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Dancing Twist, East Berlin, 17 May 1964
Novelty and fad dances are dances which are typically characterized by a short burst of popularity. Some of them, like the Twist, Y.M.C.A. and the Hokey Pokey, have shown much longer-lasting lives. They are also called dance fads or dance crazes.
longer-lasting lives. They are also called dance fads or dancecrazes. As the pop music market got bombed in the late 1950s, dance fads were commercialized and exploited...
DanceCraze is a 1981 documentary film about the British 2 Tone music genre. The film was directed by Joe Massot, who originally wanted to do a film only...
original on 25 August 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2019. "A history of Afropop dancecrazes from Azonto to Kukere and everything in-between". Red Bull. Archived...
such as jazz. Since dance is to a large extent tied to music, this led to a burst of newly invented dances. There were many dancecrazes in the period 1910–1930...
ranked by The Guardian at number 10 on their list of "greatest pop music dancecrazes". In April 2019 his follow-up single "Keisha & Becky" with Tion Wayne...
performed in New York, and the dance became especially popular at the "better" night clubs. As with most dancecrazes, other well-known orchestras did...
with Leonard Capizzi in May 1962 as a spoof of popular contemporary dancecrazes. Pickett's performances include impersonations of Boris Karloff (The...
A line dance is a choreographed dance in which a group of people dance along to a repeating sequence of steps while arranged in one or more lines or rows...
weeks between August and November 1996. Its resurgence was aided by a dancecraze that became a cultural phenomenon throughout the latter half of 1996...
(2016), "TT" (2016), "Signal" (2017), and "What Is Love?" (2018)—became dancecrazes and viral memes imitated by many celebrities.[by whom?] On December 19...
were later added by Roy Alfred. The song became a crossover hit and a dancecraze, in many ways foreshadowing the popular success of rock and roll a few...
MC Groovz DanceCraze is a rhythm game for the GameCube developed and published by Mad Catz. The game is a DanceDance Revolution clone and was bundled...
of American Vernacular Dance. New York City: Macmillan. pp. 322–329. White, Shelley. "Everyday I'm Shufflin': Top 10 DanceCrazes". AOL.com. Retrieved September...
Early appearances included Top of the Pops and the live film documentary DanceCraze (1981). They were at their most popular during the early 1980s, during...
sixtiescity.com Archived March 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Sixties Dance and DanceCrazes R. Aquila, That old-time rock & roll: a chronicle of an era, 1954–1963...
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