Your Guide To The Best Swing Dance DVDs Starting With The Highest Reviews

Swing Dance DVDs

The three main dance forms of swing are Lindy Hop, West Coast Swing, and East Coast Swing. However, there are many other dances of this kind, such as SwingJive and Balboa.

Lindy Hop evolved in the late 1920s and early 1930s as the original swing dance. Its main draw is the style's openess to improvisation, and ability to easily adapt to include steps from other 8-count, and 6-count Swing styles.

"Lindy" is most often danced to jazz, but ambitious dancers often use it to dance to the blues, rock & roll, and even some forms of hip-hop! Almost anything goes.

West Coast Swing was developed in the 1930s and 1940s as a stylistic variation. Followers stay in a slot, which reduces their ability to move left and right, but improves their ability to spin left and right. West Coast Swing is danced with blues and rock and roll music.

East Coast Swing is a simpler 6-count variation. Also known as Triple-Step Swing, 6-Count Swing, Single-Step Swing, Rock-a-billy, or Jitterbug. East coast swing has very simple structure and footwork along with basic moves and styling. East-coast swing is popular for its forgiving, yet elegant nature, and is often danced to slow, medium, or fast tempo jazz, blues, or rock & roll.