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90 year old woman walks onto the dance floor but no one expected this...
- Published_at:2014-10-07
- Category:Entertainment
- Channel:AZ Lindy Hop Society
- tags: Swing Dance Swing Music (Musical Genre) Lindy Hop (Literature Subject) Hollywood (Neighborhood) Dance (Interest) Surprise (Quotation Subject) Legend (Quotation Subject) Jitterbug Icon (Art Period/Movement) Ballroom Dance (Sport) Jean Veloz 90
- description: 90 year old Hollywood Swing Dance legend Jean Veloz at FatCat Ballroom in Phoenix, AZ on October 4th, 2014 for the Arizona Swing Jam - a weekend of Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Swing Dancing, and Big Band Music. Music by Solomon Douglas Camera operator: Daniel Philbin and Laura Gatti Location: FatCat Ballroom in Phoenix, AZ (c) Arizona Lindy Hop Society Jean Veloz stepped out onto the floor to wave and then ended up burning up the floor with some of the moves she did in films of the 1940's while dancing with International instructor Steve Conrad of the Arizona Lindy Hop Society. Movies with Jean Veloz: The Groovie Movie (1944) - 9 minutes of swing dancing fun! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbaNYWkQYYA Swing Fever (1944): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaK5OWztCz8 About Jean Veloz: Jean Veloz is a legend and icon of Lindy Hop/Jitterbug whose unique style has been copied over the past 7 decades by dancers around the world. Jean was nominated in 1995 and inducted into the 'California Swing Dance Hall of Fame' in 1996 and can be scene doing her unique style of Lindy Hop in a few surviving films such as Swing Fever and the instructional and hilariously entertaining Pete Smith short, "Groovie Movie" where swing dancers demonstrated various dance steps of the jitterbug. At just 90 years young, Jean shows no signs of slowing down. She has been invited to appear as a special guest at numerous Lindy Hop weekends. Learn how to dance: www.AZLindy.com
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