How to shimmy dance
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How to Do the Shimmy Dance Move with Your ShouldersDancing is a beautiful art, which can be performed to entertain people and it has got numerous other benefits too.
You can practice this activity regularly in order to stay fit and rid yourself of stress.
However, you have to master the dance form you wish to perform otherwise you will end up looking clumsy. There are different types of dances, which help you in reducing fat from a particular area of your body like hips, legs, arms or chest.
One of the most popular dances performed all over the world is the shimmy. It has got various types and one of them is the shoulder shimmy, which seems quite easy. However, you need to practice hard in order to perform it with perfection, and gracefully.
Instructions
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Stand in a relaxed position
The most important thing you need to do is stand in a relaxed position. If you have a stiff body, you will be unable to perform the shimmy accurately.
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Stretch the arms outwards
Once you are in a proper position, stretch your arms outwards.
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Move the right shoulder forward
Start moving your right shoulder forward. There is no compulsion on which side you move first, so you can also perform this action with the other shoulder first.
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Move the right shoulder back
Now, move the right shoulder backwards slowly. If you are a starter, you can practice this step a few times before moving on with the other steps.
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Do the same with left shoulder
Start doing the same action with your left shoulder and make sure that you don’t stop the flow.
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Do the shimmy slowly
Remember not to do the shimmy in a brisk motion straightaway. Perform it slowly and continue doing so until you achieve perfection. Once you are able to do it smoothly, you can increase the pace.
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Add more steps
After you have started moving the shoulders in the right manner, you can add more steps in the dance to make it look more beautiful. You have to move forward and then backwards and continue shimmying the shoulders in the meantime. Moreover, you can also move in a circular position to add grace to your dance.
Remember practice ensures perfection, so give time to this dance form on a regular basis.
Posted by Waqar Masood in Dance
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For articles with homophone names, see Chimie and Shimi.
Shimmy is a dance that has its origins in the United States, a dark dance in the late XIX - th century. It evokes ideas of flicker and vibration.
Summary
- 1 story
- 2 In aeronautics
- 3 Automotive industry
- 4 Notes and references
History
It was slightly modified by white immigrants who saw in it a relationship with gypsy traditions, and became popular in the 1920s as a stage dance in musical revue shows and in youth dance hall practices (solo dance in that time).
It has a feature of reciprocating movement of the shoulders back and forth, slightly bent at the elbows, the most immobile torso.
At the end of the First World War, the dance became popular in England, and one of the hits of 1918 became Everybody shimmies now in performed by Sophie Tucker and Mae West.
Film actress Frances White, born 1896, also appeared in music magazines from 1916 to 1922 and danced shimmy at the Florenz Ziegfeld Theater on Broadway (New Amsterdam Theatre).
Other notable dancers: Gilda Gray (the "shimmy queen") and Mae West with a sulphurous reputation (they wore a loose, plunging shirt right down to their bodies, and their syncopated dance moves hinted at their charms).
One of the composers of shimmy music was Theron S. Bennett. Notable orchestras of the 1920s that played music to accompany the dance included Ian Garber ( The Hot Years ) and Clarence Williams.
Influence in Europe: Paul Hindemith, Piano Suite 1922 , Op.26, II (Shimmy).
In 1922, Albert Willemets and Jacques Charles wrote the text for the ballet "Java" , created by Mistinguette, to the music of Maurice Yven: "What is it that digs up the foxtrot and even chemistry ...". Armand Piron wrote song I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate (in), which has been filmed many times, including on the Beatles stage, a version can be heard on the unofficial album Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 .
In 1961 Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller wrote the song Teach Me How to Shimmy for the Isley Brothers. Coasters purchased it in 1961, Les Calamités in 1984 and Les Soucoupes Violentes in 1987.
In 1974, Tom Waits sang on song Fumblin' With The Blues : "And I'm a pool-Shooting-shimmy-shyster shaking my head"
In 1984, Tina Turner sang on Mark Knopfler's Private Dancer, : "Tell me, do you want to see me shimmy again? "
In 1987, musician and producer Mark Kramer (in) created the Shimmy Disc (in) label.
