Lindy Hop is taught and danced in Xanthi since Saturday, October 6, 2012 from 19:00 to 20:30 at Home of Culture.

Lindy Hop is a swing dance. It is the first of all Swing dance type we know today and is closely connected with the Big Band Swing Music of 1920-1940 because of the Second World War and the musical changes supervened Lindy Hop disappeared. But now this retro dance returns with bands, new-swing and vintage styling options inspiring young people and less young people around the world and in Greece to dance again into the swing rhythm. Dance and music.

The term “Lindy Hop” refers to a specific dance and Swing was the music accompanying these dance moves. In fact “Lindy Hop” was directly linked to the Swing music being part of the American lifestyle during 1930-1940. Big Bands were “Big Business” back then and their incomes were mainly coming from performances at music events. By this way “Lindy Hop” contributed so as Swing music to become even more famous. Swing music was also the means to spread the “Lindy Hop” all over America, Europe and Australia. Music affected the way of dancing, too. Traditional “Lindy Hop” was gradually disappearing, as Be-Bop and Rock n' Roll dominated the music scene.

The Second World War took many dancers and musicians away. An “entertainment tax” has resulted Big Bands to be more expensive, while recorded music was becoming cheaper. At the same time ballrooms were becoming smaller and people were crammed into a single room. As a result, the way of dancing had to change in order to suit these rooms. The term “Swing” is widely used today and includes many dance types, such as Lindy Hop, Jitterbug (Frankie Manning says "Jitterbug" is the Lindy Hop’s nickname), Balboa, Shag, Boogie Woogie, east and west coast Swing, and was an inspiration for other musical/dancing genres, such as Jive, Rock n' Roll, Ceroc, Le-Roc with local differences in every genre. However, many are those who will argue that “Lindy Hop” was the grandfather of them all.