What has the Savoy got to do with swing dance or lindy hop?
Whilst it’s probably not true that the Lindy Hop was created at the Savoy, nor that all of the many kinds of American Lindy Hop/Jitterbug style swing dance can be traced back directly to the Savoy, it was the place where this style of dancing and its related musical forms were taken to their greatest height. No other ballroom in the USA had quite the international reputation of Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom for both the quality of its dancing and the quality of its music.
