Other Dances that like Swing Music
Shag
In actual fact there is 'St Louis Shag', 'Carolina Shag' & 'Collegiate Shag' but 'Shag' increasingly refers to Arthur Murrays development of 'Collegiate Shag' style Best done to fast tempos. The upper body and hips hardly move as the legs do convoluted kicks and fancy footwork without reciprocal movements the foot patterns were a fast kicking 'slow, slow, quick, quick, quick ...'
West Coast Swing Fun to dance and fun to watch, its playful, often sexy, complex, and varied enough that it's never the same twice. its a fairly complicated 'lead & follow' dance to learn where the partners do not mirror each other ie: their footwork is completely different.
East Coast Swing
Easier to learn than the former styles, essentially using only 6 beat patterns it's simpler but also quite limited. Essentially, it's Lindyhop with the good stuff taken out.
Jive / Rock'n'Roll
Similar to east coast swing with a limited variety of 6 beat moves, very good for up-tempo music like rock 'n'roll (which is still huge in the UKs midlands and north).
Ballroom Jive / Modern Jive / French Jive
Typically taught by large organisations such as ceroc or blitz etc. Not strictly a Swing Dance and employs a mixed bag of 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9... beat moves and a walking style that works quite well to modern music. Modern jive is often described as being a development of french jive, but is really ballroom jive with bits of salsa added in and the footwork taken out. The French dance RocknRoll, LindyHop or Balboa, so be prepared to be disappointed if you go to France expecting to be able to dance modern jive with the locals. Still the style (as typified by ceroc) is very popular in the UK (but nowhere else other than Australia) and attracts large numbers to the classes. Its lack of a clearly identifiable style makes it very easy to incorporate other styles of dance, its absence of footwork patterns makes it easy to learn.