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29 January 2008

Do you do the Nutbush? →[More:] Partially inspired by bmarkey's mecha radio set - do you do the Nutbush? There's a line dance that goes along with Ike and Tina's 'Nutbush City Limits', and I'm sure most every single person in Australia can be called upon to perform it if necessary. It's done at every large gathering (assuming minority punks or goths, and sometimes even then) and we were actually taught it in social dancing in PE in school. Is this a purely Australian phenomenon? Do they do the Nutbush anywhere else, or do you have a different ubiquitous social dance where you're from?

The Bus Stop was also popular in Queensland, but it's not as widespread as the Nutbush, which everyone knows.

post by: goo at: 14:45 | 11 comments

I have never heard of it (USian here)! Video link?

posted by Miko 29 January | 14:49

Hrm. I've never heard of it either (Kiwi here).

posted by gaspode 29 January | 14:51

Durr. You did provide video links - whattsa matter with me?

Anyway - it looks a lot like the Hitchhiker, minus the hitchhiking motions and the roll down, roll up. And a little bit like the boot scoot or electric slide (with the grapevines). But I've never seen that exact dance done at all.

posted by Miko 29 January | 14:51

I have never heard of it either, but having lived in Alaska my whole life this does not surprise me. I'm sure there's a whole list of things I had never heard of until my boyfriend, from Philly, told me about. But I can't think of any right now.

I was, however, 300% convinced that Sheriffs only existed in movies.

Streets that you can only drive on during certain hours of the day? One-way streets that change direction during certain hours? WTF?

And what is the difference between a highway and freeway and interstate anyway?

posted by rhapsodie 29 January | 15:08

I'd never heard of it either, but I'm pretty dance-illiterate.

posted by bmarkey 29 January | 15:34

Yeah, that's what I thought. It'd be interesting to study its spread. There's a Wikipedia article but it's light on information. I included the finger video as it was the clearest I could find for the actual moves - it's not much like the Madison, to which it is often compared, at all really.

Gah - my grammar is terrible in the post. Please excuse me, I'm tired. And now I have a pervasive earworm!

Church house, chin house...

:)

posted by goo 29 January | 16:41

Watch the Madison clip from Bande à part I posted above, if you want to smile!

posted by goo 29 January | 16:44

Wow. I had never done this dance ever until last Thursday night: my Mexican salsa teacher had us do these exact moves as a warm-up. It was different music, though, and he definitely didn't call it The Nutbush (although perhaps he did; what's the Spanish translation for Nutbush?). But I had never done or seen this dance in the US before. And now I know it's an Australian phenomenon. Now I'm really curious how my Mexican salsa teacher knows this dance. He's never lived outside of Mexico.

As far as dances that Everyone in the US knows, the main one I can think of is the Electric Slide.

posted by mosessis 29 January | 21:21

You know what would be a fun spectacle? Seeing the Sydney 2's Girls Hockey Team facing off against the All Blacks.

I wish I knew cool line dances.

posted by Triode 30 January | 01:52

Never heard of Nutbush and I've heard of the Electric Slide but don't know how to do it.

posted by deborah 30 January | 14:10

Do the Hustle!

posted by goo 30 January | 15:08

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