Word: boogalooing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City Center Jeffrey Ballet invited Tharp to put on Deuce Coupe, a freestyle piece matching up pas de bourrees and the boogaloo to the sun-and-surf music of the Beach Boys...
What is most striking about the Hustle is that it is graceful-and it is danced, not improvised. After years of the frug, the boogaloo, the monkey and similar "hang-loose" mating rituals consisting of uncoordinated grinds, bounces and St. Vitus-like contortions that had men and women dancing at each other, the Hustle brings back basic steps-elaborations on a tap, 1-2-3,4-5-6 arrangement-and stylized arm movements in which the dancers are partners again. At the B.B.C. (for Bombay Bicycle Club) on Chicago's Near North disco row, Songwriter-Composer Robbin Grand explains...
Kung Fu is essentially an Oriental successor to the Bump, which in turn was preceded on the dance floor by the Philly-Dog, the Boston Monkey, the Boogaloo, the Frug, the Roach, the Pony, the Watusi, the Mashed Potato, Jack-the-Ripper, the Fly, La Pachanga, the Dish Rag, the Slop, the Hully Gully, the Horse, the Twist and the Madison (renamed the Stomp). And before that, as exhumed by late-night World War II movies, there was Frank Sinatra jitterbugging...
...movers in this process, it was the Rolling Stones who most directly and simply reawakened in us a sense of our own bodies, of the pure joy of dancing to the point of collapse. The Beatles were somehow too sweet, and Dylan never was much good for doing the boogaloo to, but the Stones celebrated the physical side of our natures, which in most cases had been long buried. (It is a sign of the abysmal racism of both the counterculture and the parent culture from which it sprang that the Stones--like Elvis, a decade earlier--became vastly popular...
...buxom, energetic, middle-aged woman in a sleek lavendar gown with a Vellucci streamer pinned across her front did a bouncy boogaloo past the bandstand. "Want to know my name? I'm Mary Castriatta, chairman of the Cambridge Housing Authority," she said...