Please visit our YouTube page for all of our videos. Don’t forget to also check out our Practice Videos page. Here are just a few favourites:
Important Historical Videos:
After Seben 1929
Shorty George Snowden and others
Shorty George & Big Bea 1937
Humorous and great dancing
A Day At The Races 1937
Dance feature performed by Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers
Keep Punching 1939
The Big Apple performed by Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers
Hellzapoppin’ 1941
Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers perform the greatest Lindy Hop ever captured on film!
Hot Chocolate 1941
Duke Ellington with Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers
Stormy Weather 1943
This clip features Tap, not Lindy Hop, but it’s incredible and important historically. Featuring the Nicholas Brothers and vocals by Cab Calloway.
Groovie Movie 1944
A humorous look at the white dancers in Hollywood
Swing Fever 1944
Dean Collins & Jewel Mc Gowan – The Baby Boogie
A video from the mid-1940s in Hollywood, California
Killer Diller 1948
Frankie and the Congaroo dancers
The Spirit Moves 1950
Multiple segments including many members of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers
The Spirit Moves 1950
Frankie Manning!
Important Contemporary Lindy Hop Videos
(A work in progress as of May 3rd, 2013)
The Evolution of Lindy Hop
Can’t Top The Lindy Hop 1994
Inspiration behind Toy Story 3’s Woody and Jessie dance short
…And a few of our own favourite Bees’ Knees videos.
Bees’ Knees Dance 10 Year Anniversary dance & party
Mandi & Geoff’s engagement dance.
Social Dancing at the old studio.
Mandi teaching a solo Rock n’ Roll lesson in Korea
Mandi teaching with Frankie Manning (2008)
More workshops with Frankie Manning and Mandi (2008)
Mandi dancing on the Great Wall of China
Bees’ Knees Trio performing for Frankie Manning & Chazz Young (2006)
Mandi teaching with Chazz Young (2006)