become more isolated. 29 00: 03: 01,498 --> 00: 03: 03,208 I'm from the last generation 30 00: 03: 03,375 --> 00: 03: 05,627 grown up outdoors. We went out and drove on a bike. 31 00: 03: 05,794 --> 00: 03: 08,797 Meeted. You went to school. One had a quarrel. You played. 32 00: 03: 08,964 --> 00: 03: 10,465 Today you play computer games, 33 00: 03: 10,632 --> 00: 03: 13,343 it is isolation, and it's hard for people to understand. 34 00: 03: 13,552 --> 00: 03: 16,888 People can not figure out social interaction anymore. 35 00: 03: 18,807 --> 00: 03: 21,351 The world becomes a kind of spectator sport. 36 00: 03: 21,977 --> 00: 03: 23,895 When you went to the concert before, 37 00: 03: 24,062 --> 00: 03: 26,982 sang everyone with and felt the moment. 38 00: 03: 27,107 --> 00: 03: 29,401 Now you go to a concert, and people are standing like this ... 39 00: 03: 29,818 --> 00: 03: 30,986 but their phones. 40 00: 03: 31,737 --> 00: 03: 35,949 Everything is about Facebook, SMS, messages, e-mail, mobile phones. 41 00: 03: 36,158 --> 00: 03: 39,119 People would rather write a message than talking to each other. 42 00: 03: 40,746 --> 00: 03: 42,623 Thank goodness for dancing. 43 00: 03: 42,789 --> 00: 03: 46,835 Thank goodness for Lindy Hop, because it is the counterweight to this. 44 00: 03: 55,844 --> 00: 03: 57,929 I'm dancing. 45 00: 03: 59,890 --> 00: 04: 02,809 I've danced in ... 46 00: 04: 03,226 --> 00: 04: 06,021 ... 28, 29 years of my life. 47 00: 04: 08,148 --> 00: 04: 09,983 It's a purpose and a call. 48 00: 04: 15,822 --> 00: 04: 19,910 I remember the first time, I was paid to dance, 49 00: 04: 20,243 --> 00: 04: 22,871 and I thought ... "Really?" 50 00: 04: 23,038 --> 00: 04: 25,248 It was absolutely overwhelming, 51 00: 04: 25,415 --> 00: 04: 28,418 that you could get money for to do something you love. 52 00: 04: 38,470 --> 00: 04: 41,932 CATALINA, CALIFORNIA 53 00: 04: 43,016 --> 00: 04: 46,478 BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS 54 00: 04: 47,229 --> 00: 04: 50,607 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 55 00: 04: 50,899 --> 00: 04: 52,984 MUNICH GERMANY 56 00: 04: 57,072 --> 00: 04: 59,074 EDINBURG SCOTLAND 57 00: 04: 59,366 --> 00: 05: 00,784 AUSTIN, TEXAS 58 00: 05: 01,118 --> 00: 05: 02,869 ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA 59 00: 05: 03,036 --> 00: 05: 04,121 SWEDEN 60 00: 05: 04,329 --> 00: 05: 05,329 BOLOGNA ITALY 61 00: 05: 05,372 --> 00: 05: 06,373 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 62 00: 05: 07,374 --> 00: 05: 08,458 ST. PETERSBORG, RUSSIA 63 00: 05: 19,803 --> 00: 05: 22,097 Give a big hand to Michael and Evita! 64 00: 05: 27,853 --> 00: 05: 29,730 I do not do it for the sake of competition. 65 00: 05: 29,896 --> 00: 05: 32,274 I do not make it to win. I'm doing it to dance. 66 00: 05: 32,399 --> 00: 05: 35,569 First of all. Do this with your right foot ... 67 00: 05: 35,777 --> 00: 05: 36,862 Seven, eight. 68 00: 05: 37,028 --> 00: 05: 39,239 One two three four five. 69 00: 05: 39,406 --> 00: 05: 41,700 As a professional dancer full time 70 00: 05: 41,867 --> 00: 05: 46,079 I earn most of my money on teaching. 71 00: 05: 46,413 --> 00: 05: 48,957 You do not win much money for competitions. 72 00: 05: 49,124 --> 00: 05: 52,043 It's not like that at all ballroom scene. 73 00: 05: 53,587 --> 00: 05: 56,173 Five, six. Five, six, seven. 74 00: 05: 56,339 --> 00: 05: 59,342 And one, three, five, seven, eight. 75 00: 05: 59,509 --> 00: 06: 01,636 Two, four, five, seven. 76 00: 06: 01,803 --> 00: 06: 03,472 Up! Two three. 77 00: 06: 03,638 --> 00: 06: 06,016 It's not a big business. 78 00: 06: 06,183 --> 00: 06: 10,020 People who make it full time, is bad for the day and the road. 79 00: 06: 10,270 --> 00: 06: 11,938 Would they make big money, they would... 80 00: 06: 12,022 --> 00: 06: 13,262 BASIS OF MOBTOWN BALLROOM 81 00: 06: 13,315 --> 00: 06: 14,900 ... live off to make coffee. 82 00: 06: 15,859 --> 00: 06: 19,738 There is better money to earn internationally. 83 00: 06: 19,905 --> 00: 06: 21,114 GREECE 84 00: 06: 21,239 --> 00: 06: 22,574 I'm seeing something new. 85 00: 06: 22,822 --> 00: 06: 23,822 ITALY 86 00: 06: 23,909 --> 00: 06: 25,660 As a special guest from New York City ... 87 00: 06: 25,744 --> 00: 06: 26,745 FRANCE 88 00: 06: 26,828 --> 00: 06: 29,498 ... and I get more money for a weekends work. 89 00: 06: 29,664 --> 00: 06: 30,874 GERMANY 90 00: 06: 32,584 --> 00: 06: 35,754 Developing a family of dancers, That's part of the scene, 91 00: 06: 35,921 --> 00: 06: 37,798 and they become really close friends. 92 00: 06: 37,964 --> 00: 06: 39,382 You are looking forward to seeing them. 93 00: 06: 40,592 --> 00: 06: 42,052 Take it seriously 94 00: 06: 42,219 --> 00: 06: 46,181 and make it clear, that it's not a holiday with everything paid. 95 00: 06: 47,224 --> 00: 06: 51,353 I get flown in and paid to create ... 96 00: 06: 51,937 --> 00: 06: 55,524 an experience for the students, for the audience. 97 00: 06: 56,233 --> 00: 06: 58,026 Can not I, 98 00: 06: 58,652 --> 00: 07: 00,237 they hire someone else. 99 00: 07: 11,748 --> 00: 07: 15,418 I'm working for a construction company with a 24-hour emergency. 100 00: 07: 15,585 --> 00: 07: 17,254 I often crawl under houses 101 00: 07: 17,379 --> 00: 07: 20,204 and on ceilings, meet spiders and rats ... 102 00: 07: 20,304 --> 00: 07: 23,677 ... and sewage, sewage, the good cases. 103 00: 07: 23,760 --> 00: 07: 25,512 It is an exciting job. 104 00: 07: 25,679 --> 00: 07: 27,097 Every day is different. 105 00: 07: 28,473 --> 00: 07: 30,517 I'm constantly on duty 106 00: 07: 30,892 --> 00: 07: 33,019 so I dance when I can. 107 00: 07: 33,144 --> 00: 07: 35,772 Sometimes I have to go in the middle of a ball. 108 00: 07: 36,982 --> 00: 07: 38,900 Chanzie and I, my dance partner, 109 00: 07: 39,067 --> 00: 07: 42,028 Try to see when we can, but she works too. 110 00: 07: 43,905 --> 00: 07: 46,199 My full name is Chandrae Roettig. 111 00: 07: 46,901 --> 00: 07: 49,327 It has been a disaster whole life. 112 00: 07: 58,670 --> 00: 08: 01,381 Steve is a beard to work with, and we always laugh. 113 00: 08: 01,506 --> 00: 08: 02,507 Come with a quote. 114 00: 08: 02,591 --> 00: 08: 04,009 Does she have it all? 115 00: 08: 04,175 --> 00: 08: 05,510 I could have been with. 116 00: 08: 05,677 --> 00: 08: 06,845 I could have been somebody. 117 00: 08: 07,178 --> 00: 08: 09,431 Your son, idiot as he is, 118 00: 08: 09,848 --> 00: 08: 12,225 left his ID in a dead man's hands. 119 00: 08: 12,559 --> 00: 08: 13,810 Then I have no more. 120 00: 08: 15,312 --> 00: 08: 17,063 Steve and I are not a couple 121 00: 08: 17,939 --> 00: 08: 19,566 and that's nice because ... 122 00: 08: 19,858 --> 00: 08: 21,985 ... the second aspect never comes in the way. 123 00: 08: 22,986 --> 00: 08: 25,655 I had always wanted to move to L.A. because of dance. 124 00: 08: 26,563 --> 00: 08: 28,366 They called it Hollywood style. 125 00: 08: 28,491 --> 00: 08: 30,118 It was a more fluid dance. 126 00: 08: 30,285 --> 00: 08: 32,078 Cool. Everybody went in vintage clothes. 127 00: 08: 32,245 --> 00: 08: 34,122 I saw the Camp Hollywood bands 128 00: 08: 34,289 --> 00: 08: 36,124 and thought, "That's where I want to be". 129 00: 08: 41,046 --> 00: 08: 43,548 Camp Hollywood is a huge event. 130 00: 08: 44,299 --> 00: 08: 46,593 I and many others learned the dance 131 00: 08: 46,760 --> 00: 08: 48,887 by seeing bands from the competition. 132 00: 08: 49,054 --> 00: 08: 51,431 And reach yourself is in competition ... 133 00: 08: 51,848 --> 00: 08: 54,184 Yes, we are nervous. 134 00: 08: 58,480 --> 00: 09: 00,357 Most people do not know ... 135 00: 09: 00,523 --> 00: 09: 02,168 ... to swing competitions does not have choreography. 136 00: 09: 02,192 --> 00: 09: 03,461 FELLOW BY FRANKIE MANNING FOUNDATION 137 00: 09: 03,485 --> 00: 09: 04,486 Everything is improvised. 138 00: 09: 05,779 --> 00: 09: 07,113 You can practice with your partner 139 00: 09: 07,280 --> 00: 09: 09,532 long before the competition, but when standing there, 140 00: 09: 09,699 --> 00: 09: 11,826 do not you know what music, they play 141 00: 09: 11,993 --> 00: 09: 13,578 How fast it will be. 142 00: 09: 13,745 --> 00: 09: 15,789 You also do not know, when you are called up. 143 00: 09: 15,956 --> 00: 09: 17,916 Do you make some fat in the competition, 144 00: 09: 18,083 --> 00: 09: 19,793 want all other Lindy hopers in the world 145 00: 09: 19,960 --> 00: 09: 21,336 See it on YouTube, 146 00: 09: 21,503 --> 00: 09: 23,505 and they like it 147 00: 09: 23,672 --> 00: 09: 24,923 do they invite you to their city, 148 00: 09: 25,090 --> 00: 09: 26,883 you get a job that teaches, 149 00: 09: 27,050 --> 00: 09: 30,261 and such are Lindy Hop instructors their money. 150 00: 09: 30,887 --> 00: 09: 33,139 We are a new partner, so ... 151 00: 09: 33,974 --> 00: 09: 36,101 We have been together for half a year. 152 00: 09: 36,267 --> 00: 09: 39,020 Of course, we will represent ourselves as good as we can. 153 00: 09: 39,104 --> 00: 09: 40,981 We hope it can lead to teaching. 154 00: 09: 41,940 --> 00: 09: 44,609 We will see where it can lead us. 155 00: 09: 58,957 --> 00: 10: 00,208 INTERNATIONAL INSTRUCTORS 156 00: 10: 00,333 --> 00: 10: 02,419 Here is the story of the swing bubble, we live in. 157 00: 10: 02,585 --> 00: 10: 04,379 Here is the swing bubble. Yes, have it. 158 00: 10: 04,546 --> 00: 10: 06,339 Inside the swing bubble Do we have Lindy Hop, 159 00: 10: 06,548 --> 00: 10: 08,299 we have East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, 160 00: 10: 08,383 --> 00: 10: 09,551 Collegiate Shog ... 161 00: 10: 09,718 --> 00: 10: 11,261 - Shag! - Carolina Shag, 162 00: 10: 11,428 --> 00: 10: 13,430 Balboa, St. Louis Shag ... 163 00: 10: 13,596 --> 00: 10: 15,849 - D.C. Hand Dancing. - D.C. Hand Dancing. 164 00: 10: 15,974 --> 00: 10: 18,601 Here is Cajun Zydeco Dancing. 165 00: 10: 18,768 --> 00: 10: 21,521 Here is Boogie-Woogie. Here is the Rock 'n' Roll. 166 00: 10: 21,688 --> 00: 10: 24,232 Here's Bug, Swedish Bug, and here's the double bug, 167 00: 10: 24,399 --> 00: 10: 26,401 and then it only goes from there. 168 00: 10: 26,568 --> 00: 10: 27,902 They are all part 169 00: 10: 27,986 --> 00: 10: 30,488 of the swing-jazz genre in dance. 170 00: 10: 30,655 --> 00: 10: 33,420 Lindy Hop is it original American swing dance. 171 00: 10: 33,570 --> 00: 10: 36,007 From that dance there has grown a lot of branches, 172 00: 10: 36,157 --> 00: 10: 38,955 forming a wonderful, beautiful, wonderful tree. 173 00: 10: 39,205 --> 00: 10: 41,666 And many of the steps you see in hip hop 174 00: 10: 41,875 --> 00: 10: 44,919 and other dance today, originated from the same place. 175 00: 10: 45,045 --> 00: 10: 46,129 INSTRUCTOR 176 00: 10: 46,254 --> 00: 10: 48,715 When you Lindy Hopper, then you swear, honey 177 00: 10: 49,424 --> 00: 10: 51,009 So you really swear. 178 00: 10: 51,092 --> 00: 10: 52,510 SWING PLAYFUL 179 00: 10: 55,597 --> 00: 10: 58,183 Swing-out is Lindy Hops Holy Grail. 180 00: 10: 58,391 --> 00: 11: 01,227 It's the one step, one can not get enough of it. 181 00: 11: 04,022 --> 00: 11: 06,900 You have a sync and a stretch, 182 00: 11: 07,067 --> 00: 11: 09,277 and a feature of energy, whipping around 183 00: 11: 09,444 --> 00: 11: 11,780 and shoots your partner away from you. 184 00: 11: 12,363 --> 00: 11: 13,615 She flies so fast, 185 00: 11: 13,782 --> 00: 11: 15,325 you think she does not stop, 186 00: 11: 15,492 --> 00: 11: 17,869 but there is a lifeline in, that the driver is stuck 187 00: 11: 18,203 --> 00: 11: 21,206 and drags it back into its arms 188 00: 11: 21,372 --> 00: 11: 23,166 and this will continue over and over. 189 00: 11: 23,541 --> 00: 11: 25,001 Every dance has its own mood. 190 00: 11: 25,085 --> 00: 11: 26,628 PROFESSOR IN MATEMATICS 191 00: 11: 26,711 --> 00: 11: 29,172 Tango is very dramatic. 