She was known as the Queen of Swing, a dancer who helped make famous the lindy hop, a fast-paced, acrobatic dance popular during the Big Band era of the 1930s and 1940s. On Sunday, the queen, Norma ...
Norma Miller, a dancer, comedian and big-band singer whose acrobatic flips, slides, leaps and twists helped popularize the Lindy Hop dance craze of the 1930s and ’40s, earning her the title “Queen of ...
When she was a little girl, Norma Miller would perch on the fire escape of her tenement building in Harlem, watching dancers spin through the Savoy Ballroom across the street. By the age of 15, she ...