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We are Norma Miller “Let’s Swing at Pirikita’s”
11:34 CAT | 26 September 2019
We are Norma Miller “Let’s Swing at Pirikita’s”
Date and Time: Sunday, October 6 2019 from 13h00 to 21h00
Entrance: Free
Address: Restaurante e Galeria Pirikitas, Polana Canico, Maputo
About the event
Hodi Maputo Afro Swing Cultural Association in collaboration with Piriquita's Restaurant and Gallery holds another event to honor swing queen Norma Miller. It will be an afternoon full of activities with Hodi Swing Junior. The event will be multidisciplinary featuring dance, music, poetry and various other cultural expressions.
About Norma Miller
Norma Adele Miller (December 2, 1919 – May 5, 2019) was an American Lindy Hop dancer, choreographer, actress, author, and comedian known as the "Queen of Swing".
Norma Miller was born in Harlem, New York into mother Alma and father Norman, a soldier, both from Bridgetown, Barbados. She was named after her father, who died from pneumonia a month before her birth. She had an older sister, Dot. Young Miller took dance lessons from a young age. During the Great Depression, Miller and her family moved to an apartment near the Savoy Ballroom.
On Easter Sunday in 1932, when Miller was 12 years old, she was dancing outside the Savoy Ballroom, too young to enter. She was approached by George “Twist Mouth” Ganaway, "the greatest dancer at the Savoy," who was impressed with her dancing. Twist Mouth asked Miller to immediately be his partner in a competition occurring in the ballroom, which they won, before Miller was escorted back outside. Later that year, Miller entered the Savoy Lindy Hop Contest, held at the Apollo Theater. Miller entered with one of her high school friends, Sonny Ashby, and they won the contest. The performance prompted Herbert "Whitey" White, the dance master at the Savoy, to ask Miller to join his group, Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. (Source: https://aaregistry.org)
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