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Swing
state
Dance contest
lindy hops into
Park Slope
By Jessica Parks
Brooklyn Paper
They’ll make your dancin’ dreams
come true!
Brooklynites can get down with
some of the world’s best swingers next
weekend, when the American Lindy Hop
Championships jitterbug their way onto
the multiple dance floors of the Grand
Prospect Hall. The three-day dance extravaganza,
running Nov. 8–10, is open
to anyone who is interested in the vintage
dance style, whether they want to
coaster step their way to the top prize
or just spectate from the sidelines, said
the event’s director.
“The American Lindy Hop Championships
is a friendly atmosphere,” said
Paulette Brockington. “You don’t need
experience, and all levels of dancers attend.
Many non-dancers come just to
watch and listen to the music.”
For those new to swing, there will
be plenty of opportunities to learn the
steps. Each afternoon, experts will offer
a wide variety of classes and workshops
in the dance genre that swept the
nation during the first half of the 20th
century — and, to a lesser extent, during
the swing revival of the late ’90s.
Jack F / Getty Images
In the swing of things: The American Lindy Hop Championships,
swinging into Grand Prospect Hall from Nov. 8-10, will be open to anyone
who wants to watch — or to join in!
DANCE
The American Lindy Hop Championships
at Grand Prospect Hall 263
Prospect Ave. between Fifth and
Sixth avenues in Park Slope, (718)
788–0777, artspectrum.org/alhc.
htm. Nov. 8–10. $15–$25 (spectator
only); $25–$90 (competition);
$40–$60 (single day social dance
and classes); $130–$339 (all-weekend
passes).
A slew of performances will be held
throughout the hoppin’ weekend, with
dancers showing off their best Shim
Sham — known as tap dance’s national
anthem — to open up the weekend
on Friday night. The evening will
also feature open dancing sessions, a
“Cabaret” competition for non-swing
styles, and contests in which couples
show off their best choreographed routines
in various dance styles, including
West Coast Swing and Carolina Shag,
styles that are returning to the competition
for the first time in 21 years.
One notable new event this year will
be the “Truckin’ Division” competition,
where solo dancers must show off their
steps while carrying a heavy metal tray.
The division nods to a tradition in dance
halls of the 1920s, said Brockington.
“It is one in which solo jazz dancers
dance with trays, as waiters did during
the Harlem Renaissance to get big
tips,” she said.
A tribute to swing legend Mama
Lu Parks will close out the weekend
on Sunday.
“Mama Lu Parks carried on the legacy
of the Lindy Hop and the Savoy Ballroom
from the 1960s until her death,” said Brockington.
“Her dancers toured the world and
also danced for three presidents.”
The Championship has happened annually
for the last 22 years, but this is
its first time in Brooklyn. The Grand
Prospect Hall’s history as a dance hall
during the Roaring ’20s made it an attractive
venue, said Brockington.
Dancers can sign up to compete in
any of the weekend’s 13 dance contests
until Nov. 6.
By Ben Verde
Brooklyn Paper
Oh, what a night!
The retro rock ’n’ roll group Under
the Streetlamp will bring its
throwback tunes and shiny suits to On
Stage at Kingsborough on Nov. 9 for a
set jammed with hits from the middle
of the 20th century, in hopes of taking
audience members back to the carefree
days of their youth, said one of the band’s
founding members.
“It’s an opportunity for the audience
to forget their troubles and remember
where they were when they first heard
it,” said Shonn Wiley.
Under the Streetlamp at On Stage
at Kingsborough (2001 Oriental Blvd.
at Oxford Street in Manhattan Beach,
www.onstageatkingsborough.org).
Nov. 9 at 8 pm. $34–$39.
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