JOE LANZA
Joe Lanza
April 20th 1923-
January 27th 2011
- Created the Bossa Nova dance.
- 1951 Valentine Tango
Contest Trophy winner at The Hollywood Palladium.
- Authored over thirty
books ranging from children's stories to instructional books on dancing
and tennis.
- Musical composer of over thirty songs of 1950's vintage.
- Organized the first succesful dance club in the US, the Hollywood Dance
Club (1954).
- Documented the Dean
Collins Lindy Technique in his latest book "Strictly Swing The Dean Collins Way."
- Lanza's "Triple Jumping
Jack" has never been duplicated since 1955.
- The ONLY acrobatic Swing
dancer in films. Danced in and choreographed over 50
stage, television and movie musicals.
Is now in the process off supplementing
"Strictly Swing" with an additional 200 pages of information and over
100 vintage photos.
Additional pages and photos are being added every week by Joe Lanza. Come back often!
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Winner of the Rudolf
Valentino Tango Trophy 1952 Joe Lanza was the only acrobatic Swing dancer in rock and roll films in the 20th century. Lanza orginated the 'Back Flip Whip,' 'The Lanza Flip,' and the 'Triple Jumping Jack.' 'The Triple Jumping Jack' has never been duplicated. Lanza will introduce a new Lindy aerial this fall, 'The Lanza Butterfly.' Joe Lanza created, produced and directed an orginal musical show for ABC-TV in 1957, the 'Let's Dance Show.' It ran 50 hours of dance contests in Swing, Tango, Samba, and Cha-Cha. Lanza performed in sixty TV musicals and over twenty Hollywood films.Just a few of his credits include :
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