Some communities would even still hang on to the earlier white name for Lindy Hop and call it Jitterbug. Essentially, these are all dances based on Lindy Hop, but they started to bounce more and become less horizontally stretchy than Lindy Hop; instead the dances of the 50s and early 60s tend to be more contained and while they still have some elastic, they connection is tighter and shorter and the posture is more vertical.
That is not our focus in St. Rather, our dancing is based on a fun, care free and not overly complicated approach to social dancing. Ultimately though, most of these dances fizzled out once the Twist came along in the early 60s which put an end to partnered dancing as part of popular culture.
Though a variety of other dances do catch some interest, Lindy Hoppers primarily tend to branch into various Solo Vernacular Jazz deances authentic solo Jazz and Charleston steps , Balboa, and Blues dancing. These dances are closely tied with Lindy Hop, and the occasional spot of Shag.
Mostly these dances are compatible with Lindy Hop because they can also be danced to the same kind of music, as can Tap. Get out there and enjoy! Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Rockabilly is also perceived to have more 'attitude' There is a big Rockabilly scene in Brisbane, and since moving to Melbourne have been very disappointed to not be able to find Rockabilly dance lessons, as I prefer it to Rock'n'Roll.
Join Date Aug Posts Everyone overthinks this one. Long before the days of swing being taught and the distinctions in style that was discussed at the formation of the VRRDA Steps weren't seen to be any different and the idea of 'teaching' rockabilly was laughed at. There was no discussion of It was not that prescriptive. I think the confusion comes in the fact that we try to prescribe all dance types now and that was never really how it was in the good ol' days.
Rockabilly was quite basic with exaggerated hand or head movements, men often put their left hand in the top of their belt and only used their right hand. There wasn't a whole lot of turns done, or needed, because it was all about the music and not about the dancing.
Rockabilly people were a breed apart from the general rock'n'roll crowd. It was about the music, the bands and the cars rather than the dancing. Many men just stood at the bar or at the front of the stage watching the band or bopping. A lot of women danced together, many more than you see now. It was cool without trying to be cool Maybe you had to live it to understand, it's too hard to quantify into what steps are rockabilly and what aren't.
And Rockabilly is so much more than just how you dance. Good manners cost nothing. You said it well Longgonebaby. I recall my first visits to dances in Queensland years ago being told by locals I danced with that I was mixing various styles when dancing.
They could discriminate between rockabilly, four-step, swing, rock and roll, latin etc. And they seemed to separate each style when on the floor, taking care to not vary from a style during a single dance. I had seen dancers here in Melbourne dancing what I was told was 'pub rock', but it was some time before I started to get a bit of an understanding of what the rockabilly scene is all about. And the rockabilly dance style is just one part, and as Longgonebaby said, rockabilly is so much more than how you dance.
I think anyone who is attracted to the rockabilly scene should just get into it without worrying about whether they know how to dance in the rockabilly style. I don't dance rockabilly, but I get by ok when the fast songs come on. And it is very acceptable to hold up the bar and just enjoy the music at rockabilly gigs. One of the good things about being in old bugger is that it that a lot of stuff just doesn't matter. We old sods are beyond worrying what others think about our way of dancing and we don't give a damn if we're perceived as cool or not, cos all we want to do is have fun in our twilight years.
Reminds me of an old kombi we had, with a sign on the back saying, "We're in no hurry, we're already there. Hi hear ya cirrus. I was complimented on my break dancing one night. The truth is I fell over and was trying to get up on my feet. Join Date Mar Location melbourne,victoria,australia Posts Interesting Tezza Or that's how it seemed to be. People went to rock'n'roll dances to dance. Rockabilly lovers went to dances to see the bands and hang out, check out each other's cars, prop up the bar, etc.
Rock'n'roll was always the clean-cut commercial variety of music and yes, of people too. Rockabilly was always a sub-culture long before the word 'Kulture' was ever used! But that's the start of the new 'Kustom Kulture' stuff They were always more out of the mainstream, a little more edgy, clothes were sharper, hair was higher, dresses were tighter, shoes were pointier.
You get my drift??? Now before I'm castigated by those that disagree, I say again Everything grows and evolves, as it should or it would die. The Kustom Kulture scene, low-brow art, pin-up looks and even burlesque has sprung up from the humble beginnings of rockabilly. Which was the music and the lifestyle, not the dance. That's kind of how I remember it too, LGB. I think it was also a surburb thing as well, almost tribal.
The northern and western surburbs were probably more into rockabilly bands and the other suburbs were the dancers. We boys were very into the right hairstyle and clothing had to be twelve inch 'pegged' trousers and contrasting jacket or charcoal tone suits usually with a pink shirt.
Red jumpers seem to ring a bell. Perth dancers at the Melbourne Rockabilly Meltdown. All the dancers in this clip have been taught by Cool Cats at some point, particularly through to advanced content. Rockabilly Jive.
However, the overall styling and action remains distinctive. With the movement of Rockabilly dance and styles with US culture following WW2 the interpretation of 'what is Rockabilly' can be quite different.
These are the almost notorious Rockabilly dancers of Yoyogi Park, Japan. Rockabilly, as a dance style, means something quite different depending upon where you come from - even though the music is the same. Even within Australia there are slight differences in interpretation between the East and West coast.
At Cool Cats, we recognise Rockabilly as a 4beat dance style where the man moves anti-clockwise around the woman - and there is no back-step! This marks Rockabilly as distinctly different from the other dance styles, which move clockwise and use a back-step as preparation for dance figures.
Rockabilly is a rebel and it just keeps on moving when the other dances stop! Rhythm, speed, and connection.
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