# What are the kids' dances nowadays? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-kids-dances-nowadays/556756 "2010-10-11T04:44:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-kids-dances-nowadays/556756/1 "2010-10-11T04:44:36Z")
Remember the 20s? No, I wasn’t alive then either. Anyway, hipsters in the '20s had the Black Bottom, the Charleston, and the Shag. The '30s and '40s has Swing dancing. The '60s had the Watusi, the Monkey, the Swim, the Twist… I remember seeing a '60s sitcom where someone was being electrocuted or something, and everyone thought he’d invented a new dance and started copying his moves. The '60s seemed a boom time for new dances. I don’t know if there were named dances in the '70s. There was disco dancing, but I don’t know of any dance called The Disco, or The Leisure Suit. The late-'70s had the Pogo, which is a named dance, and a while ago there was the Achy-Breaky Dance. But you really don’t hear of named dances nowadays. (At least, I don’t.) Are there any? I mean like The Watusi or whatever. A more-or-less ‘official’ dance. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-kids-dances-nowadays/556756/2 "2010-10-11T05:40:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I don’t know if there were named dances in the '70s. There was disco dancing, but I don’t know of any dance called The Disco, or The Leisure Suit. Do the [Hustle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFz2WkVAk38)! > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > …and a while ago there was the Achy-Breaky Dance. Maybe you mean Line Dancing? And there was the Macarena, of course. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-kids-dances-nowadays/556756/3 "2010-10-11T05:44:00Z")
I had to put on my tweed jacket with the elbow patches, and my monocle (of course), before I could properly read this post (and I could only adequately and completely do so after reclining in my high-, wing-backed chair, and crossing my legs, à la Michael Corleone). ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-kids-dances-nowadays/556756/4 "2010-10-11T05:57:37Z")
[Cha Cha Slide](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZv62ShoStY) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-kids-dances-nowadays/556756/5 "2010-10-11T06:09:23Z")
[Here’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POv-3yIPSWc) a good\* one from the 80s. \*Excruciating ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-kids-dances-nowadays/556756/6 "2010-10-11T06:28:36Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > [Here’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POv-3yIPSWc) a good\* one from the 80s. > > \*Excruciating WTH??? Is that the guy from Kajagoogoo? What about the [Safety Dance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7movKfyTBII&ob=av3e)? Never saw anyone do it actually, but there’s a video! ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-kids-dances-nowadays/556756/7 "2010-10-11T13:37:56Z")
I still rock the Running Man, the Cabbage Patch and the Lawnmower. They see me rollin’, and they hatin’. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-kids-dances-nowadays/556756/8 "2010-10-11T15:22:22Z")
The young people around these parts do the [Melbourne Shuffle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPaMdxC6CQI), which is definitely a “damn kids” kind of dance. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-kids-dances-nowadays/556756/9 "2010-10-11T17:01:51Z")
The Bus Driver is a very important dance to us honkies. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-kids-dances-nowadays/556756/10 "2010-10-11T17:09:39Z")
Frighteningly, the biggest “dance” at my daughter’s high school is “grinding” ::yikes:: So much so that after I picked her up from Homecoming, she freely told me she was grinding as if it wasn’t even noteworthy. I almost drove my car off the road. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-kids-dances-nowadays/556756/11 "2010-10-11T17:45:51Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#): > > The young people around these parts do the [Melbourne Shuffle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPaMdxC6CQI), which is definitely a “damn kids” kind of dance. 😛 Interesting. Looks like something you would see a character in a video game doing. I can see its appeal, for that reason. As for “grinding” I believe it was formerly known as “dry humping” and was done in privacy, not on the dance floor. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-kids-dances-nowadays/556756/12 "2010-10-11T18:03:43Z")
The kids like to [crank dat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLGLum5SyKQ). Lots of videos online for that one. ---
**Author:** ![PetW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PetW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PetW)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-kids-dances-nowadays/556756/13 "2010-10-11T18:05:55Z")
[Krumping](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8kKbbdJTFA) and [getting low](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h7ylUIhQVU)