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	Streetswings Dance History archives
		The "Shim Sham" or "Sham" was originally a pre Tap dance routine done by Vaudeville performers in the early 1900's and consisted of a mixture of standard steps but done in no particular order.
		The Shim Sham was changed somewhat by Bryant and Reed over the years into the Shim Sham Shimmy for swing dancers and is done by lindy dancers today, similar to a type of Line Dance today...
		The Sham was done at one time at the Savoy ballroom to the song entitled "The Song of the Freaks," written by Luis Russell.
	www.streetswing.com /histmain/z3shimsh.htm (451 words)

	American Dance Legends - Leonard Reed - TheatreDance.com
		Leonard Reed, a tap dance pioneer who was co-creator of the famous Shim Sham Shimmy dance routine, died here on Monday.
		Reed, with his dance partner, Willie Bryant, invented the shimmy routine as a flashy finale to their dance act in the late 1920's.
		Like most forms of tap, it was probably an adaptation of an earlier dance, but at some point Reed, who always retained traces of his flamboyant Charleston style in his taps, added a shimmy of the shoulders, perhaps at the prompting of the Whitman girls.
	www.theatredance.com /legends/reed.html (1351 words)

	Shim Sham (dance)
		When a group of people do the Shim Sham (especially a group of people from different cities), their steps will be largely similar with some variation and even some improvisation.
		The Shim Sham is a 10-frame dance (each frame lasting four bars), so it does not usually take up an entire song.
		After the the Shim Sham, dancers typically grab a partner and break into lindy hop for the remainder of the song.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Shim_Sham_(dance) (368 words)

	LyricsVault: History of music; History of dance
		Dance generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting.
		Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication between humans or animals (bee dance, mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (the leaves danced in the wind), and certain musical forms or genres.
		It was during the explosion of new thinking and exploration in the early 20th century that dance artists began to appreciate the qualities of the individual, the necessities of ritual and religion, the primitive, the expressive and the emotional.
	www.lyricsvault.net /history/historyofdance.html (1456 words)

	Dance - Imagination - Themepark
		She frequently danced in a costume that was similar to a Greek tunic with many colored scarves draped over her shouldlers.
		The tail-wagging dance is for nectar that is farther from the hive.
		In the tail-wagging dance, the size of the flying dance loops is relative to the distance of the nectar, and the vigorousness of the wagging represents the approximate amount of nectar available.
	www.uen.org /themepark/imagination/dance.shtml (604 words)

	Dance \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As the honoree of the evening, he danced a couple of numbers with his partner, Germaine Ingram, and shed a calm benevolence over the evening’s array of dancers in varying ages and flavors.
		Hosted by the bouncy Dianne Walker, Tapestry 2002 incorporated two Irish stepdancers, Boston modern jazz choreographer Adrienne Hawkins, Dance Inn director Thelma Goldberg with her students and protégés, nods to celebrities in the audience, and a tribute to the late Buster Brown presided over by Josh Hilberman.
		When the Dance Inn students, dubbed the Legacy Dancers, opened up to " Doin’ the New Lowdown, " you could see that some of the teenagers had their own sense of how the weight and rhythm of the steps came down whereas others simply smiled and did all steps the same.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/dance/documents/02288679.htm (766 words)

	SHIM SHAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The true origin of Shim Sham is debatable.
		Among those given credit for its creation are Leonard Reed and Willy Bryant, who danced at the Apollo Club, in Harlem, in the early '30s, and Joe Jones, who danced with the tap dance ensemble, The Three Little Words, at a club called Connie's Inn.
		The Three Little Words would close their show with the "Sham" and invite everyone in the club to join them.
	www.dancecatalog.com /vcrshimsham.html (146 words)

	Store :: DanceVision.com
		Shim Sham Shimmy was originally designed to be the "show stopping" number in Vaudeville shows.
		Since the various acts changed all the time four well known tap dancing steps were strung together so the various acts could do the one last number together without a lot of rehearsal.
		The current incarnation of this line dance has been simplified from the original tap version so that it's accessible to non-tap dancers and is a favorite at many Swing conventions throughout the world.
	www.dancevision.com /store/videos/browse_by_styles/shim_sham_shimmy (121 words)

	Swing Dance Brisbane : Recapturing the spirit of the 20s, 30s and 40s
		Unlike earlier jazz, swing was tailor made for partner dancing, a fact that promoted swing to its position as the first and only form of jazz to be embraced by a mass audience.
		After all, what we do is a street dance and many of the fad dances of the day were borne out of solo style movement.
		Line dances (or Jam dances) such as the Shim Sham, Big Apple and The Jitterbug Stroll – were born out of Jazz freestyle dancing new and old.
	swingdancebrisbane.com /about/what_is_swing.asp (737 words)

