Electric Slide

For the film, see Electric Slide (film).

The Electric (better known as The Electric Slide) is a four wall line dance. Choreographer and dancer Richard L. "Ric" Silver claims to have created the dance in 1976.[1]

Dance popularity is sometimes attributed to its setting to Marcia Griffiths and Bunny Wailer's song "Electric Boogie", which was written and recorded for the first time in December 1982.[2][3][4]

There are several variations of the dance. The original choreography has 22 steps,[5] but variants include the Freeze (16-step), Cowboy Motion (24-step), Cowboy Boogie (24 step), and the Electric Slide 2 (18-step). The 18-step variation became popular in 1989 and for ten years was listed by Linedancer Magazine as the number-one dance in the world.[citation needed]

The original dance was choreographed to be danced in two lines facing each other and in the course the opposite dancers circle each other.[1]

  1. ^ a b LineDancer Magazine, June 2003, p. 9.
  2. ^ "Marcia Griffiths – Today's 1 Hit Wonder @ 1 [VIDEO]". 18 February 2013.
  3. ^ The Electric Slide Dance, American Songwriter
  4. ^ 1976 – Bunny Wailer & Marcia Griffiths: Electric Boogie
  5. ^ Silver, Ric. "This is 'The Electric' - The Complete Choreography". The-electricslidedance.com. Archived from the original on 2018-07-08. Retrieved 2016-11-30.