BODY SHAKING

&
TWERKING
 BODY SHAKING

The Shake was a fad dance of mid-1960s, characteristic of "tense jerkiness" of

limbs and head shaking, basically with no particular danced moves or steps.
It superseded the twist in popularity by 1965. It was an individualistic dance, with
no steps, legs trembling, arms arbitrarily gesticulating and head shaking. No
partner was necessary. It was part of the "mod’ subculture. It evolved from
the blue beat style and was danced under the loud and hypnotic music of rhythm
and blues typified by Chuck Berry. Frances Rust cites a description by a
contemporary who mentioned "feeling like being very drunk" under in influence of
the ostinato beat of the electric guitar, as an anecdotal support for research of the
influence of music on central nervous system.
The central theme from the British TV series The Avengers is based on The
Shake LP (1965) by Laurie Johnson, which capitalized on the dance craze of the
time.
EXAMPLE OF BODY SHAKING
 TWERKING
Twerking is a type of dance that came out of the bounce music scene of New Orleans in the late
1980s. Individually performed chiefly but not exclusively by women, performers dance to popular
music in a sexually provocative manner involving throwing or thrusting their hips back or shaking
their buttocks, often in a low squatting stance. Twerking is part of a larger set of characteristic moves
unique to the New Orleans style of hip-hop known as "bounce"] Moves include "mixing", "exercising",
the "bend over", the "shoulder hustle", "clapping", "booty clapping", "booty poppin", and "the wild
wood"—all recognized as booty shaking or bounce. Twerking is but one choreographic gesture
within bounce.
As a tradition shaped by local aid  and pleasure clubs, block parties and second lines, the dance was
central to "a historical situating of sissy bounce—bounce music as performed by artists from the New
Orleans African-American community that [led to] a meteoric rise in popularity post-[Hurricane
Katrina after 2005]." In the 90s, twerking had widespread appeal in black party culture throughout the
hip-hop/rap region known as The Dirty South, including New Orleans, Memphis, Virginia
Beach, Miami, Atlanta, and Houston. In 2013, it became the top "what is" search on the Google search
engine following pop artist Miley Cyrus performing the dance at the MTV Video Music Awards
EXAMPLE OF TWERKING
 TWIST
• easy, no touch dance with a partner
• weight was placed on the ball of one foot and leg
and hips were twisted.
• free-form type of dance
• people could dance together as a group or solo
since there was no bodily contact.
• mashed potato, madison, and the frug are the
many forms after the twist craze.
 DISCO
• Emerged during late 1970’s and
thrived until 1983
• Assimililated into other genres
such as techno, pop rock, and R&B
(rhythm and blues)
• Show it’s influenced in the 21st
century as inspiration to pop and
hip-hop.
• Saturday Night Fever (1977) starred by John Travolta, one of the
movies that influenced the era.
 Thesanguine times gave way to the village people with
songs like:
o YMCA
o Macho Man
o Love Machine and
o Foxy Lady
ARTS APPRECIATION
BUDOTS DANCE
Budots (/buˈdɔːts/; boo-DOTS)

is a grassroots electronic dance music (EDM) genre that

originated in Davao City, Philippines, and is considered
as street style hiphop. It eventually spread in Bisaya-
speaking regions. Based on house music and indigenous
Badjao beats, it is regarded as the first "Filipino- fied"
electronic music, characterized by its heavy use of
percussion, hypnotic bass, high-pitched "tiw ti-ti-tiw"
whistle hooks, and organic noises that surround the city.
It is created to complement a form of freestyle street
dance that bears the same name.
Budots is a Bisaya slang word for slacker (Tagalog). Tambay the slang originated from
the Bisaya word burot meaning "to inflate," a euphemism to the glue-sniffing juvenile
delinquents called "rugby boys." The publication also claims that rugby boys dance in a
style that would be called budots to disguise their drug use.It can also be traced from
the Bisaya word tabudots, which means "a person dancing with unpredictable
movements.

Budots dance has eventually made its way to unemployed bums who loiter Davao City.
The style seems "worm-like" or "ragdoll-like" in nature, wriggling the hips while
moving the arms and legs in slow movements. One of its characteristic moves features
opening and closing the knees while in a low squat, the arms swaying and pointing at
random.Despite its freestyle movements, the poses in budots dance are possibly
inspired by the Badjao people who perform as street buskers, either through
variations of the traditional Pangalay dance or their indigenous martial arts such as
Kuntaw and Langka Baruwang. Writer and musician Dominic Zinampan claims the
connection between budots and the Badjao people remains inconclusive, as it is hard
to tell which influenced the other.
 Who started Budots dance?

One of those artists is Sherwin Calumpang Tuna,

popularly known as DJ Love or Lablab, the creator
behind Budots dance craze
 Why is Budots popular?

Like any other piece of idiosyncratic pop culture, the

popularity of budots comes from its novelty. But maybe
in Davao, where it started, it is no longer just about
novelty, it has become mainstream. It's already part of
the culture. It's more than music or dance; sometimes, it
can be used as a form of self-expression.
WHAT IS STREET DANCE?
Street dances, are dance styles that evolved outside
of dance studios in any available open space, such as
streets, dance parties, block parties, parks, school
yards, raves, and nightclubs. They are often
improvisational and social in nature, encouraging
interaction and contact with spectators and the
other dancers. Some examples of street dance
include breakdancing and hiphop dances.