VIDEO: Elderly Couple Tears It Up During Dance Competition

Swing was a very popular dance style in the 1920s and lasted until the 1940s, but it is still considered one of the most iconic ones to this day. An elderly couple put on an absolutely stunning show at a swing dance competition in Landshut, Germany. They never missed a beat and everyone could tell just how intense they were feeling the music. The crowed fell in love them and you will, too!

According to Wikipedia, “Swing dance” is a group of dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s-1940s, with the origins of each dance predating the popular “swing era”. During the swing era, there were hundreds of styles of swing dancing, but those that have survived beyond that era include: Lindy Hop, Balboa, Collegiate Shag,Charleston. Today, the most well-known of these dances is the Lindy Hop, which originated in Harlem in the early 1930s. While the majority of swing dances began in African American communities as vernacular African American dances, a swing era dance, like Balboa, developed outside of these communities.

The term “swing dancing” is often extended to include other dances that do not have certain characteristics of traditional swing dances: West Coast Swing, Carolina Shag, East Coast Swing, Hand Dancing, Jive, Rock and Roll, Modern Jive, and other dances developed during the 1940s and later. A strong tradition of social and competitive boogie woogie and Rock ‘n’ Roll in Europe add these dances to their local swing dance cultures.

Somewhat surprisingly, “swing dance” was not commonly used to identify a group of dances until the latter half of the 20th century. Historically, the term “Swing” referred to the style of jazz music, which inspired the evolution of the dance.

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The dance style known as “swing” was popular in the 1920s and lasted until the 1940s, but is still considered one of the most iconic dances out there. If you’ve never heard of it or have never seen it before, get ready, because the couple in the video below are about to knock your socks off!

Filmed in Landshut, Germany, the video below is taken at a competition, one that set out to prove who the best dancers were!

The video was originally posted by Werner Hoffmann and posted on his Facebook page, where it has received over 3.5 million views, along with tens of thousands of likes and shares!

Hoffmann filmed an elderly couple who were contestants in the contest.

Judges sat behind them, awaiting their performance.

The man, dressed to the nines, and his date, in a vibrant green dress, put on an absolutely stunning show. They never missed a beat, and you just have to take one look to understand how much they were feeling the music.

The crowd was positively in love with the elderly couple, especially when the man began dipping and tossing the woman around. They looked professionally trained!

The video below just goes to show the power of music, and how age is nothing but a number — especially when it comes to swing dancing!

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