Venice Beach Swing Dancers ( LA Swing, Bal Swing, Shag) ( September, 1938)

A Swungover (tm) collection of different snippets of the Venice Beach clip, (some of which are repeats). Film shows a group of LA Swing dancers probably promoting a local California swing dance contest in September, 1938. The dancers doing LA Swing (early form of BalSwing) are Hal and Betty Takier (man in white top, black pants, does the move that takes them to the ground); Jack Helwig and Genevieve Grazis (couple in all white); Richard Dick Landry in the striped top, dancing with the shorter unknown woman; Collegiate Shag couple is Connie Wydell and possibly Barbara Plum. This style of dancing is today placed under the blanket term Balboa, though these original dancers thought of Balboa as a separate kind of dance (what we now refer to as Pure Balboa. ) For more info, please visit