Boogie Woogie swing dance Sep 2009 - Inge Harkestad - Marianne Beck

Fast swing dancing, 3 years on: A new improvised, unchoreographed boogie woogie dance show at our club. Boogie woogie is a swing dance closely related to lindy hop. You can dance boogie woogie to boogie woogie piano music, blues, jazz, rock & roll, rockabilly, R&B, neo swing - or anything else that swings or grooves. :-)

Dancers: Marianne Beck (follower) and Inge Harkestad (leader). Place: Bardar Swing Club, Oslo, Norway. We don't know which song is put on before it starts, but we've heard the song before - or at least other versions of it.

Song: Black and White Thunderbird. Artists: Fred Mollin, Britt Savage, Jaime Babbitt, Blue Sea Band. Album: Lightning McQueen's Fast Tracks (2006)

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• swing
• boogie
• woogie
• boogiewoogie
• dance
• dancing
• swingdancing
• lindy
• lindyhop
• improvise
• improvisation
• strictly
• lead
• follow
• unchoreographed
• demonstration
• show
• showdancing
• showcase
• Baardar
• oppvisning
• dans
• danse

[trishie99]

hi inge i love to learn this boogie woogie foot work. can u create this foot work instruction on you tube please?

[ingeharkestad]

@trishie99 Thanks for your suggestion, Trishie. We'll consider making an instructional video, but I can't promise anything right off the bat. :)

Briefly, the basic footwork uses 6 counts: 1-2: single step, single step, 3-4: triple step, 5-6: triple step (Triple step: 3 steps on 2 beats). Common variations include:

a) exchanging 1-2 with a kick ball change,

b) using 8 counts (like lindy hop): 1-2: single step, single step, 3-4: triple step, 5-6: single step, single step, 7-8: triple step.

[LynxEng]

err I can't even work out how to post never mind the steps lol

[ingeharkestad]

@LynxEng :)

[twistomama]

This is so cool...I am one of the writers of this song...my group The Delicates (Arleen lanzotti, Peggy Santiglia and I Denise Ferri wrote and recorded Black and White Thunderbird in 1959..

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[LynxEng]

@ingeharkestad 

[LynxEng]

@ingeharkestad

[TheQueenOfCountry]

I love to learn this one, Wow I love it!!!

[twistomama]

Thanks again for getting back to me..and keep up the great work..you are fabulous!!!

denise

[twistomama]

Thank you so much for getting back to me ..It is so nice to know our song is well known by boogie woogie dancers throughout Europe..You two are fabulous dancers...I love watching you perform.

Denise:)

[ingeharkestad]

We are Norwegians and live in Oslo.

In this particular case the DJ chose the song for us, but we've heard the original version a lot of times.

The World Rock'n'Roll Confederation (WRRC) who's in charge of boogie woogie dance competitions, is maintaining a list of approved competition songs. Black and White Thunderbird with the Delicates has been on this list since the list originated more than a decade ago. Your original version is thus well known by boogie woogie dancers all over Europe. :)