192 00: 11: 29,255 --> 00: 11: 32,425 West Coast Swing may be called, and the salsa is sexy. 193 00: 11: 32,592 --> 00: 11: 35,970 But Lindy Hop is silly. It's ridiculous. 194 00: 11: 40,767 --> 00: 11: 43,770 Have you seen this kind of stage in sports dance? 195 00: 11: 45,355 --> 00: 11: 47,482 In sports dances there are rules. 196 00: 11: 47,649 --> 00: 11: 49,400 Your hand should be here. 197 00: 11: 49,567 --> 00: 11: 51,152 Your head should be here. 198 00: 11: 51,444 --> 00: 11: 52,862 Swing can not have rules. 199 00: 11: 52,987 --> 00: 11: 54,322 JAZZ DANCE & SWINGLING 200 00: 11: 54,489 --> 00: 11: 56,658 There is no clean, perfect, Technical Position 201 00: 11: 56,825 --> 00: 11: 58,203 in Lindy Hop a lot of time, 202 00: 11: 58,298 --> 00: 12: 00,829 so you're free to get lost 203 00: 12: 00,995 --> 00: 12: 03,414 and swing with your arms, not? 204 00: 12: 03,581 --> 00: 12: 05,291 Spark with the foot! It's ... 205 00: 12: 05,458 --> 00: 12: 08,378 liberating, right? 206 00: 12: 08,545 --> 00: 12: 12,757 And you can not make many mistakes, 207 00: 12: 13,007 --> 00: 12: 15,051 because there is no error at all. 208 00: 12: 22,142 --> 00: 12: 23,476 - Ready? - Yes. 209 00: 12: 26,521 --> 00: 12: 27,939 SØSTRENE DECAVITA 210 00: 12: 28,064 --> 00: 12: 29,524 Then it was... 211 00: 12: 29,691 --> 00: 12: 30,942 It was... 212 00: 12: 31,359 --> 00: 12: 34,696 It was the first throw, invented. 213 00: 12: 35,238 --> 00: 12: 38,408 Swing dance is traditional 214 00: 12: 38,825 --> 00: 12: 40,660 something for male / female couples, 215 00: 12: 40,827 --> 00: 12: 44,706 - and only a few women venture into it - Yes. 216 00: 12: 44,789 --> 00: 12: 46,166 EMELIE AND REBECKA 217 00: 12: 46,291 --> 00: 12: 47,709 ... without a man. 218 00: 13: 19,115 --> 00: 13: 21,034 It's also political for me. 219 00: 13: 21,492 --> 00: 13: 26,664 You must be able to do things as partners, 220 00: 13: 26,748 --> 00: 13: 28,958 even if you are not lovers. 221 00: 13: 29,125 --> 00: 13: 31,836 Suffering for many men 222 00: 13: 32,003 --> 00: 13: 33,671 through history, you know 223 00: 13: 33,838 --> 00: 13: 37,258 famous male show business partner. 224 00: 13: 48,770 --> 00: 13: 51,481 Women have to be as much better as couples. 225 00: 13: 52,357 --> 00: 13: 57,028 Competition dancers do not see us as a threat, 226 00: 13: 57,153 --> 00: 14: 00,615 until we stand in front of them. 227 00: 14: 00,782 --> 00: 14: 02,116 Our first song ... 228 00: 14: 02,283 --> 00: 14: 05,662 It's nice to play harmless. 229 00: 14: 06,412 --> 00: 14: 08,039 It's a Swedish thing, 230 00: 14: 08,206 --> 00: 14: 09,874 It's dumbfounded. 231 00: 14: 10,041 --> 00: 14: 11,041 It is very Swedish. 232 00: 14: 17,382 --> 00: 14: 19,759 Swing dance began late in the 1920s and the beginning of the 30's. 233 00: 14: 19,842 --> 00: 14: 21,344 DANCE historian 234 00: 14: 21,511 --> 00: 14: 25,306 At that time the country was in the largest economic depression so far. 235 00: 14: 31,396 --> 00: 14: 34,190 People were so ... denied. 236 00: 14: 34,357 --> 00: 14: 35,984 They've lost everything 237 00: 14: 36,150 --> 00: 14: 38,778 and the music and dance and the movement, 238 00: 14: 38,945 --> 00: 14: 42,407 Its purpose was to lift courage. 239 00: 14: 42,573 --> 00: 14: 45,952 So you could laugh and smile, at least just a moment. 240 00: 14: 57,880 --> 00: 15: 01,009 It was a bright spot in a difficult time. 241 00: 15: 01,092 --> 00: 15: 02,302 SWING PLAYFUL 242 00: 15: 02,385 --> 00: 15: 04,554 They knocked and spared up, 243 00: 15: 04,762 --> 00: 15: 06,389 spanked and saved ... 244 00: 15: 06,514 --> 00: 15: 07,640 MARINE SOLDIER 245 00: 15: 07,765 --> 00: 15: 11,519 so they could go out and dance once or twice a week. 246 00: 15: 13,271 --> 00: 15: 15,315 Dance occurred in the black community. 247 00: 15: 15,481 --> 00: 15: 17,692 It started as a street dance in Harlem. 248 00: 15: 18,276 --> 00: 15: 21,821 African Americans danced on sidewalks and streets, 249 00: 15: 21,946 --> 00: 15: 23,906 and brought the dance into the ballrooms. 250 00: 15: 24,365 --> 00: 15: 26,200 It's our music. 251 00: 15: 26,868 --> 00: 15: 28,911 Louis Armstrong gave us the sound ... 252 00: 15: 30,371 --> 00: 15: 31,914 Basie gave us the rhythm, 253 00: 15: 32,248 --> 00: 15: 33,708 and Duke Ellington said 254 00: 15: 33,875 --> 00: 15: 36,419 "It does not mean a thing if it is not got that swing. " 255 00: 15: 36,711 --> 00: 15: 39,172 How can you listen to it? without moving the foot? 256 00: 15: 39,380 --> 00: 15: 41,007 SWING PLAYFUL 257 00: 15: 42,300 --> 00: 15: 44,385 That was the essence of the dance 258 00: 15: 44,510 --> 00: 15: 47,764 the pursuit of happiness, 259 00: 15: 47,930 --> 00: 15: 52,310 to strive for joy after all else, 260 00: 15: 52,727 --> 00: 15: 55,313 who inspired the whole world. 261 00: 15: 57,607 --> 00: 16: 00,193 Lindy Hop was dancing in many sales in Harlem, 262 00: 16: 00,360 --> 00: 16: 02,820 but Savoy Ballroom was the first, that left 263 00: 16: 02,987 --> 00: 16: 06,407 black and white dance together socially. 264 00: 16: 06,574 --> 00: 16: 08,284 It was a time, 265 00: 16: 08,409 --> 00: 16: 11,120 where Harlem was the white playground. 266 00: 16: 11,496 --> 00: 16: 13,247 Cotton Club was up the street. 267 00: 16: 13,706 --> 00: 16: 14,791 White went. 268 00: 16: 14,957 --> 00: 16: 16,250 Black were dancing there. 269 00: 16: 16,417 --> 00: 16: 17,960 They did not have to enter the door. 270 00: 16: 18,753 --> 00: 16: 21,798 And then this hall opened in the middle of Harlem, 271 00: 16: 22,757 --> 00: 16: 25,843 and the white came there 272 00: 16: 26,010 --> 00: 16: 29,097 but the blacks entered the same door. 273 00: 16: 29,263 --> 00: 16: 31,599 There was no other club in Harlem. 274 00: 16: 37,897 --> 00: 16: 39,774 The first generation of Lindy Hoppers 275 00: 16: 39,941 --> 00: 16: 42,235 started here, but then it was refined 276 00: 16: 42,360 --> 00: 16: 44,880 and came to Hollywood via Norma Miller and Frankie Manning Group ... 277 00: 16: 44,904 --> 00: 16: 45,964 HARLEM SWING DANCE COMPANY 278 00: 16: 45,988 --> 00: 16: 47,031 Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. 279 00: 16: 52,995 --> 00: 16: 54,930 It knocked on my door. 280 00: 16: 56,290 --> 00: 16: 57,375 There stood Whitey. 281 00: 16: 57,542 --> 00: 17: 00,503 "He said," I would like to have, that you come and dance for us. 282 00: 17: 00,628 --> 00: 17: 03,464 Rather, you dance for us than against us. " 283 00: 17: 07,885 --> 00: 17: 10,930 Frankie Manning's influence goes so far in Lindy Hop ... 284 00: 17: 11,013 --> 00: 17: 12,932 ... so far in Lindy Hop, 285 00: 17: 13,099 --> 00: 17: 16,269 that you can not dance Lindy Hop without knowing him. 286 00: 17: 17,645 --> 00: 17: 20,606 Frankie was one of the choreographers in the group, 287 00: 17: 20,773 --> 00: 17: 23,860 and he invented the first roll. 288 00: 17: 26,863 --> 00: 17: 28,364 I just danced. 289 00: 17: 30,700 --> 00: 17: 32,452 Swing dance was fashionable 290 00: 17: 32,577 --> 00: 17: 35,204 and then disappeared for several decades. 291 00: 17: 35,371 --> 00: 17: 36,497 BACKGROUND, CAMP HOLLYWOOD 292 00: 17: 36,664 --> 00: 17: 38,332 Swing dance died because, 293 00: 17: 38,416 --> 00: 17: 39,750 People stopped coming. 294 00: 17: 40,084 --> 00: 17: 40,877 JAPAN CONVERSES 295 00: 17: 40,960 --> 00: 17: 42,128 The soldiers came home. 296 00: 17: 42,211 --> 00: 17: 44,505 Everyone wanted to start families and did not go to town. 297 00: 17: 44,672 --> 00: 17: 47,675 I left Lindy Hop. Done. 298 00: 17: 47,842 --> 00: 17: 51,053 I left Savoy. There was no work! 299 00: 17: 51,137 --> 00: 17: 52,180 POSTAL SERVICES 300 00: 17: 52,346 --> 00: 17: 53,586 Frankie got work by mail, 301 00: 17: 53,681 --> 00: 17: 55,516 and he felt, that people should be responsible 302 00: 17: 55,600 --> 00: 17: 57,226 and serve for the livelihood. 303 00: 17: 57,310 --> 00: 17: 58,390 FRANKIES LOVE FOR MANY YEARS 304 00: 17: 58,478 --> 00: 18: 00,021 I went to it with the idea that, 305 00: 18: 00,104 --> 00: 18: 03,149 that I should only be there for a while. 306 00: 18: 03,858 --> 00: 18: 05,693 They knew, I had been in show business, 307 00: 18: 05,860 --> 00: 18: 07,695 but I did not elaborate on it. 308 00: 18: 07,778 --> 00: 18: 10,114 I did not say "I've done this and hint." 309 00: 18: 10,281 --> 00: 18: 14,327 There will be a long period of time total irrelevance. 310 00: 18: 15,995 --> 00: 18: 18,331 We speak 30-40 years. 311 00: 18: 19,040 --> 00: 18: 20,541 You had not imagined, 312 00: 18: 20,625 --> 00: 18: 22,752 to swing and Lindy Hop would make comeback? 313 00: 18: 22,835 --> 00: 18: 23,836 No. 314 00: 19: 01,082 --> 00: 19: 04,085 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 315 00: 19: 04,669 --> 00: 19: 07,672 I'm leading Camp Hollywood 316 00: 19: 07,755 --> 00: 19: 09,275 and the National Jitterbug Championship, 317 00: 19: 09,340 --> 00: 19: 13,636 which is a kind of weekend congress for swing dancers. 318 00: 19: 13,803 --> 00: 19: 15,888 I've been doing since 1998. 319 00: 19: 17,223 --> 00: 19: 18,891 It took off, and at first 320 00: 19: 19,058 --> 00: 19: 21,978 I did not think so as an annual event. 321 00: 19: 22,270 --> 00: 19: 26,399 But it quickly became clear, that it should be. 322 00: 19: 26,566 --> 00: 19: 27,567 One two. 323 00: 19: 27,650 --> 00: 19: 28,985 One two three four. 324 00: 19: 36,742 --> 00: 19: 39,579 We say to people, "We are dancing dance." 325 00: 19: 39,745 --> 00: 19: 41,247 Afterwards they ask, "did you win?" 326 00: 19: 41,372 --> 00: 19: 44,417 Then they ask, "What else do you do for a dance week?" 327 00: 19: 44,917 --> 00: 19: 46,627 Lessons in daytime, 328 00: 19: 46,794 --> 00: 19: 48,462 performances by the instructors, 329 00: 19: 48,629 --> 00: 19: 51,048 Dance in the evenings, and then it's a good option 330 00: 19: 51,215 --> 00: 19: 55,094 to meet a lot of new people to dance with. 331 00: 19: 55,761 --> 00: 19: 57,388 In short, we collect 1,800 332 00: 19: 57,597 --> 00: 19: 59,765 of our closest friends in a hotel room. 333 00: 19: 59,932 --> 00: 20: 01,642 We all dance the whole weekend, 334 00: 20: 01,809 --> 00: 20: 03,936 and some win a few 335 00: 20: 04,103 --> 00: 20: 06,230 ties or trophies or something like that. 336 00: 20: 06,397 --> 00: 20: 10,359 It's all about to meet on the dance floor. 337 00: 20: 13,863 --> 00: 20: 15,031 The effort in the competition 338 00: 20: 15,114 --> 00: 20: 15,990 INTERNATIONAL INSTRUCTOR 339 00: 20: 16,115 --> 00: 20: 17,325 is your soul. 340 00: 20: 18,200 --> 00: 20: 20,411 If you win on the dance floor, 341 00: 20: 20,578 --> 00: 20: 22,622 will your soul live forever. 342 00: 20: 23,998 --> 00: 20: 25,791 If you lose on the dance floor, 343 00: 20: 25,958 --> 00: 20: 28,461 have you lost life and is seen as a failure. 344 00: 20: 32,298 --> 00: 20: 35,134 And now we are going to greet the finalists, 345 00: 20: 35,301 --> 00: 20: 39,369 give a hand Steven and Chandrae! 346 00: 20: 40,848 --> 00: 20: 44,894 LINDY-COMPETITION 347 00: 20: 45,269 --> 00: 20: 48,439 THE NATIONAL JITTERBUG MESTERSHIP 348 00: 22: 31,041 --> 00: 22: 32,710 After we had been on the second time, 349 00: 22: 32,877 --> 00: 22: 34,336 I said, "we just won." 350 00: 22: 34,420 --> 00: 22: 36,060 He turned and said it. I thought... 351 00: 22: 36,172 --> 00: 22: 37,757 Yes, "we won." 352 00: 22: 37,923 --> 00: 22: 41,218 One of the judges looked at me, when we stood in line, 353 00: 22: 41,343 --> 00: 22: 43,387 and did this here ... 354 00: 22: 45,723 --> 00: 22: 49,685 We got a lot of praise from friends and heroes 355 00: 22: 49,852 --> 00: 22: 52,146 and people we really look forward to. 356 00: 22: 55,274 --> 00: 22: 56,609 That was incredible. 