Bees Knees Dance Study

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Classic Swing Era Jazz Steps

Boogie Forward
Boogie Back
Shorty George
Truckin’
Suzy Q
Fall Off the Log
Camel Walks
Apple Jacks
Spank the Baby
Jump Charleston
Crazy Legs
Baggy Pants/Cool Breeze in the Knees
Rubber Legs
Tack Annies
Shim Sham Break
Half Break
Tick Tocks
Scarecrow
Pimp Walk
Shine your Shoes
Slip Slop
Skating
Fish Tails
Mess Around
Bees Knees
Snake Hips
Duck Walks
Helicopter
Scissor Step/Kicks
Hitch Hiking
Eagle Slide
Dust your Apron
Around the World Charleston
Skip Up
Savoy Kicks
Gaze Afar
Broken Leg
Squat Charleston
Pecking
Boogie drops

THE BIG APPLE
Danced in a large circle to Flying Home.
(This is the “Ithaca” Big Apple)

Sweeps	Jump in & turn out	Reach in & out	Boogie Forward
Boogie Back	Boogie Forward	Boogie Back	Apple Jacks
Apple Jacks (turn out)	Jump & Gaze Afar	Suzy Q Left	Suzy Q Right
Dust your Apron in & Out	Dust your apron to your partner and around	Spank the Baby	Spank the Baby
Jump Charleston	Jump Charleston	Jump Charleston	Break
REPEAT!

THE SHIM SHAM!
Lindy Hop version of the 1927 Tap dance by Leonard Reed and Willie Bryant.
Traditionally danced to Stompin’ at the Savoy, Tuxedo Junction or T’aint Whatcha Do.

Right Shim Sham	Left Shim Sham	Right Shim Sham	SHIM SHAM BREAK
Crossover Right	Crossover Left	Crossover Right	Double Cross
Tack Annie	Tack Annie	Tack Annie	SHIM SHAM BREAK
Half Breaks	SHIM SHAM BREAK	Half Breaks	SHIM SHAM BREAK
Repeat above first 4 phrases
Kick Boogie Back	\| Boogie Forward	Kick Boogie Back	Boogie Forward
Jump Boogie Back	Shorty George	Jump Boogie Back	Shorty George
Take a partner and dance!

You might enjoy the lyrics to this 1930s Ellington tune:

That Lindy Hop
Come do that lindy hop,
And You will never stop,
I'm tellin' you that's what
the new rage is!

You'll fall outrageously,
Contageous as can be,
It makes the old folks laugh
at their ages!

Watch the way that they go,
It puts new life in their shoes,
Cures them of Lumbago --
lifts them right out of their blues!

It's tight that lindy hop,
Just right that lindy hop,
That dance will live on history's pages!

(Razaf/Blake)

Photo borrowed from the Duke Ellington website