Word: discoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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: "Before, it wouldn't have mattered if the girl I was dancing with was at a disco a block away. There was no contact. With the Hustle you can be contemporary but close." Adds Harry Felder, 28, one of Leviticus' owners: "If you know...
...Disco Sound. Proficiency in the Hustle takes intricate footwork, energy and concentration. There are new variations of the dance every week, as couples add their own spins, dips and breaks, but basically there are two versions: a slow step, somewhat like a samba, only sexier, and an Afro-Latino style known as the Moving Hustle in Los Angeles and the Latin Hustle in New York. The steps are not easy to pick up, and dance studios report booming business. "It's an epidemic," says Cathleen Crawford, manager of Manhattan's Dale Dance Studio, where bookings have tripled...
Though New York City's blacks and Puerto Ricans have been doing the Hustle for years, its current vogue among people of all colors and ages has coincided with the explosion of "disco" sound-rhythm and blues with a strong Latin beat. "It's like a status thing," says petite New Yorker Chachi Downs, 25. "If you don't know how to do it, you're out of it." The Hustle's biggest boost nationwide came from Van Me Coy's The Hustle, which has made the national charts for an extraordinary 18 weeks...
...Baron Arnaud de Rosnay is no run-of-the-disco jet-setter. The dashing entrepreneur already has behind him careers as France's national surfboard champion, a photojournalist, a publicist and a backgammon promoter. Now, like a man who contemplates an ocean and invents the squirt gun, De Rosnay has come up with a parlor game based on the energy crisis...
...elite Institut d'Etudes Politiques, and she is strictly chaperoned by Grace. "Take one look at the girl. Can you blame her?" asks a sympathetic friend. Caroline fairly smolders whenever she gets the chance, earning admiring appraisals from Parisians or revealing almost total décolletage at a disco...