Manu Smith

New York

Lindy Hop

Manu has been dancing lindy hop since December of 1997. The list of instructors he has studied under is very long, but his greatest influences are Janice Wilson, Steven Mitchell and the late Frankie Manning.

Since 2000 he has been dancing lindy, performing lindy, competing with lindy, teaching lindy, DJing lindy music and MCing various lindy events.

Manu was born in New York but he currently lives in San Francisco, CA. He helped run the premiere Lindy Hop dance, the 9:20 Special, for five years. He also co-founded the Lindy Hop website called Yehoodi.com.

He’s probably playing a video game right now...