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Posted at 12:00 PM ET, 11/14/2011

Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn the moves

“Swing, Swing, Swing,” a festival at the Kennedy Center, devoted to the music and dances of the Swing Era, has started.
(Members of the Gotta Swing & Lindy Hop Dancers dance down the parade route during the 2010 National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) )

The U.S. Army Blues is playing in the “Dance Hall” of the center Monday at 6 p.m. The dances were many. One of the most famous was the Lindy Hop, illustrated in the following video.

Winyan Soo Hoo contributed to this post.

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