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In the nearly two-hour show, featuring Prince’s dance company, ZooNation, she draws on freestyle dance, salsa, lindy hop, street dance and other styles to bring to life 27 songs.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2024

Earlier generations linked dances such as the lindy hop and the jitterbug to miscegenation and truancy and general wildness; they outlawed dancing altogether.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2020

Now 77, he was there that night in 1969, he said in a phone call, “dancing the lindy hop with my queer friends”.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2016

Well, "lindy" and "minker" – and all the other Sainsbury's customers who snapped up this "half-price" deal – you might be wondering now if you have been hoodwinked.

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2013

Miss Josie was a terrific dancer, and she was teaching Laney how to lindy hop.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser