Watching swing dancers on the dance floor transports you back to the 1930s, when swing was at its peak. The music is big band ...

As two dancers clasp hands and spin across the dance floor, their movements perfectly correlate with a black-and-white video of the same dance being performed nearly 100 years before. Last Saturday, ...

Before joining the Iowa West Coast Swing club, Kristine Pinter had only taken a few ballet classes and had little experience with social dancing. A few months later, she is now an active part of the ...

The dance team is called the Eight Week Wonders. For the next 2 minutes 4 seconds, team members perform, more or less in unison, an exuberant series of swing-dancing moves with names like the whip, ...

Above, junior Adam Valle spins High School English Teacher Jaclyn Wagner on May 19. A group of students and the teacher learned swing dance moves the Tuesday before prom.

Like many sports, dance can present several barriers to access, especially for adults. For example, most ballerinas start out at a very young age, which means the form is especially unwelcoming to ...