Melbourne shuffle (Melbourne shuffle)

Melbourne shuffle (Melbourne shuffle) — a style of dance that appeared in the late 80-ies in Australia, on the underground scene of the city of Melbourne. This is a fast, typical jazz dance movement (step), but in a "modern" way, and dance it to a variety of styles of electronic dance music. Sometimes this dance is called "Hard dance".

Sometimes this dance is called "Hardstyle", which is fundamentally wrong, because:

1) the Term "Hardstyle" is used in quite a large number of dances and emphasizes the rigidity of the performance.

2) Hardstyle is primarily a style of electronic music.

Content

1 Introduction

2 Typical movements

3 History

4 Chronology

5 Music

6 dance Styles

7 Promotion

8 See para. also

Introduction

The main base shuffle (Running Man) consists of a combination of combinations of two movements (hops). The very combination of movements is called "shuffling" (which translated from English — drag your feet, shuffle, slide your feet on the floor).

Sliding moves left or right, then forward and backward. When schaffler is moving, it seems like he is "weightless", it is not gravity.

The sliding spot is used in the intervals between the previous and new movement, so as not to stand in one place and move all the time. Using this movement, schaffler can relax, adjust to the beat (beat) of the music. Also schaffler can retreat, to get out of the dance using the movement and "release" the other dancers on the dance floor. But more often this movement is used to be in motion all the time.

Shuffle on the crowd consists of a very vigorous steps and movements.

Typical movements

Modern shuffle dance in the form of combinations of 5 different steps:

Running man — running man) - basic, one of the most popular movements when the shuffler moves on the spot. One foot rises from the" waiting " position and moves forward, while the other foot slides back at the same time. Then the foot that is already at the back, slide in the initial position, and a foot front to back. The process is repeated to the beat (beat) of the music.

T-step (Shuffle in the form of T-movement). Schaffler moves to the right with his left foot, then to the left. This foot only moves left and right (on a roundtrip), at the time, as the right foot moves up and down. This combination of movements should be similar to the letter T. this movement is the most popular among shufflers.

Slide (slide). The most common sliding movements.

Spin (scroll). They can be "ordinary" or "inverted", that is, Vice versa. Normal scrolling is performed to rotate the body clockwise. Inverted scrolling is the same, but counterclockwise. Both the scroll is performed while dancing in a random order.

Kick (kick). Footsteps hitting the floor or the air. One foot in front, the second foot hits the floor or in the air at the place of the first foot. During the movement of the first foot, the second hits the place of the first foot. The height of the legs at impact can be low and high (knees rise almost to the waist). The point of kick is balanced and controlled.

A lot of shuffle dance moves are taken from other styles, such as mimeing, popping, locking, liquiding, and breaking, which eventually mixed up, "combined."

History

Shuffle is one of several dances that originated in the era of acid house music style. Over time, the genre of acid house has become more diverse and divided into two different sub-genres with the same philosophy: back-step and shuffling. Shuffle has continued to evolve in Melbourne's Nightclubs and other rave parties over the years.

Many events, clubs, communities took part in the development of this style of dance for many years.

Chronology

The end of 1980-ies till the beginning of 1990-ies

Melbourne shuffle begins to emerge as a distinct dance, incorporating more hand movement than previous styles. Techno music was gradually replaced by trance music and house music.

Mid 1990-ies

A number of documentary-style videos during this era made it possible for the style to exist, and the popularity of shuffle increased. There are many variations of this dance, but the core of the movement remained the key motion giving it the term "Melbourne Shuffle".

Early 2000-present

In 2006 with the advent of Youtube, dancers internationally are now United by the Internet, shufflers publish their own videos of dance and learning.

Music

Initially, in the late 80's, in Melbourne shuffle danced under acid house and the usual house (classic). In the early 90-ies he began to dance under Trance, and then increased the speed of the dance. In 2007 in Melbourne his already began to dance under hard trance, hardstyle, hard house, tribal house, techno and hard techno.

Style of dance

Melbourne shuffle is divided into two main styles :

Australia Style (AUS) — the main, the very first areas of Shuffle, popular today, distinguish such types as Hard style (the most popular, the body is slightly inclined), Soft (straight body, dominated by sliding over the blows), New School (straight body, a lot of slides, hand work), Old School (soft style, almost no use of hands and body),Pure (instead of Running men use only Tesku).

Malaysia Style (MAS) — Appeared later in Malaysia and began to develop rapidly. Also divided into SOFT (soft, working hands only, no case), HARD (hard, constantly working the body and hands) and STOMP (body tilted), PURE (Instead of RM, use T, use jumps and spins), OLDSCHOOL (RM doing on their heels, tons of make not 3-4 times like in other styles, and 7 or more)

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