357 00: 22: 57,610 --> 00: 22: 58,736 Yes. 358 00: 23: 07,870 --> 00: 23: 11,290 We have decided Soon to say our jobs 359 00: 23: 11,957 --> 00: 23: 14,043 and bet on the dance ... 360 00: 23: 14,210 --> 00: 23: 15,669 Full time with each other 361 00: 23: 15,836 --> 00: 23: 20,132 and hold lessons every week, so we can pay the bills. 362 00: 23: 21,217 --> 00: 23: 23,636 Join us for more competitions 363 00: 23: 23,803 --> 00: 23: 25,805 and can we show you more 364 00: 23: 25,971 --> 00: 23: 27,807 Hopefully, we will get more students. 365 00: 23: 38,526 --> 00: 23: 40,611 Zoe, come here. Yes! 366 00: 23: 40,778 --> 00: 23: 43,322 I started dancing swing ... 367 00: 23: 44,782 --> 00: 23: 46,909 ... after my first tour of Iraq. 368 00: 23: 49,411 --> 00: 23: 52,790 I joined the Navy Corps in 2001. 369 00: 23: 53,249 --> 00: 23: 54,416 When I got home, 370 00: 23: 54,583 --> 00: 23: 57,962 I could not relate 371 00: 23: 58,128 --> 00: 24: 00,422 to people from my own country more. 372 00: 24: 00,840 --> 00: 24: 03,384 I felt alienated and isolated. 373 00: 24: 05,094 --> 00: 24: 07,972 I thought of all of them, did not come back. 374 00: 24: 08,180 --> 00: 24: 10,766 I came back and was close to suicide. 375 00: 24: 12,726 --> 00: 24: 16,230 Dance was a great experience for me. 376 00: 24: 16,772 --> 00: 24: 19,483 Seeing people make all the crazy steps 377 00: 24: 19,775 --> 00: 24: 22,027 the throws and divisions. 378 00: 24: 22,194 --> 00: 24: 24,864 They danced to old music 379 00: 24: 25,030 --> 00: 24: 26,991 and went in vintage clothes. 380 00: 24: 27,491 --> 00: 24: 29,076 It blamed me 381 00: 24: 29,577 --> 00: 24: 31,120 and I said to myself 382 00: 24: 31,287 --> 00: 24: 33,831 "If it takes me the rest of my life, 383 00: 24: 33,998 --> 00: 24: 36,292 I will learn how to do it. " 384 00: 24: 37,585 --> 00: 24: 39,211 It gave me reason to live. 385 00: 24: 42,548 --> 00: 24: 44,925 One of the most amazing experiences 386 00: 24: 45,092 --> 00: 24: 46,927 last year's Camp Hollywood. 387 00: 24: 49,555 --> 00: 24: 51,307 We changed partners, 388 00: 24: 51,765 --> 00: 24: 55,644 and I ended up with Mo, one of my favorite dancers in the world. 389 00: 24: 56,979 --> 00: 24: 59,690 And I stood beside Mo, 390 00: 24: 59,857 --> 00: 25: 01,525 The band started playing, 391 00: 25: 01,692 --> 00: 25: 05,029 I thought, "That's why I managed 392 00: 25: 05,279 --> 00: 25: 06,906 due to moments like this. " 393 00: 25: 10,701 --> 00: 25: 13,871 Everyone has had some dark moments. 394 00: 25: 14,038 --> 00: 25: 16,290 Everyone has been somewhere 395 00: 25: 16,457 --> 00: 25: 18,876 where they really find a reason to continue. 396 00: 25: 19,126 --> 00: 25: 21,295 For me, it was the moment 397 00: 25: 21,462 --> 00: 25: 22,630 it was... 398 00: 25: 23,172 --> 00: 25: 25,132 ... it was dance. It was Lindy Hop. 399 00: 25: 38,020 --> 00: 25: 40,940 In 1983 there were four places 400 00: 25: 41,106 --> 00: 25: 44,151 That really caught my eyes on Lindy Hop. 401 00: 25: 44,318 --> 00: 25: 46,236 It was Los Angeles, New York, 402 00: 25: 46,403 --> 00: 25: 48,238 London and Sweden. 403 00: 25: 48,781 --> 00: 25: 50,449 Then the film companies began 404 00: 25: 50,741 --> 00: 25: 54,536 to reissue their old movie on video tape. 405 00: 25: 56,080 --> 00: 25: 58,374 People caught these movies 406 00: 25: 58,540 --> 00: 26: 01,752 and see them over and over again. 407 00: 26: 01,919 --> 00: 26: 03,754 And they asked, "who are they people?" 408 00: 26: 03,921 --> 00: 26: 06,507 I was ready for retirement. 409 00: 26: 06,674 --> 00: 26: 09,635 I received a call from Erin Stevens. 410 00: 26: 09,802 --> 00: 26: 11,929 She asked the phone, 411 00: 26: 12,096 --> 00: 26: 14,807 "Are you the dancer Frankie Manning?" 412 00: 26: 14,974 --> 00: 26: 17,643 I said, "No, I'm the postman Frankie Manning." 413 00: 26: 18,894 --> 00: 26: 21,480 74 YEARS OLD 414 00: 26: 21,563 --> 00: 26: 24,858 I always say, Other teachers taught me steps, 415 00: 26: 25,025 --> 00: 26: 27,444 but Frankie Manning taught me the heart and soul of the dance. 416 00: 26: 27,528 --> 00: 26: 28,654 INSTRUCTOR 417 00: 26: 30,864 --> 00: 26: 32,700 The Swedes asked, who would come. 418 00: 26: 32,866 --> 00: 26: 35,703 They asked me first, but when I saw them dancing, 419 00: 26: 35,869 --> 00: 26: 37,121 I did not force it. 420 00: 26: 37,246 --> 00: 26: 38,956 I said no. 421 00: 26: 39,206 --> 00: 26: 41,250 But Frankie would like to. 422 00: 26: 41,417 --> 00: 26: 42,960 Frankie is generous. 423 00: 26: 43,127 --> 00: 26: 45,271 I decided to go to New York again, meet frankie 424 00: 26: 45,295 --> 00: 26: 46,463 SWEDEN 425 00: 26: 46,547 --> 00: 26: 48,632 ... and then Frankie came to Sweden in '87. 426 00: 26: 48,716 --> 00: 26: 49,716 SWEDEN 427 00: 26: 49,758 --> 00: 26: 50,758 ITALY 428 00: 26: 50,801 --> 00: 26: 52,761 I love dancers, but not beginners. 429 00: 26: 52,928 --> 00: 26: 55,097 Learn all. And when you come, 430 00: 26: 55,639 --> 00: 26: 57,683 and I say, "show me eight strokes," 431 00: 26: 57,850 --> 00: 26: 59,184 Then you know what I am talking about. 432 00: 27: 01,023 --> 00: 27: 04,398 I would not learn a crab crab to go with crutches. 433 00: 27: 08,318 --> 00: 27: 10,738 The dance dance scene already grew 434 00: 27: 10,904 --> 00: 27: 13,574 and suddenly there was the perfect trio. 435 00: 27: 13,741 --> 00: 27: 16,618 In the mid-90s came the movie Swing Kids ... 436 00: 27: 21,665 --> 00: 27: 22,665 Swingers ... 437 00: 27: 27,129 --> 00: 27: 28,922 ... and the advertising of Gap. 438 00: 27: 33,093 --> 00: 27: 36,221 And it got the swing dance to explode. 439 00: 27: 38,182 --> 00: 27: 41,810 The swing camps came around the globe. 440 00: 27: 41,977 --> 00: 27: 44,063 And the dancers of the camps said 441 00: 27: 44,229 --> 00: 27: 46,732 "Let's hire Frankie to visit our community. " 442 00: 27: 46,815 --> 00: 27: 47,983 INSTRUCTOR 443 00: 27: 48,108 --> 00: 27: 50,486 I asked, "Frankie, how many weekends 444 00: 27: 50,569 --> 00: 27: 54,281 Do you travel away from New York? to teach? " 445 00: 27: 54,490 --> 00: 27: 56,200 He said, "This year I think 446 00: 27: 56,366 --> 00: 27: 58,619 that there are 42 weekends. " 447 00: 27: 58,786 --> 00: 28: 02,039 He was 85 years old at that time. 448 00: 28: 03,082 --> 00: 28: 05,667 I like meeting people from different countries. 449 00: 28: 05,834 --> 00: 28: 08,962 Often they do not understand me, 450 00: 28: 09,129 --> 00: 28: 11,256 and I do not understand, when they speak 451 00: 28: 11,423 --> 00: 28: 13,342 but they understand, when my feet move. 452 00: 28: 13,509 --> 00: 28: 17,248 They say, "I can also." 453 00: 28: 18,388 --> 00: 28: 21,558 As soon as he begins to dance, understand all that. 454 00: 28: 21,725 ​​--> 00: 28: 23,519 It's like a magic pill. 455 00: 28: 23,602 --> 00: 28: 24,686 FOUNDER 456 00: 28: 24,853 --> 00: 28: 27,773 "Now I understand all that, I have done wrong. " 457 00: 28: 27,940 --> 00: 28: 30,234 Swingdans are places 458 00: 28: 30,400 --> 00: 28: 32,820 It has never been before. 459 00: 28: 32,986 --> 00: 28: 34,363 Scandinavia, Western Europe, 460 00: 28: 34,530 --> 00: 28: 36,949 Australia, New Zealand and Asia. 461 00: 28: 37,116 --> 00: 28: 38,283 Right now 462 00: 28: 38,450 --> 00: 28: 41,328 is one of the world's largest Lindy Hop communities say 463 00: 28: 41,453 --> 00: 28: 42,621 in South Korea. 464 00: 28: 43,997 --> 00: 28: 45,437 It's only a Lindy Hop competition 465 00: 28: 45,541 --> 00: 28: 47,584 if you have been teased by a korean 466 00: 28: 50,420 --> 00: 28: 53,340 I would like to see Everyone in the world Lindy Hoppe. 467 00: 29: 04,017 --> 00: 29: 05,894 I started dancing swing 468 00: 29: 06,061 --> 00: 29: 07,980 the year after I became a student. 469 00: 29: 08,147 --> 00: 29: 09,773 Emelie was missing a dance partner, 470 00: 29: 09,940 --> 00: 29: 11,984 so she persuaded me to dance. 471 00: 29: 12,151 --> 00: 29: 13,986 I was wildly skeptical at first. 472 00: 29: 14,153 --> 00: 29: 15,654 I said, "no..." 473 00: 29: 15,821 --> 00: 29: 17,656 - I had to force her. - Yes. 474 00: 29: 17,823 --> 00: 29: 20,033 I said, "I can not even do aerobics." 475 00: 29: 22,870 --> 00: 29: 27,666 We tried to have normal jobs as psychologists. 476 00: 29: 28,083 --> 00: 29: 31,753 You wake up in the morning, and you're happy 477 00: 29: 31,920 --> 00: 29: 34,715 Then you go to work, and during the day 478 00: 29: 34,882 --> 00: 29: 36,967 Talk to people who tell 479 00: 29: 37,134 --> 00: 29: 39,761 Life is a shit and not worth living 480 00: 29: 39,928 --> 00: 29: 41,138 for eight hours. 481 00: 29: 41,305 --> 00: 29: 43,098 And after eight hours 482 00: 29: 43,265 --> 00: 29: 45,225 do you start believing in that? 483 00: 29: 45,434 --> 00: 29: 47,436 So with last client 484 00: 29: 47,603 --> 00: 29: 50,189 are you thinking and thinking, "you're right." 485 00: 29: 52,024 --> 00: 29: 54,985 Psychotherapy was the worst 486 00: 29: 55,444 --> 00: 29: 57,446 Way to make people happy. 487 00: 29: 57,571 --> 00: 30: 00,782 To teach Lindy Hop and dance with people 488 00: 30: 00,908 --> 00: 30: 04,286 is a much better way to make people happy 489 00: 30: 04,453 --> 00: 30: 06,788 and make the world a better place. 490 00: 30: 09,833 --> 00: 30: 11,418 THE SWEDEN SWING ASSOCIATION 491 00: 30: 14,504 --> 00: 30: 17,299 We thought we could combine 492 00: 30: 17,799 --> 00: 30: 20,135 the two jobs and work 200 percent. 493 00: 30: 20,302 --> 00: 30: 21,303 Yes. 494 00: 30: 21,386 --> 00: 30: 23,472 But that was impossible. 495 00: 30: 24,932 --> 00: 30: 29,519 We said yes to teach a lot of places, 496 00: 30: 29,645 --> 00: 30: 32,940 and then we canceled what was ... 497 00: 30: 33,398 --> 00: 30: 34,816 - Completely wrong. - ... stupid to do, 498 00: 30: 34,983 --> 00: 30: 37,152 because you will not be asked again. 499 00: 30: 39,363 --> 00: 30: 41,657 Are you away from the scene 500 00: 30: 41,865 --> 00: 30: 44,034 for half a year or so, 501 00: 30: 44,201 --> 00: 30: 45,619 you'll be forgotten. 502 00: 30: 55,587 --> 00: 30: 57,005 Bend your back. 503 00: 30: 57,464 --> 00: 30: 58,548 No. 504 00: 30: 59,174 --> 00: 31: 01,301 We have traveled extensively on tourist visas. 505 00: 31: 01,468 --> 00: 31: 03,762 It's hard to come through the passport control 506 00: 31: 03,887 --> 00: 31: 06,765 for they ask, how we can travel on holiday 507 00: 31: 06,890 --> 00: 31: 08,433 - continually. - Yes. 508 00: 31: 08,600 --> 00: 31: 11,979 So, let's find lies stories. 509 00: 31: 12,062 --> 00: 31: 13,373 What stories have you found? 510 00: 31: 13,397 --> 00: 31: 15,774 - That we are really rich. - Yes. 511 00: 31: 15,941 --> 00: 31: 17,651 Really rich parents. 512 00: 31: 18,360 --> 00: 31: 19,861 Do you have any other siblings? 513 00: 31: 20,237 --> 00: 31: 23,991 Yes. In fact, we are not biological sisters. 514 00: 31: 24,157 --> 00: 31: 25,617 It's a long story. 515 00: 31: 29,496 --> 00: 31: 32,457 We met too much, very long ago. 516 00: 31: 32,624 --> 00: 31: 34,376 We became very close friends, 517 00: 31: 34,876 --> 00: 31: 39,464 and so we decided to become sisters, to adopt each other. 518 00: 31: 39,840 --> 00: 31: 41,174 Are you a couple? 519 00: 31: 41,341 --> 00: 31: 43,051 Or just the best friends? 520 00: 31: 43,218 --> 00: 31: 45,012 - No, we are sisters. - We are sisters. 521 00: 31: 45,095 --> 00: 31: 46,471 We adopted each other. 522 00: 31: 47,306 --> 00: 31: 49,308 And you've changed your name legally? 523 00: 31: 49,474 --> 00: 31: 50,475 - Yes. - Yes. 524 00: 31: 50,559 --> 00: 31: 51,893 It's in our passport. 