Minnesota Lindy

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Lindy Hop has existed in Minnesota for several decades. In recent times, since the Gap commercial featuring Lindy Hop, it has taken renewed interest among the dancers of Minnesota. Several instructors have fostered the growth of Lindy Hop and its related set of dances during this time and have created a vibrant, active dance scene. The dancers and events are recognized nationally for being some of the best in the nation and the world.

1 Local and regional events
2 National events
3 Instructors
4 Dancer Resources
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Local and regional events

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Sving Du Nord
Late Nite Swing

[edit] National events

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Midwest LindyFest
Twin Cities Lindy Exchange
ForePlex
Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown

[edit] Instructors

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[edit] Dancer Resources

Minnesota Lindy (MNLindy) is a community-driven website offering information on swing dance and Lindy Hop in Minnesota and the Midwest region of the United States. Based in Minneapolis, MinnesotaLindy.com is used as a forum for dancers and dancing events in Minneapolis, St. Paul, greater Minnesota, Wisconsin, and occasionally Iowa. The site hosts regularly updated news regarding dancing in the region, a calendar of dance events and a lively message board with rss feeds and email digests. The focus of the site is to spread information about Lindy Hop and its related dances, such as Charleston, Balboa and Blues throughout the Midwest.

Going beyond the call of the typical social website constructed to augment a real world community, MinnesotaLindy also hosts several events throughout the year. MNLindy hosts an annual fundraiser dance in spring along with a late night blues party and raffles away hundreds of dollars in donated prizes. MNLindy hosts a few workshops throughout the year with instructors from all over. MNLindy even went so far as to back ForePlex, a travelling, Canadian exchange in August 2006 in Minneapolis.

MinnesotaSwingDance and MPLSwing yahoo! groups both offer email based discussion groups. MinnesotaSwingDance focuses primarily on Lindy Hop, and Blues danced to Jump Blues bands and actively maintains a calendar while MPLSwing focuses primarily on discussion and promotion of events.