Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Big Apple is a line dance. It began at the Big Apple Night Club in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, around 1936. [[1] One person, or a couple would stand in the middle of a circle and would call out moves for everyone else in the circle to perform at the same time. Frankie Manning (and ?) choreographed a version of this dance for the movie "Keep Punchin", which featured Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. A video of the movie can be found at http://www.brotherswing.com/IMG/avi/joe2-n.avi See also Big apple (dance move) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.