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Bonnie Story (born March 18, 1959) is an American Emmy Award-winning choreographer best known for her work in the films High School Musical, High School Musical 2, and High School Musical 3. Her work has been featured on FOX dance show So You Think You Can Dance .
The Shake was a fad dance of mid-1960s, characteristic of "tense jerkiness" [1] of limbs and head shaking, basically with no particular danced moves or steps. It superseded the twist in popularity by 1965. It was an individualistic dance, with no steps, legs trembling, arms arbitrarily gesticulating and head shaking. No partner was necessary.
Standardized versions of dance moves were published in dance and teen magazines, often choreographed to popular songs. Songs such as "The Loco-Motion" were specifically written with the intention of creating a new dance and many more pop hits, such as "Mashed Potato Time" by Dee Dee Sharp, were written to cash in recent successful novelties.
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The Frug (/ f r ʌ ɡ / [1] or /frug/ [2]) was a dance craze from the mid-1960s, which included vigorous dance to pop music. [3] It evolved from another dance of the era, the Chicken. The Chicken, which featured lateral body movements, was used primarily as a change of pace step while doing the Twist. As young dancers grew more tired they would ...
Teri Garr (1944–2024) was an American actress who appeared in over 70 films. She began her film career in the early 1960s as a dancer in various musicals before having small speaking roles in Head (1968) and Changes (1969).
Bonnie Bird (April 30, 1914 – April 9, 1995) was an American modern dancer and dance educator.. Bird danced with Martha Graham in the 1930s [1] and went on to a career as a dance educator in the United States and also in the United Kingdom, where she was awarded a Doctor of Arts degree, honoris causa, for her work pioneering degree programs in dance in the 1970s through the '90s at the ...
The Mashed Potato is a dance move which was a popular dance craze of 1962. The dance move and mashed potato song were first made famous by James Brown in 1959 and used in his concerts regularly. It was also a dance done to songs such as Dee Dee Sharp's "Mashed Potato Time". The move vaguely resembles that of the twist, by Sharp's fellow ...