	Leonard Reed's Shim Sham Shimmy. In 1927, two song and dance men, Leonard Reed and Willie Bryant, took four popular ...
		In 1927, two song and dance men, Leonard Reed and Willie Bryant, took four popular steps of the 1920's, strung them together and created the now legendary tap dance "The Shim Sham Shimmy." In February 1994, at age 87, Leonard created the Shim Sham II.
		If you've been tap dancing for years or are just putting on your first pair of tap shoes, you'll be able to learn the Shim Sham Shimmy.
		In the lesson, tap dancer and preservationist Rusty Frank breaks down the Shim Sham Shimmy, the Freeze Chorus and the Shim Sham II, using the same accessible methods she's used in hundreds of tap classes.
	www.shopmountainlaurel.com /tap_dance/page6.html (446 words)

	1 NEW GROOVE - Dance Instruction Video Page
		The "Shim Sham" or "Sham" was originally a Tap dance routine done by Vaudeville performers in the early 1900's and is still taught in most tap dance classes today.
		The Shim Sham-Shimmy is said to be the creation of Willie Bryant and Leonard Reed and was changed to accomdate a large group in 1927.
		This is a standard line dance known by swing dancers all over the world and incorporates authentic jazz movements that are regularly used as styling while dancing with a partner.
	www.1newgroove.com /video.asp (239 words)

	Department of Theatre & Dance at Rollins College
		Like all liberal arts, dance teaches life skills that will benefit the student later in life, regardless of the vocation selected.
		Plato once wrote, "to sing and dance well is to be well educated." He considered the uneducated man achoreutos or danceless; the educated one, kechoreukos, endowed with dance.
		The dance minor provides the liberal arts student opportunity for rigorous training and personal involvement in dance as an art form.
	www.rollins.edu /theatre/dancecourses.shtml (498 words)

	Shim Sham - Dance Forums
		It's a non-partnered dance (well not entirely, in all versions) derived from an old tap warmup routine using jazz steps, as I was taught.
		Dance with bended knees, lest you be taken for a corpse.
		The original swing dance that arose in the late 20's and early 30's especially in New York City.
	www.dance-forums.com /showthread.php?t=1712 (1089 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		COVINA -- Leonard Reed, a tap dance pioneer who co-created the famed Shim Sham Shimmy dance step and winner of the lifetime achievement award from the American Music Awards, has died.
		The book "Jazz Dance" by Marshall and Jean Stearns described it as "a one-chorus routine to a 32-bar tune with eight bars each" consisting of the double shuffle, crossover, an up-and-back shuffle and the another move, described as "falling off a log."
		The dancer was raised by relatives and other guardians in Kansas City, where he won contests dancing the Charleston and worked summers at carnivals doing the dance.
	www.maxwelldemille.com /leonard/ap.asp (340 words)

	Products
		People keep reporting how easy it is to learn the Shim Sham from our video.
		It is finally available on DVD and shows a complete, one hour class, learning the Shim Sham from all four sides, from start to finish.
		Skippy personally wants the whole swing world to learn the Shim Sham and so is offering this historical information for only $40.
	swingworld.com /products.htm (736 words)

	Tap Steps: Shim Sham Shimmy
		The Shim Sham is an obligatory routine for tap dancers and its invention is credited to Leonard Reed a vaudeville tapper in the '20s according to the book "Tap!
		The Shim Sham routine is comprised of four timesteps in the A-B-A-C form.
		It is done by the character Amy Simms and The Shim Sham Girls in the bar on Hoofer's Night.
	www.tapdance.org /tap/steps/shimsham.htm (591 words)

	The Swannanoa Gathering- Sing Swing & String Week Classes
		Be it the improvised compositional ways they are made, the dancing theatrical ways they are taught, or the well-worn pathways in which they are remembered, you’ll see how material that looks challenging on paper really has a comfortable home in the aural tradition.
		As a leader or a follower in any type of dance, it is very important to stay connected to your partner and to be able to react quickly to the dance around you.
		This exuberant popular swing dance originated in the 1930’s and is known as the “tap dancers’ anthem.” Pre-dating the “electric slide,” it was performed at the end of every evening’s social dance in Harlem and all over New York City.
	www.swangathering.org /Catalog/SS/sgssclasses.html (2945 words)

	Dance Across America @ National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		From ballet to break-dance, from the hora to hip-hop, this country stays moving on the dance floor.
		It's as ancient as the 3,400-year-old image of a man with a lute, dancing on a clay plaque discovered in northern Israel.
		Dance, like the rhythm of a beating heart, is life.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0607/feature4/index.html (465 words)

	Ballroom and Latin Dance Instructional Videos
		Using her experience as a teacher for 25 years, she shares with you the five secrets of great dancers, and defines what a great dancer means to her.
		With ballroom dancing champion Teresa Mason, raise your level of style and technique to new heights, combining the basic and intermediate steps from the Beginner and Intermediate videos from this series.
		These dances are great for the Latin music of yesterday as well as the hot new songs by today's biggest Latin artists.
	securesearch.org /ballroom_latin_dance/index.html (2575 words)

	Wanna Dance?!
		Enthusiasts of Lindy Hop, a particularly vigorous form of swing dancing, worship shamelessly at the dancing feet of octogenarian icon Frankie Manning and perform a weekly ritual Shim-Sham dance at the Continental.
		Within a dance, there can be communication, romance, and relationship, albeit in 5-10 minute intervals, all limited to the dance floor.
		Going dancing not only seeks to alleviate these problems, it produces a sense of excitement and vitality, a joie de vivre that also validates feelings of desirability and self-worth.
	www.salsanewyork.com /magazine/articles/wanna_dance.htm (1409 words)