525 00: 31: 52,060 --> 00: 31: 53,270 If name did you take? 526 00: 31: 53,770 --> 00: 31: 55,605 - We took a new name. - We found one. 527 00: 31: 55,689 --> 00: 31: 56,815 - Did you find it? - Yes. 528 00: 31: 56,898 --> 00: 32: 00,319 We are the only ones in the world with that name. 529 00: 32: 02,154 --> 00: 32: 06,033 My guy is at home, and I'm gone for a month and a half. 530 00: 32: 06,241 --> 00: 32: 09,828 What is the hierarchy of boyfriend, 531 00: 32: 09,995 --> 00: 32: 13,874 Your partnership, your sisterhood and dance? 532 00: 32: 15,876 --> 00: 32: 17,461 He must be the last. 533 00: 32: 17,586 --> 00: 32: 19,921 Okay, hierarchy ... 534 00: 32: 20,505 --> 00: 32: 22,841 I hope he never sees this. 535 00: 32: 24,134 --> 00: 32: 25,218 But... 536 00: 32: 27,179 --> 00: 32: 28,555 I would always ... I think, 537 00: 32: 28,722 --> 00: 32: 31,850 I would always choose the dance 538 00: 32: 32,392 --> 00: 32: 36,730 and our partnership before him, I think. 539 00: 32: 46,865 --> 00: 32: 49,284 Here's a little Benny Goodman to all of you out there. 540 00: 32: 49,785 --> 00: 32: 52,829 It's called "All the Cats Join In." 541 00: 33: 00,712 --> 00: 33: 03,632 No dance is as social as Lindy Hop. 542 00: 33: 08,470 --> 00: 33: 10,305 There is a driver and one driver. 543 00: 33: 10,472 --> 00: 33: 12,307 The driver must always think ahead, 544 00: 33: 12,474 --> 00: 33: 16,186 plan the next move, how they want to move the partner 545 00: 33: 16,353 --> 00: 33: 19,898 The leader replies again to it, the guy does 546 00: 33: 20,065 --> 00: 33: 22,401 and then a conversation will occur. 547 00: 33: 22,984 --> 00: 33: 24,861 It's a little hard to learn. 548 00: 33: 25,028 --> 00: 33: 27,364 Like many other good things in life. 549 00: 33: 27,531 --> 00: 33: 29,950 You have to make an effort, 550 00: 33: 30,367 --> 00: 33: 33,328 but the reward is absolutely amazing. 551 00: 33: 35,330 --> 00: 33: 39,376 When you dance socially, there is no choreography. 552 00: 33: 39,543 --> 00: 33: 42,712 You dance to the music, the band creates. 553 00: 33: 46,216 --> 00: 33: 47,634 You must improvise. 554 00: 33: 47,801 --> 00: 33: 50,178 You have to negotiate, a bit like jazz music. 555 00: 33: 50,554 --> 00: 33: 53,390 The ability to call and answer, 556 00: 33: 53,557 --> 00: 33: 56,643 to read his partner and see, what happens. 557 00: 33: 57,644 --> 00: 34: 00,272 You share your imagination with someone else, 558 00: 34: 00,439 --> 00: 34: 02,232 It's true intimacy. 559 00: 34: 03,567 --> 00: 34: 05,902 And that moment can not be restored. 560 00: 34: 06,069 --> 00: 34: 07,529 It's very special. 561 00: 34: 08,655 --> 00: 34: 11,116 I have seen other dances 562 00: 34: 11,283 --> 00: 34: 13,493 there is a party dance, but they are very, 563 00: 34: 13,618 --> 00: 34: 16,621 "I'm on date with my boyfriend. Do not invite her to dance. " 564 00: 34: 16,788 --> 00: 34: 19,916 In Lindy Hop, it is understood, that everyone is dancing with everyone. 565 00: 34: 20,083 --> 00: 34: 22,335 The more, the better. 566 00: 34: 22,502 --> 00: 34: 24,296 Was there a movie called Lindy Hop, 567 00: 34: 24,379 --> 00: 34: 26,756 should the slogan be "the more the better." 568 00: 34: 28,550 --> 00: 34: 30,260 When I got home from your ball last Saturday, 569 00: 34: 30,427 --> 00: 34: 33,165 and I came home at 02 o'clock in the night ... 570 00: 34: 33,315 --> 00: 34: 35,474 ... my wife had gone to bed, she woke up, 571 00: 34: 35,599 --> 00: 34: 37,601 and the first one she said was 572 00: 34: 37,726 --> 00: 34: 39,269 "Did you dance with everyone?" 573 00: 34: 39,811 --> 00: 34: 41,521 And I said, "yes I did." 574 00: 34: 42,105 --> 00: 34: 43,273 Wow. 575 00: 34: 45,984 --> 00: 34: 49,446 An incredible intimacy occurs among strangers. 576 00: 34: 50,322 --> 00: 34: 52,699 You meet someone for the first time, and when the song is over, 577 00: 34: 52,824 --> 00: 34: 54,534 Exit each other's sentences. 578 00: 34: 54,868 --> 00: 34: 57,746 Did I experience such a connection to one, I met in the supermarket, 579 00: 34: 57,913 --> 00: 35: 00,207 I would ask for his number. That's not how it is. 580 00: 35: 00,790 --> 00: 35: 04,586 In swing dance you only go move on to the next. 581 00: 35: 05,420 --> 00: 35: 06,421 ENGINEER 582 00: 35: 06,546 --> 00: 35: 08,715 Frankie calls it a three minute romance. 583 00: 35: 08,965 --> 00: 35: 10,675 You fall in love with the person 584 00: 35: 10,842 --> 00: 35: 13,595 you dance for three minutes, and it will be amazing 585 00: 35: 13,762 --> 00: 35: 16,389 and then you do it over and over again night long. 586 00: 35: 24,648 --> 00: 35: 26,608 It's an addiction that's better, 587 00: 35: 27,108 --> 00: 35: 29,736 more satisfactory and healthier than crack, 588 00: 35: 29,903 --> 00: 35: 31,404 but probably as addictive. 589 00: 35: 32,656 --> 00: 35: 33,823 They dance constantly. 590 00: 35: 33,907 --> 00: 35: 34,908 JUDGING 591 00: 35: 35,033 --> 00: 35: 36,493 They move closest to the ballroom, 592 00: 35: 36,618 --> 00: 35: 37,786 with sleeping bags and everything. 593 00: 35: 37,975 --> 00: 35: 40,377 We dance and sleep everywhere. 594 00: 35: 40,461 --> 00: 35: 41,741 I have slept in chairs like this one, 595 00: 35: 41,831 --> 00: 35: 43,059 where you can not even lay down. 596 00: 35: 43,083 --> 00: 35: 44,543 You just have to sit and ... 597 00: 35: 46,002 --> 00: 35: 47,671 They dug the windows to 598 00: 35: 47,837 --> 00: 35: 49,214 and dancing for hours. 599 00: 35: 50,924 --> 00: 35: 52,342 We do not sell smokers. 600 00: 35: 52,509 --> 00: 35: 53,760 We do not sell splashes. 601 00: 35: 53,927 --> 00: 35: 55,428 We do not sell Snickers. 602 00: 35: 55,804 --> 00: 35: 58,265 We only sell happiness. 603 00: 35: 58,431 --> 00: 36: 00,225 When my husband freed, 604 00: 36: 01,101 --> 00: 36: 04,104 I said that I was already married with Lindy Hop. 605 00: 36: 05,063 --> 00: 36: 08,275 It means everything to me. It's pure joy put on music. 606 00: 36: 34,175 --> 00: 36: 37,137 In 2005, the city was ... 607 00: 36: 37,304 --> 00: 36: 38,471 SANGER / DANSER, NEW ORLEANS 608 00: 36: 38,597 --> 00: 36: 40,181 stuffed with death, but ... 609 00: 36: 40,307 --> 00: 36: 43,018 ... also with faithfulness and life at the same time. 610 00: 36: 43,310 --> 00: 36: 45,770 New Orleans went to downtown for Lindy Hop 611 00: 36: 45,854 --> 00: 36: 47,272 after Hurricane Katrina. 612 00: 36: 47,439 --> 00: 36: 49,566 Many professional instructors and musicians 613 00: 36: 49,733 --> 00: 36: 52,444 moved here to bring art back 614 00: 36: 52,527 --> 00: 36: 55,322 to the streets and save the life of jazz. 615 00: 37: 03,538 --> 00: 37: 05,081 5 CENTER PER DANCE 616 00: 37: 14,424 --> 00: 37: 18,637 The swing music originates from the music, There came from New Orleans, 617 00: 37: 18,803 --> 00: 37: 20,764 the traditional jazz. 618 00: 37: 21,556 --> 00: 37: 23,850 When I got here I was a little scared, 619 00: 37: 24,017 --> 00: 37: 25,935 because I had built up my head 620 00: 37: 26,102 --> 00: 37: 27,937 How amazing it would be 621 00: 37: 28,104 --> 00: 37: 30,106 and I was afraid to be disappointed. 622 00: 37: 31,149 --> 00: 37: 33,193 But I saw, that there were bands everywhere, 623 00: 37: 33,360 --> 00: 37: 34,653 and there was dance in the street. 624 00: 37: 37,030 --> 00: 37: 39,366 New Orleans is the only place in the world, 625 00: 37: 39,532 --> 00: 37: 41,534 where you can walk down the street and find Lindy Hop. 626 00: 37: 43,161 --> 00: 37: 44,663 Last night the bars were filled, 627 00: 37: 44,829 --> 00: 37: 47,540 so we went out and it was fine, because there was also a band. 628 00: 37: 47,707 --> 00: 37: 49,167 Then we could dance here. 629 00: 37: 49,334 --> 00: 37: 50,627 Then go further down. 630 00: 37: 50,794 --> 00: 37: 52,295 There was a new band. What about over there? 631 00: 37: 58,051 --> 00: 38: 01,096 It was like Disneyland for dancers. 632 00: 38: 12,774 --> 00: 38: 15,318 Music has healed people in New Orleans 633 00: 38: 15,485 --> 00: 38: 17,779 since the birth of the city. 634 00: 38: 28,206 --> 00: 38: 29,833 We celebrate life whenever we can. 635 00: 38: 44,472 --> 00: 38: 49,769 BLUE COMPETITION 636 00: 39: 03,074 --> 00: 39: 05,410 Blues dance was of course 637 00: 39: 05,577 --> 00: 39: 07,203 a very intimate dance, 638 00: 39: 07,287 --> 00: 39: 09,372 as one would dance with his girlfriend. 639 00: 39: 10,874 --> 00: 39: 12,584 Historically traded it if so, 640 00: 39: 12,751 --> 00: 39: 14,669 man made late at night for private party, 641 00: 39: 14,836 --> 00: 39: 16,087 after drinking 642 00: 39: 16,171 --> 00: 39: 17,172 INTERNATIONAL INSTRUCTOR 643 00: 39: 17,297 --> 00: 39: 19,299 ... at a pub or something. 644 00: 39: 20,133 --> 00: 39: 22,010 It was never a standard dance. 645 00: 39: 22,844 --> 00: 39: 23,970 It's funny. 646 00: 39: 24,137 --> 00: 39: 27,640 So, I do not want to offend anyone, 647 00: 39: 27,724 --> 00: 39: 30,560 But I'm among those who think The blues are a bit disgusting. 648 00: 39: 33,104 --> 00: 39: 35,398 Many people are afraid of it 649 00: 39: 35,565 --> 00: 39: 38,193 because it can be so intimate. 650 00: 39: 39,486 --> 00: 39: 40,779 There is a silence, 651 00: 39: 40,945 --> 00: 39: 43,281 when pressed against another, 652 00: 39: 43,490 --> 00: 39: 45,200 and, I think, force one more 653 00: 39: 45,700 --> 00: 39: 48,244 to be present at the moment. 654 00: 39: 49,704 --> 00: 39: 51,748 HAIRDRESSER 655 00: 39: 51,831 --> 00: 39: 54,375 With blues dance I think, 656 00: 39: 54,542 --> 00: 39: 58,171 that the border is hard. Personally, I like it. 657 00: 40: 02,133 --> 00: 40: 04,719 It has become part of something you learn, when you are swing dancer. 658 00: 40: 04,886 --> 00: 40: 06,221 Perhaps you will act with it. 659 00: 40: 06,304 --> 00: 40: 08,473 Maybe you participate in competitions, as we do. 660 00: 40: 12,685 --> 00: 40: 16,898 I love those moments in blues dance, where you buck up, 661 00: 40: 17,065 --> 00: 40: 20,819 or hang out anymore, before taking a step. 662 00: 40: 22,278 --> 00: 40: 25,615 Or you melt in a deep, 663 00: 40: 25,782 --> 00: 40: 29,327 and almost just drip each other. 664 00: 40: 30,787 --> 00: 40: 32,372 You know how to say, 665 00: 40: 32,539 --> 00: 40: 36,793 "you first know how to react, when you stand at the moment? " 666 00: 40: 38,044 --> 00: 40: 40,839 This really applies to dance at times. 667 00: 40: 59,899 --> 00: 41: 02,151 Does it feel like you're looking at someone else? 668 00: 41: 02,902 --> 00: 41: 05,405 Yes, she's a lot more ... 669 00: 41: 06,072 --> 00: 41: 08,408 Powerful and Controlled and ... 670 00: 41: 09,576 --> 00: 41: 11,619 ... collected than I feel. 671 00: 41: 13,997 --> 00: 41: 16,749 I do not have the perfect shape or body. 672 00: 41: 17,125 --> 00: 41: 18,877 It does not look like the leaves. 673 00: 41: 18,960 --> 00: 41: 20,795 It does not look like movie stars. 674 00: 41: 20,962 --> 00: 41: 23,298 It does not look like a ballet dancer. 675 00: 41: 23,798 --> 00: 41: 26,843 Nevertheless, it is accurate, as it should be. 676 00: 41: 31,222 --> 00: 41: 32,932 It's scary 677 00: 41: 33,391 --> 00: 41: 36,436 Moving sensibly. 678 00: 41: 37,228 --> 00: 41: 40,481 It requires self-confidence or permission. 679 00: 41: 41,107 --> 00: 41: 43,318 Everyone has it. 680 00: 41: 43,484 --> 00: 41: 45,320 We can all do it. 681 00: 41: 45,820 --> 00: 41: 48,948 But it scares us to be such. 682 00: 41: 53,328 --> 00: 41: 54,662 When I teach blues, 683 00: 41: 54,829 --> 00: 41: 58,875 I spend the most time to talk about psychology 684 00: 41: 59,042 --> 00: 42: 01,461 rather than "Hi everyone, make this step." 685 00: 42: 02,211 --> 00: 42: 05,006 And maybe it is, What people need sometimes. 