Lindy Style names

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A couple of terminology questions regarding Lindy Hop styles:

1. Is Hollywood synonymous with Smooth?
2. Is Groove synonymous with Savoy?

I've been going around thinking that Hollywood and Smooth are two names for the same style. I've also been going around thinking that Groove is a subset of Savoy, not another name for the same thing. Then I thought I probably haven't gathered enough information to go around thinking these things. Can someone clear this up for me?

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Hollywood and Smooth are not the same.

Smooth style is the precursor or the "missing link" if you will between Lindy Hop and West Coast Swing, but certainly qualifies as lindy hop. It is a later incarnation of lindy hop than "Savoy" style, what Dean Collins and his group were dancing and teaching in Los Angeles after the fifties.

Hollywood is a modern interpretation of Los Angeles style Lindy Hop from the fourties, specifically the way it was shown in the Hollywood movies from that time period and the smooth style those same dancers were still dancing int he nineties.

Groove, is not a real style at all... it is a name that has been assigned to freestyle swing which is based in lindy hop but mixes all swing styles together. It is not a name that the vast majority of people who dance freestyle swing use to describe their own dancing but one which was assigned to them by other lindy hoppers. It is often used as an insult as it is as neutral descriptor.