	Most Creative Hand Dance Competition - Dance Forums
		Her dance by choice is Lindy Hop, however, she dances West Coast Swing, Carolina Shag, and Chicago Steppin.
		She dances with Frankie Manning (Lindy Hop King) and she is going to teach us how to do the Shim Sham dance.
		My uttermost important factor in putting on these competitions is to be able to award a "substantial" amount of funds as incentives to contestants who have worked so diligently in preparing and presenting a dance that is entertaining to themselves, as well as, to the public.
	www.dance-forums.com /showthread.php?t=54 (1516 words)

	OCU Honorary Awards - Leonard Reed
		Leonard Reed, inventor of the famous Shim Sham Shimmy, is a multi-talented performer whose career has run the gamut in show business: dancer, producer, comedian, songwriter, arranger, master of ceremonies, choreographer, band leader, and director.
		The Shim Sham remains an institution among tap dancers.
		Currently, at age 93, Reed travels the nation, teaching master tap classes and his famous "Shim Sham Shimmy." He was recently given a Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony in Los Angeles, hosted by Dick Clark, and in March 2000, he was presented with the Living Treasure in American Dance Award from Oklahoma City University.
	www.okcu.edu /Dance_amgt/leonardreed.html (285 words)

	Instructional Materials in Dance
		Information on 25 basic dance movements is provided, including an explanation of the movement and timing, styling, and tips for teaching.
		In addition, there are pages of information on how to perform various kinds of dances including square dances, quadrilles, contra dances, no partner (line) dances, round dance mixers, Sicilian circles, trios, and mescolanzas.
		Instructions on tap dance steps including Shim Sham Background, Shim Sham Steps, Basic Timestep Combinations, and Paddle and Roll.
	www.cln.org /subjects/dance_inst.html (378 words)

	Shim Sham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Shim Sham is a swing line dance & mixer that goes back to the early days of swing, jazz & tap dance.
		You can learn the steps by either taking a class, watching a video, or just stepping out onto the dance floor every week and imitating what everyone else is doing.
		Midway through the song, the line dance portion ends, and everyone grabs whoever is next to them to swing-dance the remainder of the song.
	www.swingtime.info /swingtime/misc/mixer_shimsham.html (101 words)

	Shim Sham
		The warmup exercise became the Shim Sham dance (named after its first step) and the song became a tradition.
		It is undisputed that the Lindy revival of the late 1980s also brought back Shim Sham.
		After we have gone through the dance twice, we switch over to a new pattern, which can be described as "Clap Backs" followed by a jazz step.
	www.stolaf.edu /orgs/swingclub/shimsham.html (1150 words)

	Dance @ UNI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Repertory Dance Theatre, the newest company in the dance program, is dedicated to meeting the dance program's goal of educating dance artists, fostering dance arts appreciation in the community and expanding dance arts experiences.
		Through a lecture/demonstration format, RDT presents an overview of the history of art dance (ballet, modern, tap and jazz) in 20th Century America to the UNI community, area middle and high schools, and the Cedar Valley public.
		Students have the opportunity to learn all dances and are then selected to perform the dance(s) they are most proficient in.
	www.uni.edu /dance/RDT.htm (196 words)

	Shim Sham tape and Tap! book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dance teacher and author Rusty Frank offers a video tape teaching you Leonard Reed's Shim Sham Shimmy.
		She gives you a good lesson in the Shim Sham and offers some tape of Leonard as well.
		The forward is by Gregory Hines and each chapter is about a dancer or dance team in their own words.
	www.kcdance.com /BarbLen/tape-book.asp (222 words)

	Swing Dance Video Source - TC Swingin' Hepcats!
		This routine includes moves, such as The Shim Sham Step, Boogie Forward, Tacky Ann, Freeze Breaks, Shorty George and many others...
		Also Available on DVD is Dean Collins' Shim Sham with Marcus and Baerbl!
		Most commonly danced to "Tuxedo Junction" (on "Really Swingin’ Frankie Manning’s Favorites" CD) and also now to Bill Elliott’s "Shim Sham Song" on Swingin the Century.
	www.swinginhepcats.com /Swing_Dance/Stuff/shimsham.html (388 words)

	Hop to the Beat Dance Studio - Lindy Hop Swing & Balboa Classes
		Hop to the Beat Dance Studio regularly holds Lindy Hop style Swing, Balboa and other classes taught by Tony and Aurelie Tye for the Boston, Massachusetts area in Newton.
		Danced to Woodchoppers Ball and Steven Mitchell's Jitterbug Stroll.
		It is danced to all tempos of Swing music, starting with 1920's hot Jazz and smokin' Blues, Big Band Swing and Jazz Combos of the 1940s to today, the infectious energy of Jump Blues and Boogie Woogie, '50s Rock 'n' Roll, and also includes Rhythm and Blues and many of today's popular contemporary tunes.
	www.hoptothebeat.com /classes.html (1956 words)

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