Frankie Manning | Obituary
Choreographer, dancer and pioneer of the lindy hopFrankie Manning, the superlative dancer of the lindy hop, has died aged 94. In his 2007 autobiography, Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop (co-written with Cynthia Millman) he declared a "mission" to abolish the false distinction, as he saw it, between the terms "jitterbug" and "lindy hop". Frankie's insistence that they had the same meaning was no mere semantics…
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