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The Melbourne Shuffle
How to do it?
VIDEO (its a strange vid, first 30 sec are music without vid, then the movie starts.
Been seeing this alott lately in Germany on there raves. Its a weird dance, but extremely cool if you can do it properly 
I got this from another forum based on Melbourne. Just a short history on how Melbourne shuffle came around. There are alot of other other stories on how Melbourne Shuffle came around. But this is what I manage to find out so far.
A Brief History of The Melbourne Shuffle
The Melbourne Shuffle was one of several dances that emerged during the Acid House era; the main ones were Jacking,
Stepping and Shuffling.
Jacking came first (from overseas) and was the definitive dance methodology for Acid House. It was a stationary dance (ie you remained strictly in one place) and it consisted mainly of overhead arm movements with occasional knee-bends and knee-ups (whilst bending at the waist). However, as Acid House became more diverse and rhythmically complex, Jacking simply didn't cut it any more and went extinct. 2 different (though not mutually exclusive) dance philosophies evolved to meet the eightened rhythmic demands of early techno:
The Back-Step (aka The Quick-Step)
The Shuffle
The Back-Step approach was to map the main central beat to a pronounced backward step or hop. The secondary beats and off-beats were then mapped to series of small steps and hops coordinated around the main back step. The Shuffle approach did away with a main central move (ie the back-step in The Back-Step) and "smudged" the numerous small steps and hops into a smoother more integrated series of shuffling/dragging foot movements. Both approaches enabled dancers to wander freely about the dance-floor, and both spurned the extravagant arm movements of Jacking.
The greatest strength and weakness of The Back-Step was its openness & clarity; when done well the Back-Stepper's connection to the music was unmistakeable and intimate in a way that a Shuffler could never hope to achieve. However, if any of a Back-Stepper's hops and steps were not totally synchronised to the music then the smooth continuity of even an
apprentice Shuffler would make the Stepper look clumsy and awkward.
In contrast, the Shuffle was esoteric & indistinct; when done well the Shuffler would seem to float through and over the music rather than being "inside" the music like a Back-Stepper. Both dance philosophies are alive and well in Melbourne today, but whereas the Shuffle has remained recognisable over the years, the Back-Step has changed its form (though not its intent) many times. For this reason the Shuffle has become
famous but the Back-Step has faded into obscurity.
1 > Who heard of it?
2 > What do you think of it?
3 > Can you do it?
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