Adult Rock ‘n Roll Dance Classes Classes
From it's beginnings, rock and roll has been associated with dancing. Teen dances in the '50s fell into two categories: slow and fast. With slow dances couples held each other close and moved slowly around the dance floor in a type of box step. Fast rock and roll dances usually took the form of the Jitterbug, a holdover from the big band swing of the '30s and '40s. Again couples touched, if only by hand, and engaged in a variety of fast steps that could include considerable virtuosity and gymnastics.
In 1959, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters recorded a song called "Teardrops On Your
Letter." The flip side was a song called "The Twist." When it began to catch on Cameo-
Checker and "The Twist" were popularized on American Bandstand. The song and the dance became a national fad, spinning off countless twist records for Checker and others.
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