This article is about the dance move. For other uses, see Shimmy (disambiguation).
1918 sheet music "Everybody Shimmies Now" with Mae WestWhen the Alamo Theater in Atlanta used a cutout display of Viola Dana with separately mounted shoulders and a mechanism to do a shimmy for the film The Chorus Girl's Romance (1920), the chief of police ordered the mechanism turned off.[1]
A shimmy is a dance move in which the body is held still, except for the shoulders, which are quickly alternated back and forth. When the right shoulder goes back, the left one comes forward.
^"Shimmying Cutout Draws Atlanta Police Interference". Exhibitors Herald. 11 (24). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 54. December 11, 1920.
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