Tranky Doo

Laura Glaess is a well-known lindy hop & jazz dance instructor. She has one of the most popular youtube channels around black jazz dance forms of the period.

She does a nice job of presenting the material in an accessible and easily digestible format.

Here’s her piece on the “Tranky Doo” routine

A few more notes I can add here:

*The chorus line dancer that Frankie and his friends were inspired by was named Roberta. She was out of Chicago. Her nickname was "Tranky Doo."

*The steps she did were only up through the boogies (1/2 chorus). As Frankie saw it, the original Tranky Doo routine was ONLY this section (as that's what they saw Roberta perform). Anything else was just what he and others added.

*Frankie would also teach it using Jersey Bounce. He did so in Hudson, WI in 1992.