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BIOGRAPHIES   
First Generation: 
Shorty George  
Leroy Stretch Jones 
Twistmouth George 
The Golden Age:   
Whitey's Lindy Hprs. 
Tiny Bunch 
Congaroo Dancers 
Sandra Gibson 
George Grenidge 
Leon James 
Ann Johnson 
Dorothy  Johnson 
Norma Miller 
Al Minns 
Frankie Manning 
Billy Ricker 
Willa Mae Ricker 
Russell Williams  
 
MOVIES   
 After Seben 
The Big Apple 
Call Of The Jitterbug  
Can't Top the LHop 
Cootie Williams 
Cottontail 
Day At The Races  
Chicago & 
All That Jazz  
Frankie Manning 
 Instructional Videos  
Hellzapoppin' 
Hot Chocolates  
Jammin'the Blues  
Jittering Jitterbugs 
Killer Diller  
Malcolm X  
Manhattan  
Merry-Go-Round 
 
A wonderfully athletic and agile dancer, Ann Johnson was Frankie Manning's partner in Whitey's Lindy Hoppers in 1940-1942. Manning says she was like a cat: " No matter what way I threw her, she would land on her feet...She was also a wonderful human being.".  

She appeared with Manning twice in Life Magazine, once anonymously in 1940 in a photo of the aerial "Over the Head" sent in by a reader, the second in a great 1941 photo story by W.Eugene Smith which captures her mid-air and throughout an aerial step sequence . 

As a member of Whitey's primo group The Harlem Congaroos, Ann's remarkable dancing can be seen in the feature film Hellzapoppin'and in the popular soundieHot Chocolates 

From 1947-1952 Ann Johnson was Manning's partner in the Congaroos and danced in the film Killer Diller

 Over the Head- Ann appears to fly.