Venice Beach Swing Dancers (Balboa) (September 1938)

---A Swungover (tm) collection of different snippets of "the Venice Beach clip," (some of which are repeats). Film shows a group of LA Swing dancers probably promoting a local California swing dance contest in September, 1938.

The dancers doing LA Swing (early form of Bal-Swing) are Hal and Betty Takier (man in white top, black pants, does the move that takes them to the ground); Jack Helwig and Genevieve Grazis (couple in all white); Richard "Dick" Landry in the striped top, dancing with the shorter unknown woman; Collegiate Shag couple is Connie Wydell and possibly Barbara Plum.

This style of dancing is today placed under the blanket term Balboa, though these original dancers thought of Balboa as a separate kind of dance (what we now refer to as Pure Balboa.)

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[dbjones00]

Even without music the footwork is amazing! Great Balboa and Collegiate Shag dancing!

[damnation333 .]

Amazing! Thank you so much for putting this together!

[creativecompanion]

Sure would be lovely if you could add some music to this video! Gorgeous footage! Thanks for sharing!

[kaastel]

They seem to be respecting line-of-dance in a ballroom type fashion, which I haven't seen associated with swing before.