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Lee Moates and Tonita Malau show off their winning dance moves during a Lindy Hop contest at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom on April 24, 1953. The dance style emerged decades earlier during the Great Depression, when dance marathons provided opportunities to vie for cash prizes.

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