Today’s Google Doodle celebrates swing dancer Frankie Manning on what would have been his 102nd birthday. Know as the Ambassador of the Lindy Hop, Manning took swing dancing to new levels by ...

Peter Loggins and Amy Johnson hold up a sign remembering Lindy Hop pioneer Frankie Manning who passed away Monday, April 27, 2009. Before there was "Dancing with the Stars," "So you think you can ...

Frankie “Musclehead" Manning, a Harlem dancer and Tony Award-winning choreographer widely celebrated as one of the pioneers of the Lindy Hop, a breathlessly acrobatic swing dance style of the 1930s ...

NEW YORK — Frankie Manning, a master of swing-era dance who went from the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem to Broadway and Hollywood, and then after a long break enjoyed a globe-trotting second career as an ...

Swing dance enthusiasts from around the world are arriving in New York to celebrate the 100th birthday of the late Frankie Manning, who helped popularize the dance craze Lindy Hop. Advertisement ...

Frankie Manning turns 94 next month, but look out.He's still "Hellzapoppin'" on the dance floor, just like the 1941 movie he and his Lindy Hoppers dance crew blew through with dazzling aerials and ...

Special Saturday Night Swing Dance celebrating 'Frankie Manning's Birthday'. Frankie is one of the Lindy Hop greats of the Swing Era, who also played a key role in the international Lindy Hop revival ...

May I have this dance? Aurelia Santos invites us to join the festivities. A-one and a-two and a-you know what to do. Any lindy hopper worth their swing out recognizes those as the words of the great ...

When Mike Thibault finished high school in 1995, his graduation present from his grandparents was a series of ballroom dance classes. Thibault was an aspiring saxophonist, and he knew a slew of ...

Frankie Manning, who pioneered the Lindy Hop in the 1930s, won a Tony a half-century later and inspired swing dancers around the world, died yesterday at Lenox Hill Hospital from complications of ...