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The Shim Sham - oldie but goodie The Shim Sham - 1928 Jazz Dance This routine was created by Leonard Reed & Willie Bryant. The original version is a tap routine and was commonly used as a finishing ensemble for cabaret shows with all the performers. Through the years it was taken by vernacular Jazz dancers where they played around with the styling of the steps. Frankie Manning famously performed this routine and passed it on to the rest of the world. You can learn directly from the master himsel

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The History of the Shim Sham Originating from a style of dance termed the ‘Goodus’ in the late 1920s, the Shim Sham Shimmy was first performed on stage in Harlem in the early 1930s as a closing routine that would get all of the singers, dancers and performers on stage together with the audience joining in. It wasn’t until some lindy hoppers at the Savoy Ballroom did the Shim Sham as a group line dance (without the taps) that the dance style really took to fame. In the mid-1980s, the Shim Sham wa

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