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.

As two dancers clasp hands and spin across the dance floor, their movements perfectly correlate with a black-and-white video of the same dance being performed nearly 100 years before. Last Saturday, ...

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.

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, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Dancing feet will fill Purdue Memorial Union's South Ballroom on Friday (Feb. 4) when Purdue Bands stages its annual Jazz Swing Dance that's open to the campus and the community ...

It was a little hard to hear him over the sound of “In the Mood,” but Mark Nelson had an explanation of why a big crowd is drawn to Concord every two months to dance to music that’s nearly a century ...