ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月10日 22時08分

She’s the Queen of Swing. Norma Miller, 98, grew up in an apartment behind the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. “The Savoy was a very important place socially for black people to go and mix and mingle,” she said. Recently, an evening lecture at the Herrang Dance Camp in Sweden, offered a glimpse into the life of a woman whose dancing took her from the sidewalks of Harlem, where the “loose-and-let-go” Lindy Hop was born in the 1920s, to the ballrooms of Europe, where it flourished through the 1940s. The still lively and salty-tongued Queen, who keeps her nails painted the signature red and white of her performance days, ended her lecture by jokingly, but sincerely, thanking white dancers for keeping the #LindyHop alive. In an interview, Norma said she remembered hearing the big bands from the fire escape window and longing to be inside the club. On Easter Sunday in 1932, one of the Savoy’s top dancers, Twistmouth George, saw 12-year-old Norma dancing on the sidewalk outside the club and invited her inside to perform with him. That chance encounter jump-started her career. Visit the link in our profile to read more about Norma, who was photographed here by @erika_gerdemark.

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