686 00: 42: 05,173 --> 00: 42: 06,382 They need 687 00: 42: 07,008 --> 00: 42: 08,635 permission from another 688 00: 42: 08,843 --> 00: 42: 10,553 to do what they want. 689 00: 42: 26,611 --> 00: 42: 28,154 When I started in the 90s, 690 00: 42: 28,279 --> 00: 42: 31,783 there were many ex-punkers, 691 00: 42: 32,116 --> 00: 42: 35,453 but now it's the most young, 692 00: 42: 35,620 --> 00: 42: 39,499 the very religious and / or Asian engineers. 693 00: 42: 41,834 --> 00: 42: 44,087 A joke's mixture, but it seems obvious. 694 00: 42: 45,338 --> 00: 42: 47,423 There is a group, missing in large numbers. 695 00: 42: 47,590 --> 00: 42: 49,634 They are included, but not in the number, 696 00: 42: 49,717 --> 00: 42: 51,135 they should be in 697 00: 42: 51,219 --> 00: 42: 52,779 They are African-American dancers. 698 00: 42: 52,887 --> 00: 42: 56,409 It's one of the strangest contradictions. 699 00: 42: 56,557 --> 00: 42: 57,976 The dance originated in Harlem. 700 00: 42: 59,352 --> 00: 43: 01,646 It spread throughout the world, It's great, 701 00: 43: 02,105 --> 00: 43: 05,108 and along the way, we hit a sidetrack. 702 00: 43: 05,984 --> 00: 43: 07,735 You belong in the black community, 703 00: 43: 07,902 --> 00: 43: 09,904 "we create things, and then we move on, 704 00: 43: 10,029 --> 00: 43: 11,322 we move on. " 705 00: 43: 11,656 --> 00: 43: 13,908 We went somewhere, It was filled with blacks. 706 00: 43: 14,409 --> 00: 43: 17,370 And they did ... theirs. 707 00: 43: 17,537 --> 00: 43: 20,039 We found a corner and started dancing. 708 00: 43: 20,206 --> 00: 43: 21,582 We were only about ten, 709 00: 43: 21,749 --> 00: 43: 23,751 and all the black came and said, 710 00: 43: 23,918 --> 00: 43: 26,629 "Hey, wait a minute. What are you doing?" 711 00: 43: 27,088 --> 00: 43: 28,923 I said, "it was fun." 712 00: 43: 29,090 --> 00: 43: 30,508 It's your dance, 713 00: 43: 30,675 --> 00: 43: 33,803 and then you come and ask, "what we do." 714 00: 43: 35,555 --> 00: 43: 37,056 When we talk to children 715 00: 43: 37,181 --> 00: 43: 39,559 and ask them, "Where does that dance come from?" 716 00: 43: 39,726 --> 00: 43: 40,852 Then they respond to Europe. 717 00: 43: 41,019 --> 00: 43: 42,937 They answer anything but Harlem. 718 00: 43: 44,814 --> 00: 43: 47,275 I show them old clips in black and white. 719 00: 43: 47,442 --> 00: 43: 50,820 "I say," now you will see some people do it today 720 00: 43: 50,987 --> 00: 43: 52,321 so you can see some color clips. 721 00: 43: 52,488 --> 00: 43: 55,074 "You have to tell me which color, You can not see. " 722 00: 43: 55,199 --> 00: 43: 57,910 They say, "I do not look brown. I do not see myself. " 723 00: 43: 58,661 --> 00: 43: 59,912 And that's annoying. 724 00: 44: 00,079 --> 00: 44: 03,124 I feel that black do not get many things 725 00: 44: 03,291 --> 00: 44: 06,377 in their culture or heritage, as they can be proud of, 726 00: 44: 06,669 --> 00: 44: 08,629 and it's hard to grow up like that. 727 00: 44: 08,796 --> 00: 44: 11,340 It's hard to grow up and have self-understanding. 728 00: 44: 13,384 --> 00: 44: 16,888 But we are responsible for an art form 729 00: 44: 17,055 --> 00: 44: 19,932 and that's something I am proud to call my. 730 00: 44: 20,516 --> 00: 44: 22,435 You have to include ... 731 00: 44: 22,602 --> 00: 44: 25,563 Hit them in, shake them. 732 00: 44: 25,980 --> 00: 44: 29,442 But get the black ones Join in what you do! 733 00: 44: 30,985 --> 00: 44: 33,654 There are people out there, who needs this dance, 734 00: 44: 33,821 --> 00: 44: 35,823 and earlier, you learn it 735 00: 44: 35,990 --> 00: 44: 38,951 the happier and more well-adjusted you will probably be. 736 00: 44: 39,744 --> 00: 44: 43,081 Once they've watched the movies, they will also try. 737 00: 44: 43,247 --> 00: 44: 45,750 And they discover that they do not can dance like this with hanging dust. 738 00: 44: 45,917 --> 00: 44: 48,169 So they get up in their pants and starts. 739 00: 44: 51,839 --> 00: 44: 54,675 Music, dance, the excitement hits them. 740 00: 44: 55,259 --> 00: 44: 58,096 It is enough in the blood. And they do not know. 741 00: 45: 11,734 --> 00: 45: 14,779 Chanzie and I are on my way to Washington D.C. 742 00: 45: 15,279 --> 00: 45: 18,241 for a week and a half to the international Lindy Hop Championship. 743 00: 45: 19,951 --> 00: 45: 21,661 Congratulations, man. 744 00: 45: 21,869 --> 00: 45: 23,204 - It is large. - Yes. Thanks man. 745 00: 45: 23,287 --> 00: 45: 25,414 ILHC is one of the largest 746 00: 45: 25,832 --> 00: 45: 27,792 International Events in the World. 747 00: 45: 27,959 --> 00: 45: 30,002 It has an energy, There is a little different. 748 00: 45: 30,169 --> 00: 45: 32,296 Because there are so many foreigners. 749 00: 45: 32,421 --> 00: 45: 36,801 There are people from all over the world, and the best of the best come. 750 00: 45: 46,227 --> 00: 45: 47,728 Are you nervous? 751 00: 45: 47,854 --> 00: 45: 50,064 - Slightly. - Always. It is... 752 00: 45: 50,231 --> 00: 45: 51,732 Most of all excited. 753 00: 45: 51,899 --> 00: 45: 55,278 Most excited. Excited-nervous, but it should be. 754 00: 45: 55,444 --> 00: 45: 58,156 When the music begins, disappearing the nerves. 755 00: 45: 58,322 --> 00: 46: 01,951 Also from the United States, Steven Sayer and Chandrae Roettig. 756 00: 46: 03,244 --> 00: 46: 05,663 The competitors are much stronger 757 00: 46: 05,830 --> 00: 46: 08,207 than to Camp Hollywood this year. 758 00: 46: 08,374 --> 00: 46: 10,877 And then just what you want. 759 00: 46: 11,043 --> 00: 46: 12,461 My recommendation is ... 760 00: 46: 12,628 --> 00: 46: 14,213 Swing out! 761 00: 46: 14,338 --> 00: 46: 15,339 Thank you very much, Baltimore. 762 00: 46: 16,841 --> 00: 46: 19,635 It's not like home. There is some comfort at home ... 763 00: 46: 19,719 --> 00: 46: 21,029 We do not have home advantage anymore. 764 00: 46: 21,053 --> 00: 46: 22,053 Yes. 765 00: 46: 22,096 --> 00: 46: 23,323 It's somebody else's home ground. 766 00: 46: 23,347 --> 00: 46: 24,682 Baltimore! 767 00: 46: 24,849 --> 00: 46: 27,018 Baltimore! Baltimore! 768 00: 46: 27,185 --> 00: 46: 29,812 They here Baltimore kids. Goddamn. 769 00: 46: 32,398 --> 00: 46: 33,399 One two... 770 00: 46: 33,482 --> 00: 46: 34,859 Hit your hands. 771 00: 47: 42,885 --> 00: 47: 45,763 We have really worked hard. Really. 772 00: 47: 45,930 --> 00: 47: 48,140 I thought it would be like Camp Hollywood, 773 00: 47: 48,307 --> 00: 47: 50,268 where we blew everybody else away. 774 00: 47: 58,276 --> 00: 48: 00,236 Then we come down there, 775 00: 48: 00,403 --> 00: 48: 02,280 and they are all here, 776 00: 48: 02,446 --> 00: 48: 05,616 all the big names. Say a name, they were here. 777 00: 48: 09,328 --> 00: 48: 11,956 Kevin and Jo had take a good look at the audience. 778 00: 48: 12,123 --> 00: 48: 15,126 They caught the Baltimore audience. 779 00: 48: 17,586 --> 00: 48: 20,339 We certainly did not. 780 00: 48: 28,723 --> 00: 48: 31,434 Yes! Make some noise! 781 00: 48: 31,726 --> 00: 48: 32,727 We stank. 782 00: 48: 32,935 --> 00: 48: 34,854 It had helped, if we were better. 783 00: 48: 48,576 --> 00: 48: 50,953 CATALINA ISLAND, CALIFORNIA 784 00: 48: 51,078 --> 00: 48: 54,540 There are places all over the world, where to dance. 785 00: 48: 56,500 --> 00: 48: 59,420 It does not remind you, how people pray. 786 00: 49: 00,254 --> 00: 49: 04,800 You can pray in your bedroom, in the subway 787 00: 49: 04,967 --> 00: 49: 07,428 and have a religious moment anywhere. 788 00: 49: 07,845 --> 00: 49: 12,016 But sometimes you enter a cathedral. 789 00: 49: 16,896 --> 00: 49: 20,399 Avalon Ballroom at Catalina Island 790 00: 49: 20,858 --> 00: 49: 24,820 is like entering dance cathedral. 791 00: 49: 36,207 --> 00: 49: 38,250 I can remember when I met the caretaker. 792 00: 49: 38,417 --> 00: 49: 41,045 He has been there since the 30's or 40's. 793 00: 49: 41,212 --> 00: 49: 42,713 He was an elderly gentleman. 794 00: 49: 42,963 --> 00: 49: 44,882 On his way he said to me, 795 00: 49: 45,216 --> 00: 49: 48,179 "The lady was happy for your show." 796 00: 49: 49,136 --> 00: 49: 51,597 And I looked confused at him 797 00: 49: 51,722 --> 00: 49: 53,641 and said, "Oh, lady?" 798 00: 49: 53,808 --> 00: 49: 56,268 He said, "yes, the ballroom, lady." 799 00: 49: 56,769 --> 00: 49: 58,854 And she has seen them all. " 800 00: 50: 41,897 --> 00: 50: 43,649 My Goodness. 801 00: 50: 44,233 --> 00: 50: 45,234 - Yes. - Wow. 802 00: 50: 45,401 --> 00: 50: 46,402 Thanks. 803 00: 50: 46,569 --> 00: 50: 48,154 We have never danced together. 804 00: 50: 48,320 --> 00: 50: 49,655 It's magical, 805 00: 50: 49,822 --> 00: 50: 52,366 like a little miracle. 806 00: 50: 53,324 --> 00: 50: 54,869 You feel much better, than you are. 807 00: 50: 55,005 --> 00: 50: 56,036 I'm not so good. 808 00: 50: 56,120 --> 00: 50: 58,038 - That's not true. - She made me much better. 809 00: 51: 06,338 --> 00: 51: 09,383 Steve and I had to dance three numbers in a row. 810 00: 51: 09,592 --> 00: 51: 12,011 And yes, that sounds romantic and dramatically, 811 00: 51: 12,178 --> 00: 51: 15,639 but it's kind of happening all the time with this dance. 812 00: 51: 17,558 --> 00: 51: 20,603 You meet someone, and immediately click 813 00: 51: 20,769 --> 00: 51: 22,813 and that does not mean, that you are getting married 814 00: 51: 23,105 --> 00: 51: 25,816 but there is a real spark. 815 00: 51: 26,484 --> 00: 51: 29,737 - Steve, that was a pleasure. - Yes it was. 816 00: 51: 30,696 --> 00: 51: 33,073 I look forward to that our roads cross again. 817 00: 51: 33,157 --> 00: 51: 34,575 It will be fantastic. 818 00: 51: 40,748 --> 00: 51: 43,125 Physical contact and touch 819 00: 51: 43,292 --> 00: 51: 46,670 is the most powerful gift, we can give each other. 820 00: 51: 50,966 --> 00: 51: 53,219 I think people are afraid 821 00: 51: 54,178 --> 00: 51: 55,930 physically touching each other 822 00: 51: 56,347 --> 00: 51: 58,182 because it might be too intimate? 823 00: 51: 59,058 --> 00: 52: 02,978 And it's easy to distance ourselves. 824 00: 52: 06,815 --> 00: 52: 10,069 As I grew up, got an education, 825 00: 52: 10,319 --> 00: 52: 12,279 got a job stamped in and out, 826 00: 52: 12,446 --> 00: 52: 15,032 I did not really a life beyond it. 827 00: 52: 15,366 --> 00: 52: 18,702 Emotionally I was ... 828 00: 52: 19,161 --> 00: 52: 20,663 ... tucked away and locked in. 829 00: 52: 21,288 --> 00: 52: 24,708 It's not a good way to live. 830 00: 52: 25,417 --> 00: 52: 26,752 We're getting busy with other things. 831 00: 52: 26,919 --> 00: 52: 30,464 We get busy working hard or study and such. 832 00: 52: 30,548 --> 00: 52: 32,800 You forget freedom. 833 00: 52: 32,967 --> 00: 52: 34,927 You forget to be spontaneous. 834 00: 52: 36,387 --> 00: 52: 38,347 I have many friends 835 00: 52: 38,514 --> 00: 52: 39,932 There are regular jobs, 836 00: 52: 40,099 --> 00: 52: 42,434 where they are in an office by a computer 837 00: 52: 42,560 --> 00: 52: 46,480 and they meet with me at Swing 46 Tuesday evening, 838 00: 52: 46,647 --> 00: 52: 50,276 for this is where they are physically can be with people. 839 00: 52: 50,442 --> 00: 52: 53,529 It's not about hanging in a bar 840 00: 52: 53,696 --> 00: 52: 54,738 but about to play. 841 00: 52: 56,407 --> 00: 53: 00,244 One must be on the feet and physically touch someone else. 842 00: 53: 01,453 --> 00: 53: 03,664 Every dance feels like sharing a joke 843 00: 53: 03,747 --> 00: 53: 05,916 or have a secret conversation. 844 00: 53: 06,000 --> 00: 53: 08,627 I think that connection to another person 845 00: 53: 08,711 --> 00: 53: 10,671 is enough to break the trummerum 846 00: 53: 10,838 --> 00: 53: 13,048 and make one realize that that everything is okay. 847 00: 53: 16,176 --> 00: 53: 18,429 I'm looking around, and there are 200 people 848 00: 53: 18,596 --> 00: 53: 20,681 and no-one looks at their phones. Unbelievable. 