Travel back in time at Pittsburgh’s hottest swing dance party

Every Wednesday evening you can enter a large yellow-walled basement rec room in Regent Square and party like it’s 1925.

You’ll be stepping into the jump-jive-and-wail world of the Pittsburgh Swing Dance Community, which celebrates Lindy Hop, Balboa, West Coast swing, jitterbug and other vintage couple dances that took shape from working-class African American roots and attained global popularity with the rise of swing and Big Band jazz music in the 1920s and ’30s.

Music for the weekly meetups at Wilkins School Community Center alternate between retro-savvy DJs and live swing music by Adam’s Aces, fronted by saxophonist Adam Lee-Morgan…

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