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Jitterbug and Swing Dance were synomonous at one point. THe general belief is that it was a perjoritive, some say applied to white dancers mimicing black lindy hoppers, others say one given to all dancers by musicians, etc. etc. Except for those people who are really um... "rectal retentive" about history it doesn't really matter. What does matter is that across the US the term Jitterbug pretty replaced the name for Lindy Hop Hop outside of the tri-state area by 1940, though it was refering to the same dance done in Harlem.
Later when the popular music changed suitably enough the dance had drifted and evolved to match it, and jitterbug was still used as the name. Most lindy hoppers these days shun the label jitterbug mostly due to the association with this form of swing dance that was most often danced to non-swinging music of the Rock and Roll variety.
By the early fifties jitterbug had some definite distinctions from lindy hop, namely the most oft repeated step to link patterns was a six count step instead of the eight count swing out/whip/lindy turn, the posture, much more upright, and the rhythm, the triple steps barely being swung if at all.
The Groovie Movie is Lindy Hop by the distinctions of physical movement and partner dynamic, not the European dance called Boogie Woogie, nor is it what we tend to think of today as Jitterbug. Boogie Woogie music is a form of blues based music based in the VERY early 20th Cen. The European Dance of the same name is danced most often to rock and roll/jump-blues. Boogie Steps or Vernacular Jazz or Swing Jazz (all the same thing) should not be confused witht he European partnered swing dance. The Groovie Movie contains Boogie Steps it does not contain the European dance form.
Marcus and Baerbel are probably the most well known teachers of Boogie Woogie in the US and there love of old clips and stylistic similarities to the dancers of the Groovie Movie when they do Lindy Hop may be responsible for any confusion.
Jitterbug and Swing Dance were synomonous at one point. THe general belief is that it was a perjoritive, some say applied to white dancers mimicing black lindy hoppers, others say one given to all dancers by musicians, etc. etc. Except for those people who are really um... "rectal retentive" about history it doesn't really matter. What does matter is that across the US the term Jitterbug pretty replaced the name for Lindy Hop Hop outside of the tri-state area by 1940, though it was refering to the same dance done in Harlem.
Later when the popular music changed suitably enough the dance had drifted and evolved to match it, and jitterbug was still used as the name. Most lindy hoppers these days shun the label jitterbug mostly due to the association with this form of swing dance that was most often danced to non-swinging music of the Rock and Roll variety.
By the early fifties jitterbug had some definite distinctions from lindy hop, namely the most oft repeated step to link patterns was a six count step instead of the eight count swing out/whip/lindy turn, the posture, much more upright, and the rhythm, the triple steps barely being swung if at all.
The Groovie Movie is Lindy Hop by the distinctions of physical movement and partner dynamic, not the European dance called Boogie Woogie, nor is it what we tend to think of today as Jitterbug. Boogie Woogie music is a form of blues based music based in the VERY early 20th Cen. The European Dance of the same name is danced most often to rock and roll/jump-blues. Boogie Steps or Vernacular Jazz or Swing Jazz (all the same thing) should not be confused witht he European partnered swing dance. The Groovie Movie contains Boogie Steps it does not contain the European dance form.
Marcus and Baerbel are probably the most well known teachers of Boogie Woogie in the US and there love of old clips and stylistic similarities to the dancers of the Groovie Movie when they do Lindy Hop may be responsible for any confusion.
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Thanks for the information d nice, very much appreciated.