849 00: 53: 20,848 --> 00: 53: 23,183 People get a free room 850 00: 53: 23,350 --> 00: 53: 26,437 all the negativity, Modern culture leans on us. 851 00: 53: 29,857 --> 00: 53: 32,192 I needed to hold someone's hand, 852 00: 53: 32,359 --> 00: 53: 34,486 Give them a hug, 853 00: 53: 34,737 --> 00: 53: 36,905 share a laugh. 854 00: 53: 37,072 --> 00: 53: 39,366 And I just did not before Lindy Hop. 855 00: 53: 39,533 --> 00: 53: 42,453 It made me more willing 856 00: 53: 42,620 --> 00: 53: 45,122 to get people to know and open. 857 00: 53: 45,956 --> 00: 53: 47,166 It's so weird. 858 00: 53: 47,333 --> 00: 53: 48,751 I'm not thinking 859 00: 53: 49,710 --> 00: 53: 51,253 future, bills ... 860 00: 53: 51,420 --> 00: 53: 52,504 Problems ... 861 00: 53: 52,671 --> 00: 53: 54,632 ... money. I'm just dancing. 862 00: 53: 59,053 --> 00: 54: 01,013 Would not you rather hear "dance with me" 863 00: 54: 01,096 --> 00: 54: 03,599 - than "find me on Facebook?" - Exact! 864 00: 54: 03,724 --> 00: 54: 04,892 INSTRUCTORS 865 00: 54: 04,975 --> 00: 54: 06,977 - I am poking you! - I am poking you. 866 00: 54: 23,577 --> 00: 54: 27,831 One of the most special things at the Lindy Hop community is 867 00: 54: 27,956 --> 00: 54: 31,710 what did the old ones mean, the original dancers. 868 00: 54: 32,127 --> 00: 54: 37,216 In today's society there are not many options 869 00: 54: 37,383 --> 00: 54: 39,468 to meet people from other generations, 870 00: 54: 39,635 --> 00: 54: 40,803 unless they are family. 871 00: 54: 41,011 --> 00: 54: 42,721 Freda has been an inspiration 872 00: 54: 42,805 --> 00: 54: 45,224 for many of us dancers for a long, long time. 873 00: 54: 45,307 --> 00: 54: 46,308 APPROACH FREDA 90 YEARS 874 00: 54: 46,392 --> 00: 54: 48,769 You make us feel as part of 875 00: 54: 48,936 --> 00: 54: 51,939 a very large family. Freda, we love you! 876 00: 54: 54,149 --> 00: 55: 00,239 APPENDIX FREDA! 877 00: 55: 18,674 --> 00: 55: 22,553 They give us the story behind it, we love. 878 00: 55: 22,720 --> 00: 55: 25,514 And they provide it on a personal level, 879 00: 55: 25,639 --> 00: 55: 27,599 because they have lived through it. They were there. 880 00: 55: 49,079 --> 00: 55: 50,831 It's just in the heart of me. 881 00: 55: 50,998 --> 00: 55: 53,000 It really does. 882 00: 55: 53,667 --> 00: 55: 56,420 When I started in the mid-90s, 883 00: 55: 56,837 --> 00: 55: 59,590 were many of these people in 70s and 80s. 884 00: 55: 59,757 --> 00: 56: 01,550 I thought, "we are lucky" 885 00: 56: 01,717 --> 00: 56: 04,678 to so many of these people still with us, 886 00: 56: 04,845 --> 00: 56: 06,847 for about a few years 887 00: 56: 07,014 --> 00: 56: 08,348 "are they all gone." 888 00: 56: 08,557 --> 00: 56: 11,226 15 years later, and most of them is still here. 889 00: 56: 11,351 --> 00: 56: 12,394 SWING PLAYFUL 890 00: 56: 12,478 --> 00: 56: 14,313 Which is completely inconceivable. 891 00: 56: 14,521 --> 00: 56: 16,690 There are people over 90, still dancing. 892 00: 56: 16,774 --> 00: 56: 21,111 SWING PLAYFUL 893 00: 56: 21,278 --> 00: 56: 26,366 SWING PLAYFUL 894 00: 56: 26,617 --> 00: 56: 29,495 I stop dancing, when my feet can not move. 895 00: 56: 30,287 --> 00: 56: 33,665 And then I will still try to do it from a chair. 896 00: 56: 43,175 --> 00: 56: 44,635 Wait, what is it called? 897 00: 56: 44,802 --> 00: 56: 46,303 - Tabby the Cat. - Tabby the Cat. 898 00: 56: 46,845 --> 00: 56: 47,888 You know when. 899 00: 56: 54,019 --> 00: 56: 56,605 One of the most rewarding things about it is 900 00: 56: 56,772 --> 00: 56: 59,733 that I can see this activity help in people's lives. 901 00: 56: 59,900 --> 00: 57: 01,401 It's not the activity. 902 00: 57: 01,568 --> 00: 57: 03,445 It is the community combined with the activity. 903 00: 57: 03,612 --> 00: 57: 06,240 One two Three. 904 00: 57: 06,949 --> 00: 57: 11,453 I personally know that's true. 905 00: 57: 11,620 --> 00: 57: 14,998 In 2000 I had an accident with my dance partner, peter. 906 00: 57: 15,165 --> 00: 57: 16,750 We practiced our throw 907 00: 57: 16,917 --> 00: 57: 18,836 to ensure that that our timing was in place. 908 00: 57: 19,002 --> 00: 57: 21,046 Suddenly, it's going wrong, and while I'm diving 909 00: 57: 21,213 --> 00: 57: 22,756 shall I be able to catch his legs, 910 00: 57: 22,881 --> 00: 57: 24,508 and I discover, that he is not there. 911 00: 57: 24,675 --> 00: 57: 25,968 I can not do anything. 912 00: 57: 26,134 --> 00: 57: 28,053 I can not get my hands down. 913 00: 57: 28,220 --> 00: 57: 31,557 So I land on my head from 2.4 meters high, 914 00: 57: 31,723 --> 00: 57: 34,351 and I hear crack and break, 915 00: 57: 34,518 --> 00: 57: 36,562 and then I could not feel my body. 916 00: 57: 38,230 --> 00: 57: 39,523 I did not breathe 917 00: 57: 39,690 --> 00: 57: 41,525 I lay like this, 918 00: 57: 41,692 --> 00: 57: 42,818 because I was paralyzed. 919 00: 57: 44,862 --> 00: 57: 47,990 I broke my neck five places. 920 00: 57: 48,949 --> 00: 57: 50,367 I was close to death, 921 00: 57: 50,701 --> 00: 57: 52,911 and swing dance community did like this 922 00: 57: 53,495 --> 00: 57: 54,663 and lifted me up, 923 00: 57: 54,830 --> 00: 57: 56,665 held me in their little hands 924 00: 57: 56,832 --> 00: 57: 59,084 Until all was okay. 925 00: 57: 59,251 --> 00: 58: 01,253 CT / MR SCANNING 926 00: 58: 01,503 --> 00: 58: 04,339 I received over 500 emails printed, cut out, 927 00: 58: 04,506 --> 00: 58: 06,925 My living room was wallpapered with them. 928 00: 58: 07,092 --> 00: 58: 08,886 Flowers came everyday. 929 00: 58: 09,052 --> 00: 58: 11,513 And they sent me a big video message and a phone call. 930 00: 58: 11,680 --> 00: 58: 12,931 It was incredible. 931 00: 58: 14,099 --> 00: 58: 15,684 And it... 932 00: 58: 16,435 --> 00: 58: 17,644 It was healing. 933 00: 58: 17,811 --> 00: 58: 19,187 We are a family. 934 00: 58: 19,354 --> 00: 58: 21,273 We do just what you need. 935 00: 58: 21,481 --> 00: 58: 22,774 We are here for you. 936 00: 58: 24,568 --> 00: 58: 26,612 I can not count 937 00: 58: 26,778 --> 00: 58: 28,906 How many students have told me this: 938 00: 58: 29,323 --> 00: 58: 32,117 "I have released antidepressants." 939 00: 58: 32,367 --> 00: 58: 35,162 "I've lost a lot of pounds and have a lot better. " 940 00: 58: 35,454 --> 00: 58: 39,249 "I came through the worst bride in my life. " 941 00: 58: 39,499 --> 00: 58: 42,544 "I lost my job and did not know, how to survive 942 00: 58: 42,711 --> 00: 58: 44,212 and this got me through. " 943 00: 58: 44,421 --> 00: 58: 46,048 It is incredible to hear. 944 00: 58: 46,256 --> 00: 58: 49,092 All that comes from swing dance? Swing Dance? 945 00: 58: 49,635 --> 00: 58: 50,802 Swing Dance. 946 00: 59: 05,275 --> 00: 59: 09,112 After ... at ILHC 947 00: 59: 09,446 --> 00: 59: 11,698 we had to come again 948 00: 59: 11,865 --> 00: 59: 14,368 and recover ourselves and the excitement again. 949 00: 59: 28,131 --> 00: 59: 29,508 2. PLACE 950 00: 59: 33,679 --> 00: 59: 35,347 1ST PLACE 951 00: 59: 40,435 --> 00: 59: 41,561 1ST PLACE 952 00: 59: 42,562 --> 00: 59: 44,940 Then we should go to ILHC again and ... 953 00: 59: 45,732 --> 00: 59: 46,858 Wow! 954 00: 59: 49,628 --> 00: 59: 52,072 Last year we felt like ... 955 00: 59: 52,864 --> 00: 59: 54,199 ... nothing. 956 00: 59: 55,325 --> 00: 59: 57,869 Tiny fish in a big, big lake. 957 00: 59: 58,286 --> 01: 00: 01,039 This year we still feel like little fish 958 01: 00: 01,206 --> 01: 00: 03,583 but we feel very good small fish. 959 01: 00: 06,795 --> 01: 00: 08,964 I'm watching our dance this year, and I like it. 960 01: 00: 09,339 --> 01: 00: 10,882 We've gotten better together. 961 01: 00: 14,177 --> 01: 00: 15,220 Hello. 962 01: 00: 15,470 --> 01: 00: 16,805 Hi, I just wanted to tell 963 01: 00: 16,888 --> 01: 00: 18,849 You have reached the final. 964 01: 00: 19,016 --> 01: 00: 20,434 - Juhuu! - The final in what? 965 01: 00: 22,060 --> 01: 00: 23,103 What? 966 01: 00: 43,832 --> 01: 00: 45,667 When we became friends, I knew 967 01: 00: 45,834 --> 01: 00: 47,627 This was my chance 968 01: 00: 47,794 --> 01: 00: 50,547 to get it out of dance I wanted. With Chanzie. 969 01: 00: 56,386 --> 01: 00: 58,930 2. PLACE 970 01: 01: 01,850 --> 01: 01: 04,061 And here are the 1st place winners, 971 01: 01: 05,062 --> 01: 01: 06,396 they did well ... 972 01: 01: 06,646 --> 01: 01: 10,150 Our goal is to lift the stage in L.A. 973 01: 01: 10,692 --> 01: 01: 12,402 - Specific. - Respected as in the old days. 974 01: 01: 12,527 --> 01: 01: 13,945 People used to say, "L.A.?" 975 01: 01: 14,071 --> 01: 01: 16,782 Such, "are you from L.A.? Then you must be good. " 976 01: 01: 16,907 --> 01: 01: 18,575 Such was everyone thinking, 977 01: 01: 18,742 --> 01: 01: 20,262 If you were from L.A., were you too cool? 978 01: 01: 20,410 --> 01: 01: 21,536 Up on row! 979 01: 01: 22,954 --> 01: 01: 24,081 Ryk. 980 01: 01: 27,334 --> 01: 01: 29,211 Quick, fast, stop. 981 01: 01: 29,419 --> 01: 01: 30,796 I'm trying to motivate people 982 01: 01: 30,962 --> 01: 01: 32,672 thus, That would motivate me. 983 01: 01: 33,048 --> 01: 01: 34,966 If it was up to me, I said, 984 01: 01: 35,133 --> 01: 01: 37,552 "Chanzie, they have not deserved any breaks. " 985 01: 01: 37,844 --> 01: 01: 42,099 The break is before the song and after the song. Okay? 986 01: 01: 42,265 --> 01: 01: 45,393 During the song you give full screw, continually. 987 01: 01: 45,560 --> 01: 01: 47,020 Sometimes you play evil strings ... 988 01: 01: 47,187 --> 01: 01: 48,688 - Sometimes. - But not so often. 989 01: 01: 48,939 --> 01: 01: 50,357 - We'll change a little. - Yes. 990 01: 01: 50,649 --> 01: 01: 53,276 But I'm probably the best streamer. 991 01: 01: 53,985 --> 01: 01: 55,070 I'm asshole. 992 01: 01: 58,448 --> 01: 02: 01,284 I think we first saw that Steve and Chanzie 993 01: 02: 01,451 --> 01: 02: 04,496 in clips from competitions. 994 01: 02: 04,663 --> 01: 02: 10,168 We saw that they taught an event in San Diego, wherever we were. 995 01: 02: 13,713 --> 01: 02: 18,343 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 996 01: 02: 20,137 --> 01: 02: 22,722 Meeting the DecaVita sisters in the middle of San Diego, 997 01: 02: 23,640 --> 01: 02: 24,391 it was cool. 998 01: 02: 24,474 --> 01: 02: 26,309 They are so lovely. 999 01: 02: 29,104 --> 01: 02: 30,772 Are you really sisters? 1000 01: 02: 34,025 --> 01: 02: 36,778 I felt they were on their way. 1001 01: 02: 37,195 --> 01: 02: 39,406 They had a glow, 1002 01: 02: 39,573 --> 01: 02: 43,118 an optimism and energy, 1003 01: 02: 43,285 --> 01: 02: 47,372 like many of the established people has no longer. 1004 01: 02: 51,751 --> 01: 02: 56,173 There was a clear chemistry between Emelie and Steven 1005 01: 02: 56,798 --> 01: 02: 59,509 from the first moment they met. 1006 01: 03: 02,596 --> 01: 03: 03,597 Hey, Emelie. 1007 01: 03: 08,018 --> 01: 03: 09,186 What happened yesterday? 1008 01: 03: 09,352 --> 01: 03: 10,854 Did you? Did you !? 1009 01: 03: 14,065 --> 01: 03: 15,650 No, we got some drinks. 1010 01: 03: 16,109 --> 01: 03: 17,986 So you went out and drank? 1011 01: 03: 18,320 --> 01: 03: 20,280 No Yes. 1012 01: 03: 20,614 --> 01: 03: 22,073 It's my Swedish girlfriend. 1013 01: 03: 22,240 --> 01: 03: 24,242 Film her face. It's nicest. 1014 01: 03: 24,409 --> 01: 03: 26,161 - I love her. - Yes. 1015 01: 03: 28,538 --> 01: 03: 29,831 Come on! 1016 01: 03: 30,040 --> 01: 03: 31,416 It's easy, but no ... 1017 01: 03: 31,583 --> 01: 03: 33,293 You rub cheeks. 1018 01: 03: 35,170 --> 01: 03: 38,173 They are both very flirty, 1019 01: 03: 38,548 --> 01: 03: 39,841 so, so ... 1020 01: 03: 40,842 --> 01: 03: 43,470 I did not expect anything else. 1021 01: 03: 43,678 --> 01: 03: 45,180 What? 1022 01: 03: 45,347 --> 01: 03: 49,309 Such are the weekend workshops. 