A Whitey's Lindy Hopper Inspired Stops Routine - For Lindy Hop and Swing Dance

Support my channel by going to   / lauraglaess   Instagram:   / lauraglaess   When people think of the Stops routine today, they're probably thinking of "First Stops," the routine taught by Sugar and George Sullivan, and the Mama Lou Parks dancers. This is not that routine. If you want to learn THAT routine, learn it from Crystal Johnson, David Butts, Deborah Youngblood, and many other Mama Lou Parks dancers who still teach that routine today. The original Stops routine, invented by Frankie Manning in the mid 1930s, was the first coordinated Lindy Hop team routine - meaning all couples did the same thing at the same time. However, no one knows what that original routine looked like. Bobby White and I have compiled 4 sources to create this fan fiction of what we imagine that routine might have looked like. Interview About Stops w/ Sugar Sullivan and Barbara Billups:    • Barbara Billups and Sugar Sullivan Intervi...   VIDEO SOURCES: Playboy Clip:    • Al Minns & Leon James "The Playboy Clip"   Reunion Video:    • Sonny Allen Lindy Hop Reunion at Sandra Ca...   Al Minns in Sweden:    • Al Minns in Sweden   Bobby's Blog: http://www.swungover.com 00:00 - Intro & Demo 00:57 - What is Stops? 02:40 - Our Sources 03:39 - Build up the Solo Section - TOBA 04:30 - Geekery 05:30 - Next Solo Section - Big Apple Section 06:00 - The Whole Solo Section 06:45 - A Few Details 07:30 - Build up Trickeration Transition 07:50 - Build up Partnered Section 08:18 - More Breakdown 09:32 - The Whole Thing with Counts 10:40 - The Whole Thing with Music 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/ Resources:Biographies of Dancers: https://www.firehouseswingdance.com/h... From Juba to Jitterbug: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014... What Makes it Black? https://whatmakesthatblack.net/2018/0... Playlist:    • Free to Dance (a history of African Americ...   What is Lindy Hop: http://swingwithusnyc.com/what-is-lin...