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	SAVOY Online
		Bronzeville's Savoy Ballroom closed in the summer of 1948, and the building was later demolished.
		There's the Savoy Theater in London, which opened in 1881, and The Savoy, a grand five-star hotel known as "London's Famous Landmark," which opened in 1889 after the founder of the theater decided that patrons needed a place to stay after shows.
		And Savoy is a historic region of southeast France.
	www.savoymag.com /savoyscene.html (451 words)

	Savoy-style Lindy Hop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Savoy style Lindy Hop was most frequently associated with living dancers from the 1930s such as Frankie Manning, and with the Swedish dance troupe The Rhythm Hot Shots (now known as The Harlem Hot Shots).
		Savoy style is also said to be characterized by a pronounced downwards 'bounce', which is again something of a misnomer, as different dancers employed varying degrees and types of 'bounce', and observers of Frankie Manning have noted changes in his own dancing style in this respect over the years.
		Perhaps the most useful employment of the term 'Savoy-style Lindy Hop' lies in the association of the Savoy Ballroom (and dancers who were associated with it, particularly those of the Whitey's Lindy Hoppers) and ethnicity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Savoy-style_Lindy_Hop (800 words)

	Savoy Ballroom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Savoy Ballroom located in Harlem, New York City, was a medium sized ballroom for music and public dancing that was in operation from 1926 to 1958.
		The Savoy was a popular dance venue from the late 1920s to the 1950s and many dances such as Lindy Hop became famous here.
		The ballroom was on the second floor and a block long.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Savoy_Ballroom (411 words)

	Savoy Ballroom St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Savoy was a place of intense and creative dance activity--new and old steps were refined and taken to new heights in response to the evolution of swing jazz and be-bop.
		Savoy dancers even adapted to the new and difficult-to-dance-to rhythms of be-bop, and the bands that played there likewise created new rhythms in response to the movement of the dancers.
		The Savoy Ballroom was instrumental in the dissemination of swing dance and played an important role in the coalescence of popular dance and music.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419101066 (985 words)

	Swing History origins of Swing Dance
		The ballroom dance community was more interested in teaching the foreign dances such as the Argentine Tango, Spanish Paso Doblé, Brazilian Samba, Puerto Rican Merengue, Cuban Mambo and Cha Cha, English Quickstep, Austrian Waltz, with an occasional American Fox-trot and Peabody.
		Savoy Swing: a style of Swing popular in the New York Savoy Ballroom in the 30's and 40's originally danced to Swing music.
		Ballroom West Coast Swing: a style of swing popular in the ballroom dance school organizations and different from the style performed in the California night clubs and Swing dance clubs.
	www.centralhome.com /ballroomcountry/swing.htm (1376 words)

	Savoy Ballroom homepage
		The crown jewel of Harlem for 32 years, the Savoy cultivated new dance forms, transformed jazz musicians (both fl and white) into legends, broke down barriers and fostered racial integration; and most importantly gave three generations of New Yorkers a place to unwind like nowhere else in the world.
		On the weekend of March 11-12, 2006, the 80th anniversary of its opening, the Savoy Ballroom will be remembered and close to 100 of those musicians and dancers who made it the "Home of Happy Feet" will be honored at an anniversary dinner-dance at the Alhambra Ballroom.
		The New York Swing Dance Society celebrates the SAVOY’s 80th with a panel discussion on the ‘80s revival of interest in lindy hop, special dance performances and video presentations, and social dancing to the City Rhythm Orchestra.
	www.savoy80.org (401 words)

	Savoy Style - Dance Forums
		The Savoy was a ballroom in Harlem on Lenox Avenue between 140th and 141st Streets.
		The Savoy was so popular that there coatcheck served 5,000 patrons and the dance floor, known as "the Track" had to be replaced regularly every three years.
		Savoy style in so often thought of being the way Frankie Manning dances, but there are so many other styles that developed over a relatively long period of time.
	www.dance-forums.com /showthread.php?t=373 (1327 words)

	StreetSwing's Dance History Archives - Savoy Ballroom Dance Page - Main1
		The Savoy was known as the "Home Of Happy Feet" and had the best Lindy Hop dancers in the Nation with the Lindy Hop being said to originate at the Savoy.
		The roots of the Lindy Hop was the Breakaway and the Breakaway was the main dance of choice in the late 1920's early 30's, at the Savoy whose main exponent was "Shorty George" Snowden.
		The Savoy's License was temporarily revoked in 1943.
	www.streetswing.com /histmain/z3savoy1.htm (1160 words)

	About the Savoy Ballroom
		The Savoy was appropriately nicknamed, "The home of happy feet," and it was also known among the regular patrons as "the Track" for the elongated shape of the dance floor.
		A long succession of dance fads were launched from the Savoy that swept the nation and overseas in response to ever changing music trends from dixieland, ragtime, jazz, blues, swing, stomp, boogie-woogie, bop to countless peabody, waltz, one-step, two-step and rhumba variations.
		Among the countless dance styles originated and developed at the Savoy were: The Flying Charleston, The Lindy Hop, The Stomp, The Big Apple, Jitterbug Jive, Peckin', Snakehips, Rhumboogie and intricate variations of the Peabody, the Shimmy, Mambo, etc..
	www.savoyplaque.org /about_savoy.htm (1061 words)