1023 01: 03: 49,684 --> 01: 03: 51,436 One goes to a dance event. 1024 01: 03: 51,561 --> 01: 03: 53,647 Maybe you dance with someone 1025 01: 03: 53,772 --> 01: 03: 55,232 and have a good chemistry together. 1026 01: 03: 55,440 --> 01: 03: 57,192 You feel each other, 1027 01: 03: 57,359 --> 01: 03: 58,485 it feels good. 1028 01: 03: 58,985 --> 01: 04: 01,196 Everything goes very fast, you know. 1029 01: 04: 02,239 --> 01: 04: 05,033 Then you say good bye, 1030 01: 04: 05,492 --> 01: 04: 08,119 and you do not know when to meet again. 1031 01: 04: 08,286 --> 01: 04: 10,121 In the meantime, there are other events, 1032 01: 04: 10,288 --> 01: 04: 12,207 you meet someone it feels good 1033 01: 04: 12,332 --> 01: 04: 14,501 Workshops, ie. 1034 01: 04: 15,252 --> 01: 04: 16,253 Weekend events. 1035 01: 04: 16,336 --> 01: 04: 17,496 You meet people you like. 1036 01: 04: 17,629 --> 01: 04: 19,130 Hoof... I'm not a fool. 1037 01: 04: 19,256 --> 01: 04: 21,216 I have not been in bed with them. 1038 01: 04: 21,675 --> 01: 04: 22,801 I'm just saying. 1039 01: 04: 23,426 --> 01: 04: 24,761 There are connections. 1040 01: 04: 30,690 --> 01: 04: 31,759 Stop... 1041 01: 04: 36,940 --> 01: 04: 39,609 This is one of my favorite quotes about Lindy Hop: 1042 01: 04: 39,859 --> 01: 04: 41,945 "The biggest cartoon wins." 1043 01: 05: 02,924 --> 01: 05: 04,884 We are crazy. That's the core. 1044 01: 05: 06,553 --> 01: 05: 08,138 Swing it! 1045 01: 05: 09,472 --> 01: 05: 12,225 Of all the dancers out there 1046 01: 05: 12,350 --> 01: 05: 13,977 are you probably the most silly? 1047 01: 05: 14,394 --> 01: 05: 15,603 Thank you. 1048 01: 05: 19,357 --> 01: 05: 20,900 Lindy Hoppere hates rules. 1049 01: 05: 21,735 --> 01: 05: 25,071 When I started my competition, I decided 1050 01: 05: 25,238 --> 01: 05: 28,658 To have as few rules as possible. 1051 01: 05: 32,078 --> 01: 05: 33,872 We'd rather see someone quiet up 1052 01: 05: 34,039 --> 01: 05: 36,458 and make fun in a way, 1053 01: 05: 36,624 --> 01: 05: 39,044 let everyone participate in the humor. 1054 01: 05: 39,127 --> 01: 05: 40,187 WELCOME TO HERRÄNG ARE YOU HAPPY? 1055 01: 05: 40,211 --> 01: 05: 41,338 YES! ENJOY LIFE! 1056 01: 05: 41,421 --> 01: 05: 42,547 NO... SO DANCE! 1057 01: 05: 42,630 --> 01: 05: 44,466 What the heck is herranged? 1058 01: 05: 44,549 --> 01: 05: 46,926 SWEDEN 1059 01: 05: 47,052 --> 01: 05: 50,805 For five weeks, you can dance around the clock. 1060 01: 05: 51,431 --> 01: 05: 52,974 Should I compare with something 1061 01: 05: 53,141 --> 01: 05: 56,311 it must be swing dance reply to Burning Man. 1062 01: 05: 56,478 --> 01: 06: 00,648 There are so many wild things happening in Herrang every night. 1063 01: 06: 01,441 --> 01: 06: 03,234 Frankie's favorite evening is cross-dressing, 1064 01: 06: 03,401 --> 01: 06: 07,238 and he wanted to go up in a dress, wig and lipstick ... 1065 01: 06: 07,322 --> 01: 06: 11,201 ... with his son, Chazz, in a dress and wig and lipstick, and with handbag 1066 01: 06: 11,326 --> 01: 06: 12,994 and they played these two 1067 01: 06: 13,161 --> 01: 06: 15,163 old ladies like that "aha, mm hmm," 1068 01: 06: 15,330 --> 01: 06: 16,373 when they came in. 1069 01: 06: 16,581 --> 01: 06: 21,127 DORRYS HOTEL ROOM LINDY FOCUS 1070 01: 06: 23,296 --> 01: 06: 25,673 During the day I make kidney transplants. 1071 01: 06: 28,551 --> 01: 06: 30,220 Once in a while to events 1072 01: 06: 30,303 --> 01: 06: 33,723 We held a huge party and bought a lot of beer. 1073 01: 06: 35,767 --> 01: 06: 39,104 Then we went to it for a couple of hours. 1074 01: 06: 48,696 --> 01: 06: 50,782 We are swing dancers. 1920s dance. 1075 01: 06: 51,032 --> 01: 06: 51,866 Okay. 1076 01: 06: 51,950 --> 01: 06: 54,828 These are our two hours of club music. 1077 01: 06: 54,911 --> 01: 06: 56,079 Yes. 1078 01: 06: 56,162 --> 01: 06: 57,831 Then it's back to the 20's. 1079 01: 06: 57,956 --> 01: 06: 59,207 Cool. 1080 01: 07: 38,121 --> 01: 07: 41,499 It is very satisfactory to enter a place 1081 01: 07: 41,749 --> 01: 07: 43,877 as a kind of mini celebrity. 1082 01: 07: 44,669 --> 01: 07: 47,172 But those people, I meet worldwide 1083 01: 07: 47,297 --> 01: 07: 49,507 I do not know when I see them again. 1084 01: 07: 49,674 --> 01: 07: 52,427 I give them all I can on that weekend, 1085 01: 07: 52,677 --> 01: 07: 55,346 but I can not stay and 1086 01: 07: 55,763 --> 01: 07: 57,348 care or nourish them. 1087 01: 08: 00,852 --> 01: 08: 03,104 Some people may be 1088 01: 08: 03,271 --> 01: 08: 05,523 stuck in the traveler's lifestyle 1089 01: 08: 05,940 --> 01: 08: 09,819 to avoid rooting. 1090 01: 08: 09,986 --> 01: 08: 11,863 As if they run away 1091 01: 08: 12,238 --> 01: 08: 15,408 from the thought of it. 1092 01: 08: 16,451 --> 01: 08: 19,370 And I say that, because I probably do it myself. 1093 01: 08: 21,080 --> 01: 08: 22,957 My profession and my job 1094 01: 08: 23,124 --> 01: 08: 26,920 is to teach people to connect, 1095 01: 08: 27,921 --> 01: 08: 30,882 but in my privacy 1096 01: 08: 31,049 --> 01: 08: 34,302 I'm having trouble 1097 01: 08: 34,511 --> 01: 08: 36,304 to do it yourself. 1098 01: 08: 39,516 --> 01: 08: 41,851 I live a lot of my life on the go ... 1099 01: 08: 41,935 --> 01: 08: 42,936 AIRPORT AIRPORT 1100 01: 08: 43,019 --> 01: 08: 45,271 ... and it's hard to have everyday friends 1101 01: 08: 45,438 --> 01: 08: 48,233 and keep in touch with them, you love. 1102 01: 08: 49,400 --> 01: 08: 50,944 Here in the fall 1103 01: 08: 51,069 --> 01: 08: 54,322 my grandfather died, 1104 01: 08: 54,447 --> 01: 08: 57,408 and I could not reach home and be with the family 1105 01: 08: 57,492 --> 01: 08: 59,953 or join the funeral, because I was in Germany. 1106 01: 09: 01,496 --> 01: 09: 03,331 As a 33 year old I should think 1107 01: 09: 03,498 --> 01: 09: 05,959 on pension savings and that kind of. 1108 01: 09: 06,042 --> 01: 09: 08,586 "What should I do, when I can not dance anymore? " 1109 01: 09: 13,800 --> 01: 09: 17,095 I have not done anything else 1110 01: 09: 17,262 --> 01: 09: 20,139 I could fall back on. 1111 01: 09: 20,306 --> 01: 09: 21,808 I have worked in coffee shops. 1112 01: 09: 22,976 --> 01: 09: 24,936 I could stay longer yet 1113 01: 09: 25,103 --> 01: 09: 29,399 and I've seen people do well up to the mid-40s. 1114 01: 09: 30,316 --> 01: 09: 32,443 You get to experience so much 1115 01: 09: 32,569 --> 01: 09: 34,737 probably more than other people, 1116 01: 09: 34,904 --> 01: 09: 36,739 but one must ask himself, 1117 01: 09: 36,906 --> 01: 09: 38,199 What is your priority in life? 1118 01: 09: 39,659 --> 01: 09: 41,661 Because we do not last forever 1119 01: 09: 42,161 --> 01: 09: 44,038 and we certainly can not dance forever. 1120 01: 09: 46,207 --> 01: 09: 47,917 In August 1121 01: 09: 48,334 --> 01: 09: 50,378 we had bought tickets to Seattle. 1122 01: 09: 50,545 --> 01: 09: 51,713 We just had to travel. 1123 01: 09: 51,879 --> 01: 09: 52,964 And... 1124 01: 09: 53,548 --> 01: 09: 56,676 It was actually during training, 1125 01: 09: 56,843 --> 01: 09: 59,095 I felt chest pain. 1126 01: 09: 59,846 --> 01: 10: 02,682 You thought, It was a swelling, not? 1127 01: 10: 02,849 --> 01: 10: 03,850 Yes. 1128 01: 10: 03,933 --> 01: 10: 05,518 From throw or something. 1129 01: 10: 05,685 --> 01: 10: 09,063 I did not think it could be cancer. 1130 01: 10: 09,480 --> 01: 10: 12,066 Because it was... 1131 01: 10: 12,859 --> 01: 10: 13,943 Yes. 1132 01: 10: 14,277 --> 01: 10: 15,278 Yes. 1133 01: 10: 16,821 --> 01: 10: 19,574 It was a big tumor, 1134 01: 10: 19,741 --> 01: 10: 22,035 the size of a large egg. 1135 01: 10: 22,910 --> 01: 10: 25,997 Doctors said I had to cancel my trip 1136 01: 10: 26,164 --> 01: 10: 28,166 and that I should be operated. 1137 01: 10: 29,709 --> 01: 10: 31,836 When Rebecka called for the first time, 1138 01: 10: 32,211 --> 01: 10: 34,213 I immediately understood, 1139 01: 10: 34,380 --> 01: 10: 37,925 that now a lot would happen bad things. 1140 01: 10: 38,092 --> 01: 10: 40,595 And that I would be afraid along the way. 1141 01: 10: 41,095 --> 01: 10: 44,265 So I decided well, that I had to 1142 01: 10: 44,766 --> 01: 10: 47,685 take one step at a time. 1143 01: 10: 49,979 --> 01: 10: 53,316 I started taking pictures of Rebecka, when she was ill 1144 01: 10: 53,483 --> 01: 10: 57,779 most because I had to make something creative. 1145 01: 11: 01,032 --> 01: 11: 06,579 And then the swing dance community could follow her 1146 01: 11: 06,746 --> 01: 11: 09,290 for suddenly we could not travel 1147 01: 11: 09,457 --> 01: 11: 12,502 We could no longer be anywhere. 1148 01: 11: 12,627 --> 01: 11: 14,504 And we could still ... 1149 01: 11: 15,213 --> 01: 11: 18,007 tag the support from the swingen unit. 1150 01: 11: 20,134 --> 01: 11: 21,552 On the image 1151 01: 11: 22,261 --> 01: 11: 24,972 you look like a warrior. 1152 01: 11: 29,644 --> 01: 11: 32,313 I hesitated at first, 1153 01: 11: 32,480 --> 01: 11: 35,108 because it was very revealing. 1154 01: 11: 35,316 --> 01: 11: 37,860 Me without hair ... 1155 01: 11: 38,027 --> 01: 11: 40,405 And with the operation and all that. 1156 01: 11: 41,781 --> 01: 11: 44,158 She was so strong, I think. 1157 01: 11: 44,367 --> 01: 11: 46,869 And I would show her. 1158 01: 11: 48,162 --> 01: 11: 53,084 We could still do something together. 1159 01: 11: 55,837 --> 01: 11: 57,880 My treatment took a very long time. 1160 01: 11: 58,381 --> 01: 12: 00,174 It took 300 days. 1161 01: 12: 00,883 --> 01: 12: 02,343 - Until? - Yes. 1162 01: 12: 03,052 --> 01: 12: 04,387 Okay good. 1163 01: 12: 05,012 --> 01: 12: 06,139 You keep track of it. 1164 01: 12: 09,600 --> 01: 12: 13,146 I thought often 1165 01: 12: 13,730 --> 01: 12: 16,774 I would not be able to dance again. 1166 01: 12: 16,941 --> 01: 12: 21,362 You have to appreciate it, one's body makes for one, 1167 01: 12: 22,029 --> 01: 12: 24,657 so do not take it for granted. 1168 01: 12: 35,710 --> 01: 12: 39,547 LINDY HOPS AMBASSADER 1169 01: 12: 45,511 --> 01: 12: 49,432 Even if I did not have one of Frankie's stuff, 1170 01: 12: 49,640 --> 01: 12: 52,143 I would still think of him all the time. 1171 01: 12: 57,190 --> 01: 13: 00,568 Frankie went away, and people praised him for three days 1172 01: 13: 01,152 --> 01: 13: 02,236 with dance. 1173 01: 13: 02,445 --> 01: 13: 05,865 I feel sorry for the people, There is dance today, 1174 01: 13: 06,032 --> 01: 13: 07,909 because they never get the option 1175 01: 13: 08,117 --> 01: 13: 11,829 to meet a person with personality like Frankie Manning. 1176 01: 13: 12,288 --> 01: 13: 16,000 His last wish was to see the dance return to Harlem, 1177 01: 13: 16,167 --> 01: 13: 19,170 and I said "Do not worry, it does." 1178 01: 13: 20,588 --> 01: 13: 22,048 From now on 1179 01: 13: 22,215 --> 01: 13: 24,842 is about learning people 1180 01: 13: 25,551 --> 01: 13: 27,178 The things he taught me. 1181 01: 13: 29,430 --> 01: 13: 31,015 When Frankie went away, 1182 01: 13: 31,140 --> 01: 13: 33,392 was a big part of my life. 1183 01: 13: 33,935 --> 01: 13: 36,687 I said "Frankie, what should I do? 1184 01: 13: 36,896 --> 01: 13: 38,439 How do I proceed? " 1185 01: 13: 38,648 --> 01: 13: 40,608 So I said to the universe, 1186 01: 13: 41,025 --> 01: 13: 44,570 and in my mind I always heard the same: 1187 01: 13: 45,196 --> 01: 13: 48,741 Frankie's voice said that "Dance. Dance." 1188 01: 13: 49,867 --> 01: 13: 52,119 I listened and I started dancing 1189 01: 13: 52,286 --> 01: 13: 54,205 and force myself out there. 1190 01: 13: 55,122 --> 01: 13: 58,417 It was so affirmative. It was wonderful. 1191 01: 13: 58,918 --> 01: 14: 02,713 It was such a good luck for me, and it is still. 