Know what you just don't see anymore?
Group dance crazes.
Now, I'm not talking about some lame hand motions disguised as a dance like "the pancake", or, the awkward group bobbing and weaving that occurs when it's time for Freebird! (or is that just in the South?) and no one knows quite how to dance to it.
I'm talking about real dancing, the kind where a wedding reception, or, a bar mitzvah might break out during it if you're not careful.
Wherein I embarass my kids, and, everyone under 25, here are my Top 5 Group Dance Fads:
1. The Bunny Hop
2. The Hustle (ask your parents)
3. The Electric Slide (has sound, and, a high dork factor.)
4. The Macarena
5. The Cha Cha Slide(has sound)
Maybe I'm too old to recognize any current ones, but, this is my list, and, I'm sticking to it.
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Is country line dancing still a big thing? There's the Achy Breaky, the Watermelon Crawl, and a bunch of other that I used to know well ... way back, long time ago, in another lifetime, far far away.
I'm an under 25-er and I still LOVE the Electric slide. It is a must have at weddings and family parties. Also the cha cha slide is still pretty good. As for the macarena - cringeworthy! *lol*
Where's the Time Warp?
...or the chicken dance!
Here in the midwest they are alive and well.
Weddings still have almost all the above.
High School dances still have most of the above.
I know the Macarena was done at prom last week (I saw a photo that was obviously a group macarena move).
Even my 11 year old and and her friends know the electrice slide... even though I (as a thirty something) don't - it was just a little before my time.
Did all of them at a wedding not that long ago AND we did the Macarena too....after that I don't necessarily remember anything that happened. It was a really fun wedding ;)
I LOVE the Cha Cha Slide. I have it on iTunes, it's great workout music and the kids think it's fun, too!
I find the Chicken Dance to be fun, as well. It's just hilarious seeing people strut around like a bird.
how do I not know the cha-cha slide?
I love the electric slide, hahaha. what about hte safety dance? (men without hats, you know..)
We were at a wedding reception last summer and The Boy (then 6) wandered off to do whatever it is that 6 year old boys do when bored. After a while, someone asked me, "Is that your son?"
Uh-oh. "Where?"
"On the dance floor."
That kid was Cha-Cha Sliding like a mad man.
When they asked me where he had learned to dance like that, I had to tell them "I have no idea."
I found out later that they do dances like that it P.E. Class.
Finn and I were at a mother-son dance last week and he also pulled out "The Shopping Cart", "The Lawnmower", "The Monkey" "The Thing Where You Put Your Hands On Your Knees And Cross Them Back And Forth", "The Locomotion" and then he ended it all with some Patrick Swayze-Dirty Dancing slide across the floor that ripped a hole in his brand new pants.
Dance is alive and well in the 5th grade here.
Boy has this brought back memories--not all as pleasent as others. I remember how"Cool" we thought we were when we did these. Now my son drops his head and covers his eyes. Lucky for him I don't do these in front of hiw friends.
The Alley Cat
Winchester Cathedral
(The song by The New Vaudeville Band, not the actual Cathedral )
also had their day in the sun.
And would you also count "Hand Jive" from Grease?
"Cotton candy, sweet and low, let me see that tootsie roll!"
When I was in college the Tootsie Roll was pretty popular. I don't know that it got much play outside of the 18-25 crowd, though. There was a bit of, er, pelvic action, and you needed a little alcohol to loosen your joints up enough to be able to do the actual rolling part of the dance ("dip, baby, dip!"). Ahem.
I photographed a 6th grade waltz lesson last week. As a treat the kids got to do the electric slide for the last 10 minutes.
Me? Too spastic for line dances, I can barely do the hokey pokey and they call out directions.
come on come on and doooooo
the locomotion with me
Of course, here in Texas we all do the riverdance thing with the legs kicking. Or, maybe that's just a recurring dream I have...
good times!
I'm having "Skate" flashbacks... 'back to therapy, I guess.
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Ok.. so the Electric Slide I did in my back yard on my wedding day.. I didn't have a formal reception. It just wasn't us.
I also did the Cotton Eyed Joe.
The Time Warp and the Chicken Dance are a MUST at major gatherings.
I think we do all of the ones you listed at weddings around these parts. We are odd country folk I suppose. I also can still do the Bird from the Time song. Yes I am a crazy woman.
I thought the Freebird dance was swaying with lighter raised in the air.
Many years ago, before the Macarena made it's way to the U.S. I was vacationing in Costa Rica. My buddy and I went to a restaurant/ Night Club in San Jose. We were dancing to fairly generic music when suddenly the Macarena came on. Every single person in the place knew the dance except us! We always laughed about that Crazy dance and couldn't believe it when it came and conquered the U.S.
Y.M.C.A. counts, doesn't it?