dear Carolina Dance Inc.,
i would like to send forth sincere congratulations on your invention because SHAG defied social conventions as carefree caucasian teenagers were inspired by the possibilities inherent within improvisational african-american dance and music.
DEFINITION:
SHAG: is a game of seduction, romance, collaboration, and
improvisation. It happens when two people hold one or both hands, move together
out of basic step accompanied by some ensemble improvisation and back to the
basic in time with the music.
LEWIS HALL, during the winter of 1927, weary of the
foxtrot and waltz, began to give some thought and time to a new dance geared to
a different tempo and steps. With the assistant of a close friend, he
worked out a pattern of intricate steps danced to a double time beat to be
called “The Shag”.
This was introduced to the young dancers at the Feats of the
Pirates Festival in Wilmington, NC, of August 1928.
you could alleviate moods of anxiety,
and fears of
negative social codemnation.
signed,
everyone down @ Myrtle Beach learned how to SHAG
p.s. beach
dancing babies in love with the right and the wrong and oh la la the
self-expressive nature of The Shag.
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