“Swing!,” which opens tonight at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, is a dance show. But not the way “A Chorus Line” or “West Side Story” or “Chicago” are dance shows. While those musicals may feature some ...

This semi-formal event will be held in the lobby of the Jackson Sasser Fine Arts Hall and will include light appetizers and ...

A desire to celebrate the swing music of the 1930s and 1940s and introduce the genre to younger generations spurred Mike Denson, a lifelong saxophonist, to pen songs.

Swing bands, and the couples who moved across the dance floor to those popular tunes, ruled the roost in Westchester in the 1930s and 1940s, with hundreds of dancers showing up for a night out at Glen ...

Dance historians who research such things credit American jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway for coining the term “jitterbug.” In 1934, he recorded a lively tune, “Jitter Bug,” that some credit ...