50s Style Dancing

[@trousersocklover2286]

I always loved the idea of these. My grandmother told me a story once from one that she attended when she was young. Apparently someone played a prank and somehow nicked some of the students shoes so a good majority of them were heading home at the end of the hop in there socks!

[@RedstoneFox1595]

My grandma met my grandpa at a dance and they still remember teaching my mom how to dance like this. Wish dancing nowadays was this fun. Also watch the Andy Griffith show, they have a lot of this style dancing

[@sueshinkle4141]

Do you know why they were sock Hops? Because the gym teacher wouldn’t allow shoes on the gym floor...... lol.

[@trousersocklover2286]

Yup! Great times

[@SodaAnt7]

Exactly! And a lot of the dances were much more challenging on slippery gym floors wearing only socks.

[@marydonald3453]

I remember the Wave was called The Swim, in our neck of woods.

[@mkcorzouu]

makes more sense

[@eloosivegem]

1:09 The Wave 1:53 Lindy Hop 3:22 The Twist 4:40 Hand Jive

[@DavidBullough-eb8kh]

❤😂

[@kacirush8878]

I now have twist and shout stuck in my head 🤣🤣

[@amandamendes7954]

OMG, I translated into Portuguese and I was scared... But it's only the name of the song 😅😂

[@amandamendes7954]

I don't know English fluency, sorry if something's wrong

[@tylerlapointe5321]

I'm Kenickie in a HS version of grease and need to know some random 50's dances for when I'm not doing anything specific and was quite surprised by the Grease callout! the HandJive contest is one of the. hardest. dances. but I've been having a lot of fun!

[@taelowrld]

me too

[@the9of7]

I'm doing "We Go Together" from Grease, for chorus and we have to do a walk into a line type thing

[@kubrademirci240]

This was fun 😊 I think I've learned the twist thanks

[@FendigTheatre]

we are glad you liked the video!

[@kayefainges5167]

Great to see young people attempting to keep this wonderful era of rocknroll dance alive - but please get your years of origin correct. Some of us are still alive and we lived and breathed some of these dances. Loved them and still do. Get out rocknroll dancing when I can.

[@jaguarsgotwings5148]

LOL. I'm glad I stops jiving. I would have died of laughter.

[@Anirbang7619]

Lovely steps....thanks a lot

[@FendigTheatre]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@donsprinkle6598]

The swim & twist were in mid '60's.

[@maureenmcgovern6119]

We called the Wave....The Swim.

[@angelaburroughs4584]

“Dancing till ya die “ 😂

[@debbiegreenough8135]

Cool fun watching.

[@ssprout8209]

Awesome.....

[@chetjunior8654]

What are the different eras of dance? 10 Decades of Dancing in the USA 1920’s - Swing Dancing. 1930’s - Moonwalk. 1940’s - Mambo and East Coast Swing. 1950’s - Hand Jive and Cha Cha. 1960’s - Locking, Popping, and Robot-ing. 1970’s - Disco, Chicago Stepping, and Salsa. 1980’s - Rock and Roll. 1990’s - Zumba and Memphis Jookin’ What dances were popular in 2008? Novelty and fad dances are dances which are typically characterized by a short burst of popularity. Some of them may get longer-lasting life. They are also called dance fads or dance crazes….2000s. Year Dance 2007 Dougie 2008 Single Ladies (Beyoncé) 2009 Jerkin’ 2009 Stanky Legg When did competitive dance start? Dance turned into genuine sport at the beginning of the twentieth century, when French entrepreneur, dancer and choreographer Camille de Rhynal and a group of dancers added competition to what had been purely a social activity, when they converted ballrooms into venues for their dance contests. What were popular dances in the 1960s? A Few Famous Dances in the Sixties The Freddie. Lift your right arm and leg Lift your left arm and leg. The Frug. Stand with your feet together and bend your knees slightly. The Hitch-Hike. The Loco-motion. The Mashed Potato. The Shimmy. The Swim. The Twist. What were the dances in the 90s? VOGUE. The Running Man. The Sprinkler. Kid ‘N’ Play. Macarena. Hammer Time. Cha Cha Slide/Electric Slide. Roger Rabbit. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZaVlHhjmrubqsk

