If you’ve been to a wedding, birthday party, school dance, or bar and bat mitzvah in the past 50 years, chances are you’re familiar with the dance, the Electric Slide. Known both as The Electric and ...
The “Electric Slide,” a line dance widely known in the Black community, was popularized after Marcia Griffith’s 1989 remix to the song, “Electric Boogie,” and its corresponding video showcasing the ...
Line dancing has become a staple of the Black community‘s culture as it naturally provides a sense of comfort, unity and pride at any festivities. No matter where Black people are, when “Candy” by ...
The dance moves may be written in the lyrics, but for Jennifer Parker, learning the “Electric Slide” was a long time coming. The 48-year-old from El Paso, Texas, suffered a brain aneurysm in 2018, ...
She sure got the boogie. Angelina Jolie was spotted dancing the Electric Slide with daughter Zahara Jolie-Pitt as they celebrated the 17-year-old’s admission into Spelman College at an event in Los ...
The inventor of the "Electric Slide," an iconic dance created in 1976, is fighting back against what he believes are copyright violations and, more important, examples of bad dancing. Kyle Machulis, ...
It's bound to happen this spring wedding season. Into the dancing portion of the reception, the DJ puts on a bright, hoppy tune and everyone (almost) pops up, gets in lines and starts doing the ...
If I have to do a line dance at an event, that’s the one you can count me in for. I hate the Cha Cha Slide. Like, I will never ever get up and do it at a wedding, graduation party, funeral party or ...
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In one of the more bizarre episodes to roil the copyright world in recent memory, Richard Silver, the killjoy and self-proclaimed creator of the "electric slide," sent a DMCA takedown letter to a ...