Shimmy (dance)
Shimmy is from the foxtrot incurred ballroom dancing , which is about 1918 in the United States was created in 1920 and came to Europe.
style
With the spread of jazz , this dance style, also known as Shimmy-sha-wabble or Hootchy-Kootchy (from "to cooch" = to wiggle your butt), developed, which was initially performed at fairgrounds and at public festivals. African dance relics are included in the shimmy. The shaking of the shoulders, the bending of the whole body and the knock knees come from the dances of former slave laborers in the USA and South America. The shimmy in which the body is shaken from head to toe with the help of the abdominal muscles, the bumb in which the abdomen is abruptly pushed forward, the grind , the circling of the hips, the muscle twitching and the strutting - they all went out Dances that Americans saw at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 .
When the dance came to Europe around 1920, French dance teachers gave it more modest dance figures. Here shimmy replaced the fashion dance jazz, which had been popular since 1918. It is a so-called “square dance” , the steps are performed in the smallest of spaces.
Examples of Shimmymusik
- Bananas, of all things (Silver & Cohn) [1] Bernard Etté Chapel in 1924
- Tutankhamen-Shimmy (Jara Benes) Efim Schachmeister with his artist ensemble 1924
- Bob-headed Shimmy (Kollo) [2] Dance Orchestra "Sascha Elmo" [d. i. Efim Chess Master] 1924
There were also combinations like Shimmy-Fox or the Shimmy-Blues :
- Titine Foxtrot Shimmy (Léo Daniderff) [3] Marek Weber Chapel 1924
- When your sweetheart breaks loyalty , Shimmy Fox (May & Neubach) Orchestra with vocals 1925
- If you let me sit ... Shimmy blues from "Die Zirkusprinzessin" (Kálmán) Dobbri Saxophone Orchestra 1926
- Wait till to-morrow night , Shimmy Blues (Leslie, Palmer & Woods) [4] Dajos Béla 1926
There is a shimmy in the Hindemith suite (1922). Also with Martinů ("Marionettes") and Ervín Schulhoff's Partity pro klavír ("Shimmy-Jazz").
A real fashion style developed around the shimmy. The white and beige pointed shimmy shoes were also popular with the dancers.
literature
- Astrid Eichstedt, Bernd Polster: Like the wild. Dances at the height of their time 144 pages, Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1985.
- Fred Ritzel: If the Kaiser had danced jazz ... , US dance music in Germany before and after the First World War, in: Sabine Schutte (Ed.): But I just want to sing about life ... / about popular music from the late 19th Century to the end of the Weimar Republic, rororo-Sachbuch 7793, Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1987. ISBN 3-499-17793-5
Web link
- The shimmy. Archived from the original on November 23, 2014 ; accessed on June 22, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.return2style.de/tanz.htm#shi
- ↑ What am I wearing? Archived from the original on January 28, 2013 ; accessed on March 3, 2019 .