Swing dance is an umbrella term which encompasses many vintage/vernacular American Jazz styles including Charleston, balboa, shag, jitterbug and Lindy hop. These dances paved the way for the later swing dances such as boogie-woogie, rock ‘n’ roll. west and east coast swing and jive. We Mersey Swing folk focus on the early swing styles, and specialise in the grandaddy of them all – the Lindy hop!