Watching swing dancers on the dance floor transports you back to the 1930s, when swing was at its peak. The music is big band ...

DILLON -To add a swing to your step, join local dance instructors at the Dillon Ampitheatre to learn the Jitterbug. These free dance clinics run Thursdays through Aug. 12 from 6-8 p.m., and swing ...

Above, junior Adam Valle spins High School English Teacher Jaclyn Wagner on May 19. A group of students and the teacher learned swing dance moves the Tuesday before prom.

The dance team is called the Eight Week Wonders. For the next 2 minutes 4 seconds, team members perform, more or less in unison, an exuberant series of swing-dancing moves with names like the whip, ...

Around Kansas City, there are both social dances and group classes that welcome beginners. Kansas City has been swinging since the 1930s and a vibrant dance community keeps the tradition active.

Swing dancing, one of the only authentic American dance forms, was created in the 1920s in Harlem, N.Y. The dance saw a massive revival in the late 1990s with the most unlikely of circumstances: a Gap ...