Abbreviated Tranky Doo History- Lindy Hop and Swing Dance
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The Tranky Doo is a vintage routine that was choreographed by Frankie Manning in the 1940s, and is done by Lindy Hoppers all over the world. However, the version that dancers do today is not what Frankie choreographed, and the various discrepancies between all of the video versions - to me - makes this dance exciting and mysterious! In this video, we'll talk about the inspiration for the Tranky Doo (chorus girls), some of the original versions (Love & Syncopation by Tops and Wilda and the Spirit Moves by Leon James, Pepsi Bethel, and Al Minns), as well as some of the choices that we make today.
VERSIONS OF THE TRANKIE DOO
- Tops & Wilda, Love & Syncopation: • WHITEY'S LINDY HOPPERS...
- Spirit Moves: • Tranky Doo
- Spirit Moves Redubbed to a song that matches: • The Trankey Do - Spiri...
SOURCES
- Jazz Dance, Jene & Marshall Sterns
- Frankie Manning, Ambassador of Lindy Hop
- Swungover: swungover.word...
MUSIC:
The Brooks Prumo Orchestra
brooksprumoorch...
MERCH:
Prints: www.etsy.com/s...
Other: lauraglaess.th...
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: blacklindyhopp...
National Jazz Museum in Harlem: jazzmuseuminha...
Keep up the good work, Laura!
A few more notes I can add here:
*The chorus line dancer that Frankie and his friends were inspired by was named Roberta. She was out of Chicago. Her nickname was "Tranky Doo."
*The steps she did were only up through the boogies (1/2 chorus). As Frankie saw it, the original Tranky Doo routine was ONLY this section (as that's what they saw Roberta perform). Anything else was just what he and others added.
*Frankie would also teach it using Jersey Bounce. He did so in Hudson, WI in 1992.
Like the brook's sound part lol
scared me a little haha
I know you guys say it at the end of the ALL the videos I've watched, but...
You said: "Half the money I get from this channel goes toward organizations that support African diasporic artists and art, because Lindy Hop is a Black dance, and that's important to its identity."
Response: Not all Black people in the United States came from Africa. I'm pretty sure that the people that were referred to as "Black" in the time when Lindy Hop-related dances came to prominence were not "African" anymore. They were AMERICAN. A "Jamaican-American" would be considered "Black" as well as a true "African-American" person (i.e., someone from Africa with U.S. citizenship), in this country. The terms "Black" and "White" are, in and of themselves, insensitive-there are several different kinds of each of those classifications-but they are used in the same way as the word "Asian" in order to simplify things. You can't necessarily tell what kind of "Black", "White" or "Asian" any individual is just by looking at them, so it's easy to just say "that [such-and-such] person". And while I'm at it, not all people with "afro hair" would consider themselves "Black". I, myself, naturally have "afro hair", but carrying 50% "Asian-American" blood, and having been raised in an environment that was heavily influenced by THOSE cultures, I cannot consider myself to be "Black". It could only ever be INSENSITIVE for anyone to call me that under the circumstances. I do not look Black, or feel Black, and I never have. Growing up, I didn't have any relatives around me that could show me how to manage my hair, and I was the only one in my family with hair like mine. Aside from relaxer kits, Black haircare and culture was mostly foreign to me for most of my life. I am a "Mixed-American", and a very lonely one at that. The "Asian-American" side of my family proved to me that just because you came from them, it doesn't make you one of them. Maybe the "Black" people that have expectations of me to feel a sense of BELONGING to them, just because of the way my natural hair grows out, will consider that one day. We have similar hair, but are from completely different walks of life. How could I still be considered "Black" if I'm not considered "Asian" either? FYI, neither I, nor my biological father, who was also not just "Black", have ever set foot in any African country in our lives. Perhaps, the Universe made me in order to stress the fact that not all the people calling themselves by that term are what they think they are. It's just easier, right? If only it were "easy" for me to ignore what I DIDN'T grow up with, that "Black" people are actually more "exotic" to me than "Asians", and that having people come up to me and expect me to understand Spanish has become something that I should expect. I'M NOT "BLACK". Is my admission of that obvious fact really so offensive? Several "Black" people have behaved as though they are offended by me for being honest with them about it. Like if they can't put a "claim" on me, it makes them angry. I'm not "Black"... and they're not "African".
From archives.gov:
"Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States."
Thank you for all the helpful videos/information, btw. I have learned a lot since I stumbled upon your channel, and am thoroughly enjoying it.
P.S. ASIAN (AND OTHER) LIVES MATTER, TOO.
I can't pretend that those people deserve to be SWALLOWED and denied credit for all the things I was introduced to during my upbringing that made it what it was. Maybe my family members weren't the best (on either side) to me, but not all of the Asian people I have encountered in my life have been so cruel. I have fond memories of a few of them for being good people to me, regardless of what their ethnic heritage was. I REFUSE to deny that part of my heritage, because someone might get mad at me for being honest about it. I am proud enough of what I am, whether or not anyone else is. Why can't they be? Why would I have to lie about who and what I am in order to make them happy? If I won't call myself "Black", because it's not true, that is something to SHUN me for?
I know that not all Black people are in on that, but enough of them have been to the point that I am AFRAID to be honest with them. How can I get close to those people, or embrace them if they won't do that for me? Why don't THEY care where THEY come from?
From explorehouma.com:
"In present Louisiana, Creole generally means a person or people of mixed colonial French, African American and Native American ancestry. The term Black Creole refers to freed slaves from Haiti and their descendants."
Q: THEY'RE "BLACK"?
Q: All the rest of the people that contributed their part to making those DON'T MATTER??? Seriously?
Q: How and why would the "African" heritage be magically more important than all the other "colors" in there?
That "one-drop rule" is insensitive and racist. Just saying.
Q: WOULD IT BE FAIR TO SAY THAT YOU GUYS DON'T MATTER, AND WILL NEVER BE WORTH MENTIONING AS PRESERVERS OF THE "LINDY HOP COMMUNITY", BECAUSE YOU'RE "WHITE PEOPLE" TALKING ABOUT A "BLACK DANCE"... JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT BLACK???
That's what it would be like from the other way around. With everything that you're putting into it, it's not fair, right?