1192 01: 14: 02,880 --> 01: 14: 05,216 It's the greatest happiness in my life. 1193 01: 14: 08,970 --> 01: 14: 10,471 Frankie always said 1194 01: 14: 10,888 --> 01: 14: 14,392 that there would be no war, if everyone danced. 1195 01: 14: 14,809 --> 01: 14: 17,311 I know that sounds a bit extreme or grandiost. 1196 01: 14: 17,478 --> 01: 14: 18,604 But I've seen it. 1197 01: 14: 19,105 --> 01: 14: 21,774 You can not have someone 1198 01: 14: 22,066 --> 01: 14: 23,609 you have danced with. 1199 01: 14: 29,532 --> 01: 14: 31,868 I'm annoyed the American culture, 1200 01: 14: 32,034 --> 01: 14: 35,079 that we have become so polarized as a nation, 1201 01: 14: 35,621 --> 01: 14: 39,417 and people will be yours that or something third, 1202 01: 14: 39,584 --> 01: 14: 44,255 and their friends are the same as yours or something third. 1203 01: 14: 44,380 --> 01: 14: 47,008 The phenomenal of swing dance is, 1204 01: 14: 47,174 --> 01: 14: 49,927 Everyone is in. 1205 01: 14: 52,722 --> 01: 14: 57,018 Do you see anyone on Facebook, you might think 1206 01: 14: 57,184 --> 01: 14: 59,538 "You goodest, it's their religious or political conviction? " 1207 01: 14: 59,562 --> 01: 15: 02,356 and then you think, "I would never talk to them. 1208 01: 15: 02,481 --> 01: 15: 03,649 Such a lifetime. " 1209 01: 15: 04,317 --> 01: 15: 08,195 But you could have the most beautiful connection on the dance floor. 1210 01: 15: 09,780 --> 01: 15: 13,034 We could go anywhere in the world, 1211 01: 15: 13,200 --> 01: 15: 15,369 Find the local Lindy Hoppers 1212 01: 15: 15,536 --> 01: 15: 18,456 and not only get advice where we were going to dance, 1213 01: 15: 18,623 --> 01: 15: 22,585 but have dinner with local dancers, 1214 01: 15: 22,752 --> 01: 15: 25,796 Find a place to stay, get a friend for life, 1215 01: 15: 25,963 --> 01: 15: 28,215 a spouse. Who knows? 1216 01: 15: 28,883 --> 01: 15: 30,927 Because you're Lindy Hopper, too 1217 01: 15: 31,093 --> 01: 15: 34,639 you will be automatically accepted and welcome. 1218 01: 15: 36,766 --> 01: 15: 38,476 I started seeing the community 1219 01: 15: 38,601 --> 01: 15: 41,687 Like much more than some people, there meets and dances. 1220 01: 15: 41,854 --> 01: 15: 43,564 We have a very strong band. 1221 01: 15: 43,731 --> 01: 15: 45,524 It is probably the most amazing thing about it, 1222 01: 15: 45,691 --> 01: 15: 48,319 you meet someone you do not know at all, and then I dance 1223 01: 15: 48,402 --> 01: 15: 50,821 And you feel that you have known each other whole life. 1224 01: 15: 54,200 --> 01: 15: 57,620 Maybe you have different policy opinions 1225 01: 15: 57,995 --> 01: 16: 01,374 or about firearms or sexual preferences 1226 01: 16: 01,540 --> 01: 16: 04,502 Maybe you are each other complete opposites. 1227 01: 16: 04,669 --> 01: 16: 07,880 In the end, it does not matter. 1228 01: 16: 08,172 --> 01: 16: 12,134 It's superficial things, which we are weighting ourselves with. 1229 01: 16: 12,259 --> 01: 16: 14,887 It's not them we are in heart and soul, 1230 01: 16: 15,346 --> 01: 16: 19,892 and the dance gets us closer our hearts and souls. 1231 01: 16: 31,115 --> 01: 16: 35,157 I'm really glad we joined. We did not do that last year. 1232 01: 16: 36,450 --> 01: 16: 39,578 Two pairs of daughters against each other. 1233 01: 16: 39,745 --> 01: 16: 41,747 Par 176! 1234 01: 16: 41,914 --> 01: 16: 43,165 176! 1235 01: 16: 43,332 --> 01: 16: 45,167 It is Rebecka and Emelie. 1236 01: 16: 45,418 --> 01: 16: 47,003 Judges should point 1237 01: 16: 47,169 --> 01: 16: 49,463 on the couple they think is best. 1238 01: 16: 49,588 --> 01: 16: 52,341 You dance against par 174. 1239 01: 16: 52,633 --> 01: 16: 55,386 In order to win, you must be thrown eight times 1240 01: 16: 55,928 --> 01: 16: 57,638 and win all the gloomy ones. 1241 01: 16: 58,514 --> 01: 16: 59,849 You know what's going to happen. 1242 01: 17: 00,016 --> 01: 17: 01,684 Take space on the floor. 1243 01: 17: 01,851 --> 01: 17: 05,271 I have no expectations to that competition. 1244 01: 17: 05,604 --> 01: 17: 09,025 RUNDE 1 1245 01: 17: 15,865 --> 01: 17: 18,868 RUNDE 4 1246 01: 17: 26,584 --> 01: 17: 29,670 RUNDE 6 1247 01: 17: 37,636 --> 01: 17: 40,556 Emelie and Rebecka! 1248 01: 17: 41,891 --> 01: 17: 46,353 ROUND 7 SEMI FINALS 1249 01: 18: 03,537 --> 01: 18: 07,458 The last year has been trading if so, 1250 01: 18: 07,625 --> 01: 18: 09,168 It has been more important, 1251 01: 18: 09,251 --> 01: 18: 12,046 because it's about life and not life. 1252 01: 18: 15,758 --> 01: 18: 17,510 What I'm Thinking Now 1253 01: 18: 17,593 --> 01: 18: 20,054 is that some people are taking this so serious. 1254 01: 18: 34,318 --> 01: 18: 37,530 It just feels great to be compete. 1255 01: 18: 38,447 --> 01: 18: 40,491 It's a blessing. 1256 01: 18: 53,879 --> 01: 18: 55,548 Let's drive. One two Three. 1257 01: 18: 56,173 --> 01: 18: 57,174 Bum! 1258 01: 18: 57,716 --> 01: 19: 01,720 Chance and Lisa go to the finals! 1259 01: 19: 01,804 --> 01: 19: 05,558 Give a big hand to both wonderful couples. 1260 01: 19: 10,604 --> 01: 19: 13,482 I'm proud of us. Especially myself, 1261 01: 19: 13,649 --> 01: 19: 14,900 very proud of myself. 1262 01: 19: 15,067 --> 01: 19: 16,360 Hurray. 1263 01: 19: 21,824 --> 01: 19: 23,951 Five, six, seven, eight. 1264 01: 19: 24,118 --> 01: 19: 26,036 One, two, turn, turn! 1265 01: 19: 26,328 --> 01: 19: 28,080 In, out, triple. 1266 01: 19: 28,247 --> 01: 19: 30,291 We are very passionate about 1267 01: 19: 30,457 --> 01: 19: 32,001 bringing people together. 1268 01: 19: 32,293 --> 01: 19: 34,461 We started three teams in September. 1269 01: 19: 35,462 --> 01: 19: 36,797 They tell everyone, 1270 01: 19: 36,964 --> 01: 19: 38,507 this is the highlight of the week. 1271 01: 19: 38,966 --> 01: 19: 39,967 Beat. 1272 01: 19: 43,179 --> 01: 19: 46,807 It's about creating something, where everyone can join. 1273 01: 19: 47,183 --> 01: 19: 49,476 Regardless of level, age, 1274 01: 19: 49,852 --> 01: 19: 51,729 because it's a community. 1275 01: 19: 51,896 --> 01: 19: 54,273 You can not have a community only with 20 year olds. 1276 01: 19: 55,065 --> 01: 19: 56,692 A community for everyone. 1277 01: 20: 05,571 --> 01: 20: 07,463 We were in Europe for the first time this year. 1278 01: 20: 07,563 --> 01: 20: 08,329 In february. 1279 01: 20: 08,412 --> 01: 20: 10,265 "It was really exciting. - It was amazing. 1280 01: 20: 10,289 --> 01: 20: 11,999 Norma Miller gave an interview. 1281 01: 20: 12,166 --> 01: 20: 13,167 It was so cool. 1282 01: 20: 13,334 --> 01: 20: 16,503 "Get up." She made us stand up 1283 01: 20: 16,670 --> 01: 20: 18,756 and made everyone laugh at us, 1284 01: 20: 18,923 --> 01: 20: 20,883 and she said, "if you get the option 1285 01: 20: 21,050 --> 01: 20: 23,219 to take lessons from them, then do it. " 1286 01: 20: 23,385 --> 01: 20: 25,054 My eyes ran into water, 1287 01: 20: 25,221 --> 01: 20: 27,181 Such, "Now you do not cry, man." 1288 01: 20: 28,515 --> 01: 20: 29,892 It was amazing. 1289 01: 20: 30,059 --> 01: 20: 32,061 Feeling good to hear it from someone, 1290 01: 20: 32,228 --> 01: 20: 33,938 you have worshiped and such. 1291 01: 20: 34,021 --> 01: 20: 35,231 As you look up to. 1292 01: 20: 37,524 --> 01: 20: 40,152 LIFE DOES NOT HAND TO WAIT TO THE STORM GOES OVER. 1293 01: 20: 40,277 --> 01: 20: 43,489 IT MAKES TO LEARN AT THEN IN THE RAIN. 1294 01: 20: 44,657 --> 01: 20: 47,660 Every time I enter my own home, 1295 01: 20: 47,743 --> 01: 20: 50,037 and see my hats and my shoes 1296 01: 20: 50,204 --> 01: 20: 51,205 I think ... 1297 01: 20: 52,706 --> 01: 20: 54,041 "It's me again." 1298 01: 20: 55,125 --> 01: 20: 56,752 I love New York City. 1299 01: 20: 56,877 --> 01: 21: 00,422 I want to be and live and work in New York City. 1300 01: 21: 00,589 --> 01: 21: 03,759 I'm ready to invest and create something 1301 01: 21: 03,884 --> 01: 21: 05,636 greater than myself 1302 01: 21: 05,886 --> 01: 21: 07,930 lasts longer than my body. 1303 01: 21: 08,806 --> 01: 21: 10,975 A large part of it is the dance company, 1304 01: 21: 11,141 --> 01: 21: 13,018 Michael Jagger and I work on. 1305 01: 21: 13,686 --> 01: 21: 16,021 I say no to work, 1306 01: 21: 16,105 --> 01: 21: 17,940 so I do not travel quite so much. 1307 01: 21: 18,357 --> 01: 21: 21,402 It involves things, I do not know anything about 1308 01: 21: 21,568 --> 01: 21: 25,990 like LLCC double-Q tax forms, and ... 1309 01: 21: 26,156 --> 01: 21: 28,450 Everyone is afraid of taxes ... 1310 01: 21: 28,951 --> 01: 21: 30,869 I love it because 1311 01: 21: 30,953 --> 01: 21: 33,622 It's a completely different satisfaction 1312 01: 21: 34,123 --> 01: 21: 38,711 Growing talent at one's base, 1313 01: 21: 39,169 --> 01: 21: 41,130 could look at it and say, "I have created." 1314 01: 21: 41,297 --> 01: 21: 43,549 Yes! 1315 01: 21: 43,632 --> 01: 21: 44,800 Bravo! 1316 01: 21: 44,883 --> 01: 21: 48,637 We also work with Harlem Swings and high school children in Harlem. 1317 01: 21: 49,221 --> 01: 21: 52,266 It is very exciting for the dancers, for me, for the company, 1318 01: 21: 52,433 --> 01: 21: 54,226 and also for the kids. 1319 01: 21: 54,393 --> 01: 21: 57,396 I think Frankie would be happy. 1320 01: 22: 02,109 --> 01: 22: 05,029 People always ask us 1321 01: 22: 05,195 --> 01: 22: 08,782 If you're okay now, if the cancer is gone. 1322 01: 22: 09,199 --> 01: 22: 13,162 And ... you can never say it's gone. 1323 01: 22: 13,329 --> 01: 22: 15,539 Because you do not know, 1324 01: 22: 15,664 --> 01: 22: 17,082 and it may come back. 1325 01: 22: 18,959 --> 01: 22: 21,545 If your security is threatened 1326 01: 22: 21,920 --> 01: 22: 24,131 People tend to 1327 01: 22: 24,298 --> 01: 22: 27,134 build some kind of ... 1328 01: 22: 27,301 --> 01: 22: 28,302 Security. 1329 01: 22: 28,469 --> 01: 22: 30,554 Yes. It's an illusion, but ... 1330 01: 22: 30,721 --> 01: 22: 32,348 Because you are never sure. 1331 01: 22: 33,349 --> 01: 22: 35,976 You have to live in the present 1332 01: 22: 36,101 --> 01: 22: 38,312 and take one day at a time. 1333 01: 22: 44,318 --> 01: 22: 46,612 Many think happiness is 1334 01: 22: 46,779 --> 01: 22: 50,032 a passive thing to wait for 1335 01: 22: 50,199 --> 01: 22: 52,993 that something happens, and then you will be happy. 1336 01: 22: 55,746 --> 01: 22: 59,500 The idea that it's a step away, that it is out of reach. 1337 01: 23: 02,002 --> 01: 23: 03,962 You can go dancing and dancing 1338 01: 23: 04,129 --> 01: 23: 07,424 and be reminded that that happiness is always inside you. 1339 01: 23: 11,553 --> 01: 23: 14,973 I was lucky to meet Count Basie, 1340 01: 23: 15,140 --> 01: 23: 17,643 and I would like to share his philosophy, 1341 01: 23: 17,810 --> 01: 23: 20,145 That applies to everything in life. 1342 01: 23: 20,312 --> 01: 23: 22,773 He said, "hold out" 1343 01: 23: 23,440 --> 01: 23: 24,817 hold out, 1344 01: 23: 25,275 --> 01: 23: 26,860 "hold out." Six words. 1345 01: 23: 27,277 --> 01: 23: 30,322 Or two words three times. 1346 01: 23: 32,533 --> 01: 23: 33,992 It wakes you 1347 01: 23: 34,159 --> 01: 23: 36,995 The heart beats faster, you breathe deeper. 1348 01: 23: 37,538 --> 01: 23: 40,416 You're laughing. You shout. 1349 01: 23: 41,333 --> 01: 23: 42,876 And it's alive. 1350 01: 23: 44,294 --> 01: 23: 45,712 It's alive. 1351 01: 23: 46,839 --> 01: 23: 48,841 We have been in Frankie Manning's vicinity ... 1352 01: 23: 49,007 --> 01: 23: 50,367 FRANKIE MANNINGS COMMEMORATION 1353 01: 23: 50,467 --> 01: 23: 52,803 ... and he gave us his spirit 1354 01: 23: 52,886 --> 01: 23: 55,764 to heal the world and make it a better place. 1355 01: 23: 55,931 --> 01: 23: 57,182 God bless you! 1356 01: 23: 57,349 --> 01: 24: 00,436 Dance! Dance! Dance! 1357 01: 24: 01,895 --> 01: 24: 04,273 One two. One two three four. 1358 01: 24: 35,554 --> 01: 24: 41,143 TO BINGHAM 1359 01: 28: 45,549 --> 01: 28: 47,549