Frankie Manning's dancing skills made him famous twice (2016)
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Re: Frankie Manning's dancing skills made him famous twice (2016)
#2Second time seeing lindy hop related thread on HN. Are there many practitioners here? Very excited and sad as I don't see I can go back to this hobby anytime soon.
Re: Frankie Manning's dancing skills made him famous twice (2016)
#3Second time seeing lindy hop related thread on HN. Are there many practitioners here? Very excited and sad as I don't see I can go back to this hobby anytime soon.
At least one here :-) I've been to Herrang a few times as well, but unfortunately after Frankie Manning's retirement. I got to listen to Dawn Hampton though which was great. It's pretty popular with tech people (at least in Australian and UK circles) so I'm sure there are more of us on HN.
(Herrang is a small village (pop 400) in Sweden which becomes an international swing dancing festival / camp for 5 weeks each summer)
Frankie Manning has a good autobiography published - https://frankiemanning.com/book.php well worth reading for an idea of what his days looked like. He was at some historic events like battle of the bands with Count Basie and Duke Ellington.
Re. missing the dancing: I know it's not the same as the real thing, but have you tried joining some "local" zoom classes? I found it really fun to drop in to a random one across the world.
Re: Frankie Manning's dancing skills made him famous twice (2016)
#4Second time seeing lindy hop related thread on HN. Are there many practitioners here? Very excited and sad as I don't see I can go back to this hobby anytime soon.
Checking in from Melbourne, similarly missing it.
Re: Frankie Manning's dancing skills made him famous twice (2016)
#5Second time seeing lindy hop related thread on HN. Are there many practitioners here? Very excited and sad as I don't see I can go back to this hobby anytime soon.
Lindy Hopper from France here! Looking forward to dance again... someday.
Re: Frankie Manning's dancing skills made him famous twice (2016)
#6Second time seeing lindy hop related thread on HN. Are there many practitioners here? Very excited and sad as I don't see I can go back to this hobby anytime soon.
At least one here :-) I've been to Herrang a few times as well, but unfortunately after Frankie Manning's retirement. I got to listen to Dawn Hampton though which was great. It's pretty popular with tech people (at least in Australian and UK circles) so I'm sure there are more of us on HN. (Herrang is a small village (pop 400) in Sweden which becomes an international swing dancing festival / camp for 5 weeks each sum…
Yeah, Herräng is actually a big networking event for engineers and scientists disguised as a dance camp.
Re: Frankie Manning's dancing skills made him famous twice (2016)
#7Went to Herrang once, took many a workshop with Frankie in NYC back in the day. He was amazing.
Can't wait to get back to Swing 46 someday!
Re: Frankie Manning's dancing skills made him famous twice (2016)
#8Second time seeing lindy hop related thread on HN. Are there many practitioners here? Very excited and sad as I don't see I can go back to this hobby anytime soon.
Yup! Took up learning before I got married, continued for 5 years after :)
Re: Frankie Manning's dancing skills made him famous twice (2016)
#9Second time seeing lindy hop related thread on HN. Are there many practitioners here? Very excited and sad as I don't see I can go back to this hobby anytime soon.
Yup! Took up learning before I got married, continued for 5 years after :)
The dancing that is... The marriage is still very much in progress
Re: Frankie Manning's dancing skills made him famous twice (2016)
#10Fellow Lindy hopper here from Romania.