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Swing Patrol and the Jive Aces teamed together with music and dance to create this submission below for the London Olympic Committee in June 2011

We love this little bit of footage from the London Swing Festival 2011. A Shim Sham for Frankie Manning’s Birthday.

Swing Patrol celebrate the Royal Wedding in 2011 by dancing away at the Leonard Street Royal Wedding Street Party in Shoreditch.

Swing Patrol in the Jive Aces’ “Bring Me Sunshine” music video

Swing Patrol featured in a commercial for Bupa’s “Helping You Find Healthy” campaign. You can watch the commercial here.

“Fitness Workshop: Lindy Hop”, The Telegraph, 8 November 2010

Swing Patrol perform their “Traffic Jam” routine at the Royal Albert Hall, July 2010

In 2009 Scott Cupit took to Trafalgar Square’s famous Fourth Plinth as part of Antony Gormley’s One And Other arts project, stopping hundreds of rush hour commuters in their tracks as he gave an impromptu swing dance class. About 100 students from Swing Patrol came along to perform with Scott. More than 14,000 people applied […]

A highlight of our first year in London was the hour Scott Cupit spent on the Plinth in Trafalgar Square. Named as one of the top 10 out of 2400 hours.

Roadtrip Nation is an Australian documentary series covering people who define their own road in life.

CARLY ROBB I get to give you all a brief overview of the performance troupes that Frankie was involved with, in particular Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, and some of the work that the group did in Hollywood.  Some of the material on the web is a little contradictory, and dates can be hard to come by, […]