Anders Lind also took the opportunity to take some classes with Norma Miller.
He had Parkinson's disease, said a longtime friend, the dancer Norma Miller, The Associated Press reported.
From the tone of a recent article by Norma Miller, "The Benefits of Unemployment" (Opinion page), it sounds as if Ms. Miller's experience was not too terrible.
In 2007, over seventy instructors were featured during the five weeks, including original dancers from the swing era such as Frankie Manning, Norma Miller, and Dawn Hampton.
Lindy Hop historians also draw clear distinctions between the dancing styles of key female dancers such as Norma Miller and Ann Johnson.
Appropriately enough, then, the weekend's first event is an hourlong lecture-demonstration this afternoon at Lincoln Center by Frankie Manning and Norma Miller.
Norma Miller (born 2 December 1919 in Harlem, New York) is an American swing dancer known as "The Queen of Swing".
There is even a fabulously theatricalized Lindy ("Jumpin' the Blues") staged by two guest choreographers, the veteran swing dance champions Frank Manning and Norma Miller.
While with Whitey's, Manning also danced with Norma Miller, who became known as the Queen of Swing.
As Norma Miller says in her memoir, "Although Harlem created it, the Lindy belongs to everyone".