Make Your Beautiful Basics - Ankle Burner Edition! For Lindy Hop and Swing Dance

Support my channel by going to   / lauraglaess   Instagram:   / lauraglaess   An essential quality in beautiful basic jazz movement, in my opinion, is the power and agility of the standing leg. So many people see and put their focus on the kicking leg, but the character and quality of the move comes from that unsung hero - the standing leg. In this video, we'll look at vintage footage of powerful standing legs, go over some technique, and finish things off with a high-speed ankle burner! 00:00 - Thanks for dancing with me! 00:45 - Vintage Examples 02:15 - Practice Examples 03:39 - Ankle Burner Dance Along The unnamed woman in the Jenkins Orphanage clip! Bee Jackson, a white dancer who learned from Elida Webb, a Black dancer who choreographed "Runnin' Wild." She has an incredibly problematic history of trying to claim she invented Charleston and profiting from the dance and the community who created it, while simultaneously giving them no credit. Check out this clip from Gabs Happy Feet explaining it:   / dqe2jc2jrh7   Thank you, Maria Kakolowski from Patreon, for telling me that this woman is Bee Jackson. Source: https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/co... Christian Frommelt's Charleston history compilation:    • The African-American Roots of the Charlest...   MUSIC: by the Brooks Prumo Orchestra http://brooksprumoorchestra.bandcamp.... MERCH: Prints: https://www.etsy.com/shop/lauraglaessart Other: https://lauraglaess.threadless.com/ 50% of the money made from this channel is donated to organizations that support African Diasporic art forms, because Lindy Hop is a Black dance, and preserving and cultivating Blackness is very important to its identity. My current charities are: Black Lindy Hopper's Fund: https://blacklindyhoppersfund.org/ National Jazz Museum in Harlem: https://jazzmuseuminharlem.org/