	African American Registry: The Savoy Ballroom opens
		The Savoy was billed as the world’s most beautiful ballroom; it occupied the second floor of a building that extended along the whole block between 140th and 141st streets, and featured a large dance floor (200 feet by 50 feet), two bandstands, and a retractable stage.
		The ballroom was the center for the development of lindyhopping.
		The Savoy enjoyed a long and glittering career that lasted well into the 1950s, before a decline in its fortunes set in.
	aaregistry.com /african_american_history/844/The_Savoy_Ballroom_opens (202 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago -- Savoy Ballroom
		Among the fl jazz greats that appeared at the Savoy during the late 1920s and 1930s were Louis Armstrong and Dave Peyton, whose orchestra dueled that of Erskine Tate in a "battle of the bands" promotion at the ballroom in 1930.
		Although most of the Savoy's patrons were fl, growing numbers of white Chicagoans visited the Savoy to hear and dance to the great jazz bands of the day.
		The Savoy Ballroom was demolished as part of the city's massive land clearance and urban renewal program in the early 1970s.
	chicago.urban-history.org /sites/ballroom/savoy.htm (1075 words)

	Yehoodi.com
		Dancers are invited to gather at the Savoy plaque to rededicate the site, hear stories about the Savoy from those who danced there, and do a little dancing where the ballroom once stood.
		Leading Savoy historian Terry Monaghan explores the SAVOY experience Through the memories of those who played or danced there, including Frankie Manning, Norma Miller, Sugar Sullivan, Earl May and other renown panelists.
		The 80th anniversary celebration culminates in the reunion of nearly 100 Savoy dancers and musicians who will be honored at an elegant dinner/dance at the Alhambra Ballroom.
	www.yehoodi.com /news/more_info.php?ArticleID=5797 (291 words)

	The Savoy Ball - The Grand Hall, Battersea Arts Centre - Saturday 10th-March 2007, 7.30pm-1am
		The Savoy Ball was conceived back in 2002 as a tribute to the legendary Savoy Ballroom of Harlem, New York City, where Lindy Hop dancing was taken to its greatest heights during the 1930s...
		The Savoy Ballroom located in Harlem, New York City, was a medium sized ballroom for music and public dancing that was in operation from 1926 to 1958.
		The Savoy was a popular dance venue from the late 1920s to the 1950s and many dances such as Lindy Hop became famous here.
	www.swingland.com /savoyball (699 words)

	Stompin' at the Savoy
		ballroom that hosted the most celebrated swing bands of all time.
		Most ballroom dances in the mid-Willamette Valley are semi-formal events and encompass a variety of dance styles from foxtrot to rumba.
		The Ballroom Club at OSU organizes several large dances every term which are held in the MU Ballroom (downstairs in the MU) as well as weekly practice dances in the Women’s Building.
	oregonstate.edu /~blasenb/articles/College/ballroom.htm (759 words)

	Savoy Jazz - 60 Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Savoy is the brainchild of one Herman Lubinsky, a man who, for many, will come to define the stereotype of the tough-talking, cigar-chewing, tight-fisted record man.
		Savoy, in early 1943, will have its first chart hit on Billboard Magazine's Harlem Hit Parade, Don’t Stop Now, by the Bunny Banks Trio.
		What also will help Savoy and the other indies gain a foothold is the fact that the major labels are in the midst of a recording ban instigated by the American Federation of Musicians and, after Decca’s capitulation, the smaller companies will be free to agree to the union’s demands.
	www.savoyjazz.com /sites/savoy/review1.asp (490 words)

	Jazz Standards: Stompin' At the Savoy
		The title “Stompin’ at the Savoy” refers to the Savoy Ballroom in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.
		A number of dance crazes began or at least were initially popularized at the Savoy, most notably the Lindy Hop, a partnered jazz dance that evolved into the “jitterbug” and subsequently East Coast Swing.
		During a time of racial segregation and strife, the Savoy was one of the most culturally and racially integrated of institutions, and its fame was international.
	www.jazzstandards.com /compositions-0/stompinatthesavoy.htm (1304 words)

	Yehoodi.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The celebration culminates in the reunion of nearly 100 Savoy dancers and musicians in an elegant dinner/dance at the Alhambra Ballroom.
		From 1926 to 1958, Harlem's Savoy Ballroom was a cultural powerhouse that defined jazz music and dance tastes for three decades.
		Born in the heyday of the Harlem Renaissance, the Savoy Ballroom would become the crown jewel of Harlem nightlife and a magnet for jazz music and dance creativity.
	www.yehoodi.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=75509 (614 words)

