The swing style was heavily influenced by jazz and also by a multitude of popular dances from before its time, for example the Black Bottom, the Big Apple and the Turkey Trot. The swing dancing style takes its name from the type of jazz music to which swing dancing is also traditionally danced. Swing dancing is said to have been created in a club called the Savoy Ballroom. The Savoy Ballroom was a block-long dance hall in New York City and was so popular that it was frequented by many of the greatest dancers of the 1920s and 1930s such as "Shorty George" Snowden. The Savoy was so big that it always had 2 bands playing jazz, one on each end of the dance floor. Another thing that made the Savoy Ballroom so unique is that it was one of the few places at that time that was not segregated, so whites and blacks danced in the same room. A typical evening in the Savoy ballroom involved patrons starting the evening by line dancing, then pairing up based on ability and continuing to dance the night away as a couple. Usually the best dancers gather, dance together and try out new moves in a corner of the dance floor known as "cat's corner". consists largely of improvised passages. Because swing dancing involves so much improvisation, as it spread to the United States it evolved and changed, so much so that nearly every region of the United States developed its own unique style of swing dancing. Some of the most well-known types of swing dances are Jive, Lindy, Shag, Whip, Imperial, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Push and Bop. Swing is normally danced with a partner, but the general style can also be danced alone. Swing dan… middle of paper… there is a fair amount of problems, hospitals started receiving patients claiming to have “Charleston Knee”. In the mid-1920s people danced the Charleston in the Pickwick Club with such vigor that it caused its collapse, killing over 40 people. After this incident, the mayor of Boston banned the Charleston from being danced in all public ballrooms because he deemed it too dangerous. After Boston's Charleston ban, many other New England cities followed suit. But the more people tried to stop the Charleston, the more its popularity grew. As time passed, many dance halls realized they were fighting a losing battle and gave up trying to stop their patrons from dancing the Charleston. Instead, they tried to make them dance more calmly, so as not to hurt themselves or others. The Charleston became one of the greatest American dances of all time.