But none of this quite matches the power of the jitterbugging.

The men get a high-kick chorus line, and couples break into a little jitterbugging.

And there was boisterous jitterbugging.

No jitterbugging.

In the closing section, however, the dancers let loose with sunny, stylish expertise in a jitterbugging, pumping, dashing free-for-all.

Bands playing Western Swing attracted "people (who) were top-notch jitterbugging, jumping around, cutting loose and going crazy" during the 1940s and into the 1950s.

Suddenly the yanks and pulls often found in Varone choreography are transformed into the yanks and pulls of stylized jitterbugging.

The ball, one of four such audience participation events in a festival that focuses on professional dance companies from the United States, even suggested that jitterbugging has a future.

Robert Montano is a commandingly effective fallen wannabe star and moves fabulously in all genres - American jitterbugging, Hispanic traditional, universal ballroom.

We salute the anti-couch potato TV trend: a growing posse of shows make you want to hop up and join in on the jitterbugging, racing, and body-transforming action.

Noel Hall, C. Scoby Stroman and Mickey Davidson, the event's director and choreographer, did some uninhibited jitterbugging in "Harlem Stomp."

The stylized jitterbugging for the ensemble sets the tone, but the highlight is a hilarious "Saber Dance," to a Johnny Puleo recording, danced with accelerated zombie-like flair by the company.

The fragrant sadness of Janis Kelly in Street Scene counterpointed by the ebullient jitterbugging of Catherine Zeta Jones and Philip Gould as the young lovers risking careless rupture.

Ron Delsener, a New York concert promoter whose company handles events at arenas like the Roseland ballroom and Madison Square Garden, said that moshing is to the 1990's what jitterbugging was to the 1940's.

Classical ballet and jitterbugging were happy dancing partners when the Ohio Ballet presented "Kings of Swing" on Sunday afternoon at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College.

In popular culture, it became generalized to mean swing dancers themselves, or a type of swing dance - for example "they danced the jitterbug", or the act of swing dancing - "People were top-notch jitterbugging, jumping around, cutting loose and going crazy".