[@jeannetruitt7176]

What the heck are you doing...just kidding. This is hysterical

[@amandamendes7954]

Seeing the video: ooh, it's easy! Trying the most easy: SO HARD! (I don't know what's wrong with me, I can't dance something that's sooooooooo easy to learn)

[@laurievanwieren5348]

the swim or wavw was from the 60's

[@bestdisco1979]

The wave is called the swim

[@jeannetruitt7176]

Grease is a good source of dance moves...hitchhiked when I shouldn't have

[@patbaker5359]

We didn't do the wave.....that was the 60's. The reason for the socks was we had dances in the gym and it was to protect the floors.

[@debbiebirkman4231]

The Swim, The Twist and tight Levi’s were 60’s not 50’s!

[@Sean0526a]

exactly. it would have been helpful had they done some basic research.

[@leroysnyder2522]

The lindi hop and the Charleston are very much the same but only few diffrences.

[@rasbypowell8529]

clearly done by people who didn't bother to distinguish the 50s from the 60s.

[@77sgmitch]

These kids have no idea what they are doing! These are 60's dances,,,not the 50's. I grew up in both decades.

[@jeannetruitt7176]

Washing the laundry

[@xo_akiko2755]

Whelp, my dancing is a heinous crime.

[@vanessagough3247]

Also that is not Lindy Hop, that’s rock n roll which was 50, Lindy Hop has triple steps 6 and 8 count and from 1930s to 1945 ish

[@prudencehorvath8466]

But can they do the Monkey, the twist, The Boogaloo, the slide, the cha-cha, The stroll, lindy, or the boogie-woogie.

[@dwainseppala4469]

Worst stab at a 50s outfit ever, Blake. You win the Men In Tights prize. The Lindy Hop was NOT a 50s dance.

[@williamnair1991]

It was in the '40s, we did the BOP in the '50s somewhat like the Lindy Hop.

[@faharoon357]

Why is there not many more view and thumbs-up for this video and like a million for that Saudi reporter that was killed?

[@idek5]

Well...that's pretty shocking isn't it ? 😂

[@rossclark9155]

lindy is a couples' dance

[@jeannetruitt7176]

The mashed potato

[@CBAAM]

that is the swim not the wave (I was there in the 50's!)

[@angelaburroughs4584]

Seems like it was better times

[@ineshenriques7445]

Can someone tell me what type of dance is this? Cause I was looking on Google but don't understand the dance type.

[@prasehim6447]

They called it Lindy Hop, but it's not. It's more like Single Step Swing - a very basic version of East Coast Swing from the 40's. Not a 50's dance.

[@jeannetruitt7176]

Adult swim??? Or dirty dancing

[@danieltucker4821]

Nice try, but they don't know much if anything about fifties dance moves.

[@davidanitamoody9875]

SORRY YOU TWO, BUT WE DIDN'T DANCE LIKE THAT IN THE 50'S. I WAS A TEENAGER IN THE 50'S AND WE DANCED "THE BOP". NEXT TIME GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!!!!!

[@daggerthegreaser6139]

They didn’t even dress right

[@byronjanislover]

The Wave is not a 50s dance and neither was the Twist and couples danced together---not separately

[@AltaSanders1945]

What a waste of time!!! I grew up in the 50s in the home of Soul, Blues and Rock n' Roll known as Memphis, TN. You know, the home of ELVIS, greatest entertainer ever. We danced the Bop, the Stroll, the Cha Cha, the Chicken but NOT what you were doing. You need to do better research because you're in the wrong decade!!!🙄🤦

[@knetherland]

sorry but none of those moves were in the 50's.....The Bop was popular..

[@bobjeans4915]

do your homework ! those are not 50's dances !!!!

[@prasehim6447]

Not a good representation of the 50's.

[@johnpimley]

Rubbish. The men did not dress like that.

[@pamkerr6269]

utter rubbish