Music from the Roaring Twenties plays as The Garden Valley Flappers from Tyler Senior Center begin to dance The Charleston, kicking, spinning and wiggling, turning their knees inward and kicking out ...

At the height of the Roaring Twenties, flappers took to the floor, arms flailing and feet kicking to a new beat: the Charleston. A century later, the dance still captivates—especially for performer, ...

The wild women of 1920s dance didn't just get everyone doing the Charleston and the Grizzly Bear. Stars like Josephine Baker and Tallulah Bankhead also played a pivotal role in women's emancipation In ...

When WWI ended, the world was a very different place. Women were gaining more and more respect, and as the hemlines got higher, the morals of the time got a little looser. The fever pitch of the ...

MORE THAN A CENTURY after they began, the Roaring ’20s continue to exert a potent gravitational pull. The Charleston dance, flappers, the yearslong economic boom followed by a spectacular bust—almost ...

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