At the height of the Roaring Twenties, flappers took to the floor, arms flailing and feet kicking to a new beat: the Charleston. A century later, the dance still captivates—especially for performer, ...
Editor’s note: In honor of Iowa History Month, we are looking back 100 years to the 1920s with a series of guest essays curated by the State Historical Society of Iowa, a division of the Iowa ...
The 1920s were a period of significant social transformation. After WWI, society was ready for something new, and young women ...
To connect with the Lindy Hop, a form of swing dance born in Harlem in the 1920s, you can look beyond the Lindy Hop. At least that’s the premise of “The Jazz Continuum,” running at the Kennedy Center ...