In 1996 Ol'Dirty Bastard released the album Return to the 36 Chanbers: The Dirty Version with song 9 on the Elektra label0031 Shimmy Shimmy Ya .
In aeronautics
The term " shimmy " was adopted by American aviators to refer to abnormal vibrations, especially in the front wheel of a tricycle landing gear. After World War II, English became the universal language of aeronautics, and the term entered the lexicon even of French-speaking aviators. As such, the fictional characters Tanguy and Laverdure make frequent use of it.
As for a character familiar with naval terms, such as Captain Haddock, he states that after watching the TV invented by Professor Calculus, he has "vision shimming" with a particularly unstable picture.
Automotive
In a broader sense, this term has also been adopted into automotive language to refer to blurring or wobble in a car's steering system (possible causes: train geometry misalignment, structural or accidental deformation, tire or wheel wear defects, balance, play and wear of pivots, etc.
). In the area of motorcycles, we are more likely to talk about handlebars.
Notes and links
- ↑ This English term evokes the concept abnormal vibration . In the album Les Bijoux de la Castafiore (1963), Hergé asked Captain Haddock to say, after a particularly difficult demonstration of a color television prototype by Professor Tournesol, "I see a tremor in my vision", to which the servant Nestor replies, "I see trouble too". (Hergé, Les Bijoux de la Castafiore , Casterman (ISBN 2-203-00120-8) , pp. 50).
- ↑ (in) " Live! At the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 ", on The Beatles Bible, (accessed April 25, 2021) .
- ↑ " And if not, do you draw? " , On Lefranc, Alix, Jen ... and others (consulted October 7, 2018) .
- ↑ " Steering, irreversibility, steering wheel, stability, geometry, parallelism, front axle, hunting, shimmy, gyroscope, angle, strut, camber ", on bielles.free.fr (accessed 31 December 2020. )
In Lenkom's "Old Fashioned Comedy" they dance shimmy and lezginka
Mark Zakharov's Lenkom hosted the premiere of the play Old Fashioned Comedy based on Alexei Arbuzov's play directed by Roman Samgin.
True fans of the theater remember very well the grandiose success of "City of Millionaires" with Inna Churikova and Armen Dzhigarkhanyan - a performance that Roman Samghin staged on the famous stage under the direction of Mark Zakharov back in 2000.
Since then, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge, a student of Mark Anatolyevich has performed many worthy productions in various theaters of the country - from Rostov to St. Petersburg, from Nizhny Novgorod to Omsk.
Over the past two decades, he has not been ignored by his native Lenkom either. And here is a new collaboration.
The play was written by Alexei Arbuzov in 1975 and was in demand on the Russian stage for almost half a century. At the Mayakovsky Theater, Andrey Goncharov once staged a stunning performance with Lydia Sukharevskaya and Boris Tenin. (It can still be found on tape today, this production can be reviewed endlessly - the participants in the legendary theatrical performance are so good!) A few years later, a film was released with another famous duet - Alisa Freindlich and Igor Vladimirov. Further, the Arbuzov comedy was played at various venues by Evgenia Simonova and Igor Okhlupin, Olga Shirokova and Vadim Raikin , Alina Pokrovskaya and Sergei Kolesnikov…
The word “duet” in this story is fundamental.
For the absence of a duet that has taken place gives rise in this case to the failure of the entire performance.
The choice of Roman Samgin for the main roles of actors so different in temperament and psychophysics, such as the People's Artist of Russia Igor Bochkin and the Honored Artist of Russia Olesya Zheleznyak, frankly puzzled many at first. Moreover, if Igor Bochkin falls into the proposed role by age, then Olesya Zheleznyak is ten years younger than his heroine. However, as often happens, the director's instinct turned out to be on top: talented artists in an unthinkable way managed to "tread" the paths towards each other and at the end of the performance they became a single whole, and this was exactly what Arbuzov's play demanded.
