Ensemble Blues, Blues dancing, Harlem Hot Shots, a tribute to Spirit Moves

Inspired by the dancers in documentary video The Spirit Moves by Mura Dehn featuring dancers like Whiteys Lindy Hoppers, Frankie Manning, Esther Washington, Sugar Sullivan, Sandra Gibson, Mildred Pollard, Scoby Stroman, Al Minns, James Berry, Leon James and more.
"Blues is the most profound, the most essential expression of jazz. The dancers in this sequence create moves and character pictures of blues.The motions which are born out of this music are decidedly of an african heritage", Mura Dehn (The Spirit Moves: A History of Black Social Dance on Film)
The Harlem Hot Shots is a project a group of dancers that dance and share the amazing Afro-American dance styles that derived out of Harlem in the 20s, 30s, and 40s. The golden era of swing! The group is Stockholm based but work frequently around the world with keeping the original style and atmosphere part of the contemporary swing dance scene. Dance styles such as the Lindy Hop, charleston, tap, vernacular jazz. They value the spirit and freedom in the dance as well as the profound ideas about improvisation, high quality, and the rhythmical language of swing.
They work in small clubs and the big stages. They performed Apollo Theatre, Stockholm Ericsson Globe, TV and much more. For bookings please visit and follow their Facebook Page :
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