Foxtrot (Swing Walk) at the Savoy Ballroom

[Crowmangegus]

OK. I am after the dance the others are dancing. what is that dance called where you use your legs kinda like riverdance but it is not riverdance it is a kind of a foxtrot I think. ??? Anybody?

[Haydare]

@Crowmangegus The jive maybe?

[DancerPassion]

@Crowmangegus Quickstep ; )

[HaoleTrio]

Given the scarcity of video - How would this so-called "Swing Walk" compare to the earlier dance "The Peabody"?

[SwingingInTheHood]

From SwingStreet . com: "The Peabody was named after William Frank Peabody, a N.Y. Police Lieutenant (or Fireman) who loved to dance around 1915, shortly after the invention of the Fox-Trot. The Peabody was basically a jaunty type fast fox-trot, done to ragtime music . It is based more around a dance position (called the "English") . The One Step and Peabody went on to become the (modern) Quick-step."

Both Frankie Manning and Norma Miller say they did "Peabody" at the Savoy.