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  • VDA WORKSHOPS
    • SWING GROOVE SPECIAL
    • MOVERS & GROOVERS United // BERLIN
    • An Other MUSICALITY Workshop // BERLIN
    • ARCHIVE >
      • THE DEAL about Leading & Following // BERLIN
      • SPINS & TURNS for Followers // Berlin
      • THE DEAL about Leading & Following // BERLIN
      • MABLE LEE SOLO JAZZ SPECIAL // BERLIN
      • About Falling In Love With The Little Things // BERLIN
      • MABLE LEE SOLO JAZZ SPECIAL // BERLIN
      • About Falling In Love With The Little Things // BERLIN
      • PRETTY PRACTICAL ARMS // BERLIN
      • NEW YEAR OLD JAZZ // BERLIN
      • SWIVEL SESSION II // BERLIN
      • SWIVEL SESSION II // BERLIN
      • SWIVEL SESSION // BERLIN
      • DANCING SOLO JAZZ // BERLIN
      • SOLO JAZZ – RHYTHM, ARMS & HANDS // BERLIN
      • LET DANCE
      • SWING OUT for followers // BERLIN
      • SWIVEL SPECIAL // BERLIN
      • DANCING SOLO JAZZ // BERLIN
      • SWIVEL SPECIAL // BERLIN
      • DANCING SOLO JAZZ // BERLIN
      • About Falling In Love With The Little Things // BERLIN
      • BEAUTY & DUTY of the Lindy Hop FOLLOWER // BERLIN
      • About Falling In Love With The Little Things // BERLIN
      • The BIG APPLE Jam Sessions // BERLIN
      • To Play With Rhythm // BERLIN
      • THE DEAL about Leading & Following // BERLIN
      • BEAUTY & DUTY of the LINDY HOP FOLLOWER // BERLIN
      • The BIG APPLE Jam Sessions
      • BEAUTY & DUTY of the LINDY HOP FOLLOWER // BERLIN
      • RHYTHM, oh, RHYTHM // BERLIN
      • DANCING SOLO JAZZ // BERLIN
      • THE DEAL about Leading & Following // BERLIN
      • THE DEAL about Leading & Following // BERLIN
      • DANCING SOLO JAZZ // BERLIN
      • JUST SWINGIN' IT // BERLIN
      • ON IMPROVISING
      • ON INTERACTING
      • A JAZZASS ROUTINE
      • RHYTHM & EASE // AUTHENTIC JAZZ CLASS in BERLIN
      • ON IMPROVISING July ’15
      • TRUST YOUR FEET // BERLIN
      • TRUST YOUR FEET // BERLIN
      • BEAUTY & DUTY of the SWING DANCE FOLLOW // BRUSSELS
  • HAVANA in HARLEM
    • HAVANA in HARLEM II >
      • HAVANA in HARLEM II deutsch
    • HAVANA in HARLEM I >
      • HAVANA in HARLEM I deutsch
      • Mehr über RUMBA
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  • A VERY SERIOUS SERIES ON SWING
THE VINTAGE DANCE ADVENTURE

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About Swing
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Swing is an originally African-American artform of music and dance that reached its peak of popularity from mid 1930s to early 1940s. Its roots can be traced back to (West-)African dances and music, within the early jazz of New Orleans, and just as much in swing music. The epicentre of swing was the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, New York from late 1920s on until well into the 50s.

Free-spirited and joyful, swing was the antidote to the hardship the African-American community was facing everyday. Swing was their creation of a safe space, it embodied freedom and self-expression, a place to be your own person. Swing music giants like Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson or Fats Waller as well as dancers like Al Minns, Leon James, Norma Miller, Mable Lee or Frankie Manning were manifesting this expression of sheer joy and authenticity to its fullest. The phenomenon they created is truly unique and a treasure to be kept alive and swinging.

I am Johanna Neubert, a dancer from Berlin. "The Vintage Dance Adventure" is my attempt to spread the joys and values of swing, with deepest respect for its history, roots and culture of origin, which is Black culture. Sharing the essence of swing as best as I can is what drives my work. I try to convey that special mixture swing offers: its freedom, its vitality, its joy, and its deeply musical, rhythmical, expressive spirit.
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