Iylia was drawn to swing dancing through his love of jazz music ... whether you want to keep it relaxed with the basic “rock step, triple step” or make your moves more elaborate, everyone ...

And you’ve heard of aerials. No, not the high flying silks… the swing dance air steps that date back to the days of the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. It was a time when dancing took a major turn.

Mariah put on her dancing shoes and joined Huntsville Swing Dance Society for a quick two-step in the studio Friday.

Bryn Anderson, another champion and Rutland’s dance partner, described West Coast Swing’s smoothed-out versions of standard swing steps as “a pretty spare syllabus.” Its stripped-down ...