What light through yonder windows break, and does it have a beat you can you dance to? This is the question posed by St. Paul’s Lutheran School’s spring play, “Jitterbug Juliet” a 1940s spin on “Romeo ...

Plus: MacArthur “Genius” grant winner performs at Macalester; a joyful evening of pop with Cheikh Ibra Fam; ‘Love and Other Things That Ruined My Life’; and more. Senegalese singer and ...

While spinning under the Sun Dome, The Country Dancing Devils offer a new twist on old traditions. Every Tuesday night, students are taught classic line and swing dancing. Country dancing is back in ...

Swing dancing, one of the only authentic American dance forms, was created in the 1920s in Harlem, N.Y. The dance saw a massive revival in the late 1990s with the most unlikely of circumstances: a Gap ...

For students interested in dance, the University of Minnesota’s U-Swing club offers an educational space to explore swing dancing and its history. The group meets weekly, providing students with an ...

Pink lights illuminated the dance floor in the lobby of the Jackson N. Sasser Fine Arts Hall at Santa Fe College on Friday night where about 50 lovers of swing dance turned out for a Valentine’s Day ...

Clarinetist Benny Goodman was in the midst of a faltering national tour with his young orchestra when he arrived in Oakland late in the Depression-ridden summer of 1935 for a brief run at McFadden's ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. When it comes to cardio workouts, swing ...

Friday night at The Farm means a dance floor peppered with cowboy hats and flannels. Little lightbulbs hung above the crowded dance floor among the cardboard candy hearts that were put up for ...

It was a little hard to hear him over the sound of “In the Mood,” but Mark Nelson had an explanation of why a big crowd is drawn to Concord every two months to dance to music that’s nearly a century ...