Swing is my main weapon.
We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.
Swing is my favorite kind of music.
When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.
Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
I'm not sure you can lindy hop to 'We're All In This Together,' but I'm sure the nuns would welcome Zac Efron round for tea!
In black culture, you know, we used to go swing dancing. We used to go out to go dance and actually have fun.
I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.
Of course I danced a lot when I was making 'Swingers.' The swing music scene was big in Hollywood, and I went to places like The Derby. And, after I wrote it and was trying to get it made, I would go every week so I'd be good at dancing.
I thought the Charleston would be a bit like the jive, but it isn't really.
Show dancing stood very well on its own a long time ago with dancers like Bill Robinson and Marilyn Miller.
I've always wanted to learn the jive. It's fast, it's fun and it just looks awesome.
I was always looking at footage of dancers from Nicholas Brothers to Ralph Brown to Sand Man to Miller Brothers and Lois, and I grew up looking at old footage.
