Boogie-Woogie Footwork Variations

Despite being danced to fast tempo music, Boogie-Woogie dancers often include complicated footwork variations that involve rapid stepping. The sequence below is a footwork variation that can be done by either dancer (the steps are given for the leader, the follower's steps are mirrored left-right), particularly in combination with the Boogie-Woogie Open Basic.


front view reverse view facing view
&. S:SlFR Start with the dancer's weight on their right foot. The dancer slides along the floor forward on their right foot.
1. S:HL The dancer takes a step with their left foot back and behind their other foot.
&. S:SlFL The dancer slides along the floor forward on their left foot.
2. S:HR The dancer takes a step with their right foot back and behind their other foot.
3. S:HL The dancer takes a step with their left foot back and behind their other foot.
&. S:RR The dancer replaces their weight on their right foot.
4. S:TL The dancer closes their left foot to their right foot.
5. S:HR The dancer takes a step with their right foot back and behind their other foot.
&. S:RL The dancer replaces their weight on their left foot.
6. S:TR The dancer closes their right foot to their left foot.
 
 

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Welcome

Welcome to an incomplete book about Lindy Hop.

I wrote the text here five years ago, based on my notes from when I was originally learning Lindy Hop in the mid-1990s. My original plan was to take a large number of illustrative photographs, which would make the bare text much more comprehensible.

However, that was five years ago and I've not gotten as far as taking a single photograph. So rather than waiting any longer, I thought it worth releasing the text as-is, in case it's useful to anyone else.

I'd interested to hear any feedback, but unfortunately I can't promise to do much about it.

And maybe one day I'll get as far as illustrating the book, and creating the originally-intended printed version:

This book is dedicated to the memory of Frankie Manning (1914-2009), Ambassador of Lindy Hop.

David Drysdale
November 2012

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