How to Jitterbug Single Swing: Center, Rhythm, Movement

This video will explain the Rhythm and Movement used in Single Time Swing or Jitterbug. You will also learn how to Center yourself to create perfect balance which allows you ease of movement and connection. These principles are use in the beginner, intermediate and advanced level.

[hansg]

I've taken dance classes but no instructor has ever explained these fundamentals. Really good way to build a foundation for all dancing. Thanks so much for this very professional tutorial.

[camey]

Had 6 years of ballroom dance lessons and loved it. This video brought back such wonderful memories.

[skipper]

My mom and aunt used to jitterbug all the time. Now, i want to learn how to do it!! Good memories, watching them

[piirand]

Thank you for explaining and demonstrating what seems like the most basic information—how the lead should hold her hand, where she should be placing her hand on her partner’s shoulder, which foot each dancer should start off with, etc. My 15-year old daughter and I are going to learn how to jitterbug so we always have moves at parties/weddings, etc. It’ll also be good exercise for us! Although we’ll just be amateurs learning the most fun dance we can find, we’d like to learn to do it correctly so we can translate these skills to other partners in the future! Thanks for your very informative video!

[michaeldell]

Great information. Just the direction on the rock step helped a lot. No one ever told me to keep the weight over the front leg. HUGE difference.

[michaelwhitney]

Best one I’ve seen…makes sense…I get confused when they just call number of steps…your both great! ❤

[ConcernedCitizen]

Thank you for this excellent tutorial. This provides an excellent foundation for learning the correct technique. Very much appreciated. Taking group classes you don't get any of this information.

[denjpic]

During this isolation time, we decided to teach ourselves to jitterbug. Excellent explanation - we enjoyed it very much. Thank you. Hoping there are more.

[karenhantsche]

I loved these explanations. I had an ex who was great at this, and I never really understood the science behind his moves. I like all the information about balance and tension.

[jamespalmer]

I don't know anything about dancing, and I like the explanations.

[nikolaikim]

Very good points, excellent explanation, thank you very much. I would love to see more about swing/jitterbug.

[mahaguru]

Wow this is the information I was looking for.

[TheUnkus]

that was awesome.  I'm getting married shortly, and my mother asked if we could play a jitterbug.  I want to surprise her.  Thank you.

[kcsnow]

Brilliant, and thanks so much. I probably couldn't, with an entirely destroyed left achilles tendon, but it's still nice to see how it's done.
A link to the Lindy Hop would be appreciated too.

[summerscindy]

I love Jitterbug and swing I was great at it being thrown all around my dancing came natural

[AmyMarieCajigas]

Hello @DrDanceRight ! I'm looking for a professional jitterbug/swing dancer to help me analyze a photograph from 1938 of a pair of swing dancers performing a swing move. This is for a history project at my university and I'd greatly appreciate your help! Is there a way I may contact you, if that's okay?

[fresnoswingdance]

Useful video, but pardon me: what ballroom dancers call jitterbug, isn't. It's East Coast Swing. From the Wikipedia page on East Coast Swing "The dance was created by dance studios including the Arthur Murray dance studios in the 1940s, based on the Lindy Hop. Lindy Hop was felt by dance studios to be both too difficult and too unstructured to teach to beginning dancers, but there was market demand for training in Swing Dance. The dance studios had initially dismissed Lindy Hop in particular as a fad." The term Jitterbug comes from the 1930's and originally referred to dances being done at that time, e.g. Lindy Hop and the like.

[chrisocon]

I asked Google Assistant what it liked to dance and it brought me here

[Thepixiebella]

I wish I had a partner. :/ forever alone.

[bernardbrown]

Is this a dance lesson or an anatomy lesson?