If you’ve been to a wedding, birthday party, school dance, or bar and bat mitzvah in the past 50 years, chances are you’re familiar with the dance, the Electric Slide. Known both as The Electric and ...
The “Electric Slide,” a line dance widely known in the Black community, was popularized after Marcia Griffith’s 1989 remix to the song, “Electric Boogie,” and its corresponding video showcasing the ...
The sweeper buses and police lights flashing in the distance mean one thing to the spectators of the New York City Marathon on the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Cumberland Street in the Fort Greene ...
Line dancing has become a staple of the Black community‘s culture as it naturally provides a sense of comfort, unity and pride at any festivities. No matter where Black people are, when “Candy” by ...
In the 1990s, creativity was at an all-time high when it came to dancing. Musicians were developing their own moves and writing songs about them. Crazes ranged from popular line dances like the ...
The dance moves may be written in the lyrics, but for Jennifer Parker, learning the “Electric Slide” was a long time coming. The 48-year-old from El Paso, Texas, suffered a brain aneurysm in 2018, ...
In one of the more bizarre episodes to roil the copyright world in recent memory, Richard Silver, the killjoy and self-proclaimed creator of the "electric slide," sent a DMCA takedown letter to a ...
EL PASO, Texas -- Jennifer Parker, 48, danced and slid into her graduation at The Hospitals of Providence Outpatient Therapy program Friday morning. "When I was going through therapy, the most ...