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		The elite dancers at the Savoy would often come early in the afternoons to practice their moves while the evening's band rehearsed.
		From the Charleston of the early 1920's evolved a new dance characterized by increased athleticism and a dynamic new rhythm.
		The elite dancers at the Savoy Ballroom were the innovators of this new dance.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/IPHS/Projects/swing1/dance/dance.htm (646 words)

	PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Places Spaces & Changing Faces - Savoy Ballroom
		The Savoy was opened on March 12, 1926 by Moe Gale (Moses Galewski), Charles Galewski, and a Harlem real estate businessman called Charles Buchanan, who functioned as the ballroom's manager.
		The Savoy was billed as the world's most beautiful ballroom; it occupied the second floor of a building that extended along the whole block between 140th and 141st streets, and featured a large dance floor (200 feet by 50 feet), two bandstands, and a retractable stage.
		On its opening night the Savoy featured Fess Williams and his Royal Flush Orchestra, the Charleston Bearcats, fronted by Leon Abbey, and, as a guest band, Fletcher Henderson's Roseland Orchestra; the Charleston Bearcats formed a lasting connection with the venue and later changed its name to the Savoy Bearcats.
	www.pbs.org /jazz/places/spaces_savoy_ballroom.htm (306 words)

	The Beginning of the Lindy Hop
		Lindy Hop was breaking out wherever people were partying...
		But it wasn't until after the opening of the Savoy Ballroom that Lindy Hop got its name and a home.
		At the Savoy the Lindy Hop got hotter and hotter, as people danced to the top Big Bands in the land.
	www.savoystyle.com /history.html (223 words)

	Roller Skating at the Savoy Ballroom - Chicago Illinois
		The Savoy Ballroom was built in Chicago, Illinois USA in 1927 and it was located at 4733 South Parkway (currently Martin Luther King Drive).
		The ballroom was located in the heart of a predominently African-American neighborhood and it was an elegant showcase for top jazz bands, sporting events, community meetings, and roller skating parties.
		the Savoy Ballroom was torn down in the early 1970's and in 1998 the Lou Rawls theater Culture Center was built on the site.
	www.skatelog.com /history/savoy-vintage-photos.htm (226 words)

	Regal Theater and Savoy Ballroom, 1941
		Opened in 1928, the Lubliner and Trinz theater seated 3,000 patrons in air-conditioned splendor as they watched film or listened to one of the theater's two orchestras.
		The Chicago Defender described the theater's inerior as "an Oriental garden on a moonlight night." Part of a larger construction project that included the Savoy Ballroom and the South Center department store, the Regal helped make 47th Street's reputation as the Harlem of Chicago.
		The theater was demolished in 1973, but it legacy lives on in the New Regal Theater, the former Avalon Theater renamed in its honor.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/3492.html (140 words)

	The New Fasca.net
		Admission $15/$10 Students w/valid ID The 92nd Street Y remembers the famous Savoy Ballroom on Saturday, September 13, with a special tribute swing dance at Buttenweiser Hall featuring George Gee and His Swing Orchestra, special guests from the Savoy, a dance contest and a screening of rare swing dance (Lindy Hop) footage.
		The Savoy's two bandstands featured the finest bands in the swing era, many of which, including Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald, were its house bands.
		In an era of racial segregation, the Savoy was a beacon of diversity, both its integrated dance floor and front office.
	www.fasca.net /92Y_Sep03.html (763 words)

	Amazon.fr : Happy Feet: The Savoy Ballroom Lindy Hoppers And Me: Livres en anglais: Richard Michelson,E. B. Lewis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		On that same night, the doors opened across the street at the famous Savoy Ballroom, one of the first venues where fls and whites could dance together.
		The second is the same shop in 1926, when "Twistmouth himself" took the father across to the newly opened dance palace, where he danced joyfully until joining his wife back at home for the birth of their son.
		The appended author's note includes information about the Savoy Ballroom and the Lindy Hop as well as brief biographies of five famous dancers from the early period of the dance club.
	www.amazon.fr /Happy-Feet-Ballroom-Lindy-Hoppers/dp/0152050574 (615 words)

	Bronzeville - Jazz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jay Faggen, a well-known ballroom owner and dance promoter, became part owner and assisted with the operation of the ballroom.
		In the Savoy Ballroom there was more than a half-acre of dancing space.
		The ballroom was so popular that it often appeared in the Chicago’s leading fl newspaper, The Chicago Defender.
	cuip.uchicago.edu /~stuart/bronzeville/jazz2.htm (278 words)

	Drop Me Off in Harlem
		Spanning an entire block of New York City, the Savoy Ballroom was one of Harlem's best-known nightclubs.
		This arrangement sparked the Savoy's signature musical innovation, the famous "Battle of the Bands," which pitted against one another combos led by legends such as Chick Webb ("King of the Savoy"), Cab Calloway, Fletcher Henderson, and Duke Ellington.
		The extent to which the Renaissance Casino and Ballroom was woven into the fabric of Harlem nightlife is evidenced by its appearance in literature of the day, such as "College Formal: Renaissance Casino," a poem by Langston Hughes.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /exploring/harlem/places/savoy_text.html (3640 words)

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