According to the plot of the play, a very unusual patient arrives at a sanatorium on the Riga coast. Comrade Zherber Lidia Vasilievna is a dramatic actress in the past, and now she is a cashier in a circus. Her difficult character is hard to bear by others, she generally does not fit well into the framework of the Soviet sanatorium-resort medical facility.
The heroine Olesya Zheleznyak at first resembles the malicious Shapoklyak - no, not in age, but in her behavior: for this lady, dressed in a red tracksuit with an absurd chintz skirt over her pants and a stupid Panama hat, there are neither rules nor authorities. She does not consider others around, following some kind of her own internal logic: she climbs into windows at night, knocking over bottles of kefir, wakes up her bedroom neighbors at dawn with loud singing, does not come to the examination at the appointed time, as she feeds the seagulls with breakfast at that moment .
Naturally, the behavior of a non-standard vacationer, on which complaints are pouring in, cannot but disturb the head physician of the sanatorium, Rodion Nikolayevich, a serious and organized man, a practicing surgeon who is simply obliged to take action. But this is not easy to do: Lidia Vasilievna is still a little thing, it is not possible to establish contact with her either the first or the second time.
Meanwhile, Arbuzov's "Old Fashioned Comedy" is a play about true love. Gradually, the viewer becomes convinced that the flashed sympathy of the characters is based not on the difference in their characters, but on their deep affinity.
Before us are two very different people, each of whom went through a war and keeps an unhealed wound deep in his soul. Rodion Nikolaevich, an old Leningrader, remained on the Riga seashore, since his wife, a military surgeon, was buried next to the sanatorium in the fraternal cemetery: in 1944 there were fierce battles here.
Lidia Vasilievna, as part of a front-line theater brigade, on the eve of the Victory, lost her young son, a soldier. She left the theater because she could no longer hear the fake shooting on stage.
These two aging people at first resemble porcupines that stomp side by side along the road, huddle together, dreaming of warming up mentally, but only prick with needles.
Gradually, however, Lydia Vasilievna looks closely at Rodion Nikolaevich and removes the “defense”: Gerber’s image is undergoing an impressive metamorphosis.
From the caustic, prickly Shapoklyak, the harsh Tamara from Five Evenings first appears before our eyes (this role was once convincingly created by the same Olesya Zheleznyak), and then a completely new, unlike anyone else woman appears - simple and sincere, caring and loving, knowing her worth well and highly appreciating the person who is nearby.
Rodion Nikolaevich, performed by Igor Bochkin, is undergoing a reverse transformation: from a confused and seemingly nondescript person, in a suit with a button torn off, angry at the doctor's patient, he turns before our eyes into a strong, active person. What is worth only his tough phrase “Do not touch!”, uttered at the moment when the heroine Zheleznyak is trying to shift a bunch of flowers that the doctor puts every day on the grave of his deceased wife. And his further exhaustive explanation: "These flowers will always be there."
The themes of love, memory, death, war, the struggle for personal happiness are gracefully intertwined by Roman Samgin in a new performance, which is backed by impressive scenery created by Viktor Shilkrot.
The high wooden wall of the sanatorium of a curved shape with huge glass, behind which people-mannequins are guessed, unobtrusively refers to the resort architecture of the mid-seventies of the XX century. Musical accompaniment with songs about Soviet Jurmala, fragments of radio broadcasts interrupted by the wheezing of an old receiver, successfully attacks our associative memory, plunging into the atmosphere of the Soviet Baltic resort. This atmosphere is successfully complemented by the tables of a small cafe on the seashore, and simple wooden furniture, taken out by Rodion Nikolayevich into the garden next to the office: a completely human desire is to bask in the rays of the sun of the short Baltic summer.
Spectacular costumes by Irena Belousova, which Lidia Vasilievna tries on one after another, while “walking” outfits at the resort, is a separate bright touch to the portrait of a restless heroine who flatly refuses to grow old. Well, the shimmy, together with the lezginka (staged by Maria Siukaeva), which Rodion Nikolayevich dances so incendiary, is a real “nail” of the performance, rich in tightrope walking, eccentricity and directorial invention.
