ELECTRIC SLIDE

ELECTRIC SLIDE

Please note the e-mail listed below regarding a legal issue relative to this dance.

In the New Orleans area, this dance is danced by changing step 18
to a right hitch with a 1/4 turn left, after which the dance begins
again; that is, the remaining steps are omitted.

To:	honkytonkstomper@yahoo.com
Subject:	legal notice
Date:	Thu, 29 May 2003 05:12:21 -0400
From:	nycsdancer@hotmail.com

4/17/03

Dear Sir or Madam,

My name is Ric Silver. In 1976, I choreographed "The Electric Slide" for Vamps Disco in New York City.

I am writing to inform you that I have retained the legal firm of Barnard, Loop & McCormick LLP to handle a law suit against DEJ Productions for their use of "The Electric " in the film "Nobody's Baby" and Touchstone Pictures/Warner Bros. for their use of "The Electric" in the film "The Replacements" without permission or credit.

In a search of the internet, your site has been listed as having "The Electric Slide" choreography and after viewing your site I have found that it – as most of the sites I have visited – have an incorrect version of my choreography. In as much as I have not given permission for anyone to print or film this choreography – your site will be listed as a co-defendant in the above-mentioned suit.

I realize that this incorrect version of my choreography has been around for some 27 years and it seem pointless to try and correct it at this time but because of the legal ramifications, my lawyers have suggested that I take this approach.

You may correct your site to reflect the correct choreography which I have posted at the end of this letter

You can remove this illegal and incorrect version of "The Electric Slide" from your site.

(see http://ric06379.tripod.com or www.angelfire.com/ct2/thedancer )

www.sc.edu/union/Sears/d.electric.htm

Ric Silver

NYCsDancer@hotmail.com

16 Billings St

Pawcatuck, CT 06379

860-599-2525

"The Electric"

AKA The Electric Slide


*Choreographed in 1976 for the re-opening of Vamps Disc at 71st and Broadway in New York City*

*The Electric Slide* TYPE: 4 Wall Line Dance Rating: Beginner to Advanced COUNT: 22 STEPS: 22 CHOREOGRAPHER: Ric Silver MUSIC:Electric Boogie - Marcia Griffiths STEP DESCRIPTION: GRAPEVINE Right, TOUCH 1,2. Step to the right on RIGHT foot; Step LEFT foot behind Right foot; 3,4 Step to the right on RIGHT foot; Touch LEFT foot next to Right foot (clap) GRAPEVINE Left, TOUCH 5,6. Step to the left on LEFT foot; Step RIGHT foot behind Left foot; 7,8 Step to the left on LEFT foot; Touch RIGHT foot next to Left foot (clap) WALK BACK, TOUCH 9-11. Walk back stepping on RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT 12. Touch LEFT foot next to Right foot (clap) STEP, TOUCH, STEP, TOUCH, STEP, TOUCH, STEP, TOUCH, STEP with 1/4 TURN , HOP 13,14 Step forward on LEFT foot; Touch RIGHT foot toe to Left heel (clap) 15,16 Step backward on RIGHT foot; Touch LEFT foot toe to Right toe (snap) 17,18 Step forward on LEFT foot; Touch RIGHT foot toe to Left heel (clap) 19,20 Step backward on RIGHT foot; Touch LEFT foot toe to Right toe (snap) 21,22 Step forward on LEFT foot; turning 1/4 turn to your left, Hop BEGIN DANCE AGAIN More advanced dancers can vary steps with turns in grapevines or slide, slide, slide - kicks (14 & 18) touch behind or hand to floor (16 & 20) - Hop may be substituted with Tour d'lair (turn in the air). This was originally choreographed for professional dancers and was done in 2 lines facing each other. They should BOX each other - that is to say, circle the opposite dancer. This version was only performed a few times with professional dancers as I found that non-dancers found the intricacies too difficult to handle. I only taught it as a single line dance at VAMPS. I hope that now that the dance has been around for a while, once they learn the correct 22 steps, they would be able to manage this version as well.


Created 6/02/76 by Richard Louis Silver

This choreography is also know as "The Freeze" or "The Arizona Slide" - both of which are incorrect versions of this original "Electric Slide" but with steps omitted.