![]() One dance in particular, the jitterbug dance, was quite popular in the African American community, particularly in the Harlem nightclubs in New York City. Stimulated by the presence of great dancers and the best black bands, music at the Savoy was largely Swinging Jazz and the dance moves seen there were cutting edge for their time. ![]() Nightly dancing attracted many of the best, most innovative dancers in the New York and surrounding area. The Savoy was an immediate success with its block-long dance floor and a raised double bandstand. The infamous Cotton Club jazz club had already been open for three years. On March 26, 1926, the Savoy Ballroom opened its doors in New York. In fact, the term jitterbug comes from an early 20th-centry slang term used to describe alcoholics who suffered from the “jitters”. Unflatteringly, the Jitterbug dance term came to be associated with swing dancers who danced without any control or knowledge of proper dance moves, such uncontrolled dance movements because typically the dancers were drunk. Popular in the 1940’s, these Swing dance styles originated two decades earlier in African American dance clubs in and around Harlem, New York. Introduction Various types of swing dances, including the Lindy Hop, Jive, the Big Apple, West Coast Swing, the Whip, the Push, and the East Coast Swing, were referred to as the “jitterbug” dance. ![]() Torrent Wham The Final Torrent Average ratng: 7,2/10 52votes ![]()
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