6 August 2008

New Canberra Scene - Shuffling!

| Loose Brown
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I’ve discovered this gem of a video of one of a series of ‘happenings’ in Garema Place.

It seems there is a new dance style, ‘The Shuffle’. You do it to industrial style techno, and you wear out your sneakers pretty quickly.

And before anyone starts having a go at these guys, their (although sometimes unintelligible) comments are on the main, supportive of each other.

And because the people reading this are probably cutting edge, early adopters of alternative media and opinion internet sites, I am sure you will all be in favour of any emerging social trends that keeps the kids dancing, and making little videos such as this one.

I just want to know where they get their pants from?!?

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Wow, welcome to 1992, RiotAct.

tylersmayhem9:51 am 07 Aug 08

Ahhh, this isn’t exactly new, nor did it originate in Melbourne. This style originated in the clubs in the UK, namely London & Manchester. Check out the video clip of Free by N-Trance on you tube for a flashback (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcf5kzBCdy4) about 2.30 in to the clip. Me thinks many a substance consumed during the filming of that little gem 😉

Regardless, cool moves from these Canberrans and that they are keep ing the 90’s alive. When will the 2000’s come up with something of it’s own?!

James Brown did this:

Then again, he brought it back from the 20’s:

That’s just the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Shuffle but in Gareema Place.

Melbourne Pride!

Wow, that brings back some memories from the early 90’s! It makes me feel quite old to think that if I’d kept some of those big pants they might be a niche fashion item again…

From the kiddies who brought you drifting…
That depends on how you look at it! When I remember dancing like this nobody had heard of drifting, it was just what happened when driving my old corolla to uni with worn out tyres in the wet 🙂

@ant, speaking as an old time shuffler I can say your description is not that far from the mark!!!

Quite bizarre, cross between Michael Jackson’s moonwalk and Irish dancing! Horizontal Irish dancing? With rubbish bins around your legs.

From the kiddies who brought you drifting…

The pants = Phat pants, I got my pair from Melb!

Mate! The melbourne shuffle has been around since the early rave days. It’s evolved a bit with the running man version becoming more popular and the music changing from old school rave to hardstyle, but it’s still very much the same beast I remember from the 1990s. Go look it up on youtube.

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