Online video: Chester Whitmore teaches basic Lindy Hop at the Historic Dunbar Hotel in Los Angeles. He is assisted by the lovely Lynette Fitzgerald. This course also features some pretty funky big band music.

Segment 0 Introduction / Footwork: Steppin in Time, The Attitude, The Pattern Segment 1 Handwork / Signaling / Leading and Following Segment 2 Basic Lindy / Swingout / Lindy Circle Segment 3 Lindy Turns: Outside, Inside, Tuck, Passthrough, Outside Retrieving Segment 4 Swing Rhythm Steps in Place Segment 5 Combination 1: Man's Swingout, Basic Slide, Free Spin, Susie Q Segment 6 Combination 2: Traveling Charleston, Bump & Grind, Ebony Step Segment 7 Everything we know (from this series). If you have any questions or comments regarding this course, you may post them in our online discussion forum. Dancing since 1974, Chester Whitmore originally studied to be a cinematographer. An encounter with legendary tap dancer Fayard Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers changed his life. Mr. Whitmore is considered one of the premier archivists of vernacular dance. His life's work is the preservation of the traditions of black dance from its roots in African dance taking us through the slave dances, swing, lindy, jive, be-bop, jazz and tap eras and into present day hip hop traditions.

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