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 inventor of the "Electric Slide," an iconic dance created in 1976, is fighting back against what he believes are copyright violations and, more important, examples of bad dancing. Kyle Machulis, ...

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 ...

"Fuck White Supremacy, Let’s Get Free" at Frieze LA (2020) (image credit Giovanni Solis) LOS ANGELES — One year ago during the Frieze LA art fair, activist and artist Patrisse Cullors led a crowd of ...

Richard Silver claims that he invented the Electric Slide dance for a disco club in 1976. But rather than being the guy that just says, "Hey, I invented that dance!"... he's the guy saying, "Hey, I ...

The "Electric Slide" now has a Creative Commons license. Just how the iconic line dance came to be governed by that Internet-friendly license starts with a video of a software engineer and his friends ...

If I have to do a line dance at an event, that’s the one you can count me in for. I hate the Cha Cha Slide. Like, I will never ever get up and do it at a wedding, graduation party, funeral party or ...

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 ...

It's bound to happen this spring wedding season. Into the dancing portion of the reception, the DJ puts on a bright, hoppy tune and everyone (almost) pops up, gets in lines and starts doing the ...