Standing blues
The standing blues (also: Slow , Klammerblues , Engtanz or Schieber , in Austria often Schleicher or Lamourhatscher ) is a slow dance that enables the dancing couple to have close physical contact at parties and organized dance events.
Standing blues are danced to slow pop music, especially ballads (e.g. Du , Hey Jude , Hello or Richard Sanderson's Reality ). The sequence of steps is a simple left-right, but can come to a complete standstill. In this case, the standing blues is nothing more than petting or kissing while standing.
In the case of standing blues, the lighting on the dance floor is heavily darkened to allow the couples the necessary intimacy.
As a continuation of the dance invitation, the standing blues is a socially accepted form of encouraging someone to be physically close or intimate. Therefore, dance events are often regularly interrupted by two or three standing blues in order to pave an easy path to intimacy for couples who have met in the meantime. Standing blues is therefore considered a contrast to the otherwise usual dynamic dance styles for rock and pop music:
“In order to adequately reproduce the noise of the music, you had to jump, shake your hair, in any case bump into it and sweat. Pop was heat, tightness and noise - finally, when the sweat was slowly drying, people were allowed to dance tightly as a reward. That was called standing blues. "
Also discotheques interrupted earlier the fast dance music on a regular basis by a standing blues. In techno or hip-hop clubs, however, this concept no longer occurs, so that standing blues in Germany are mainly limited to public dance events at carnival or at fairs . In discos in other countries, for example in France, standing blues ( French danser un slow ) continue to occur.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Rumpf: Rock history . LIT Verlag, Münster 2005, p. 68.