Lindy Hop origins: The first Swing Dance is Texas Tommy Swing (also called Texas Tommy) created by Afro-Americans in California by 1910, partly a reworking of polka, and spreading to New York City in 1911. Charleston may have developed out of Texas Tommy steps (the name Charleston comes from a dance show called Charleston which was performed in New York City), although some believe Charleston’s origins are in the 19th century, and some of Charleston’s origin long before that in Africa. Once swing dancing reached Harlem, New York circa 1911 it developed further. In the 1920s before the name Lindy Hop was used, the swing dancing done at Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom was called Two Step and Break Aways. The styles of Lindy Hop generally done around the world today are close to Lindy Hop as done in the later 1930s and into the 1940s. (1928 Lindy Hop is similar in structure to subsequent Lindy Hop, but significant modifications were made in the 1930s.) One of the great Lindy Hoppers of the 1930s is the much loved Frankie Manning who is regarded by many as the greatest Lindy Hopper of all time, and who also taught Lindy Hop around the world from about 1985 until his death in April, 2008.