Hustle is a dance that has stirred the whole world

Hustle is a dance that has stirred the whole world

Dance, in any of its manifestations and style, is a form to express one's mood, to show feelings in movement. The phenomenon of dance is known from the very beginning of human existence. Even the ancient people moved to the beat around the fire under the drum beats. Since then, the principle has not changed - a person catches a certain rhythm and moves at his pace. Now there are more than a hundred dance styles. Hustle - takes pride of place among them.

What is hustle?

Hustle is a pair dance related to the category of "social", based on the improvisation of partners, the interaction between which occurs according to the principle: one leads, the other is conducted. Social call it, because it can be performed, even if the dancers in a pair are not familiar with each other. The movements used elements of disco and Latin American dances. Modern dancers are experimenting with different music, choosing directions from pop music to hard rock. The main thing is that the movements and music fall into the rhythm of “four” or “three” beats.

To describe the hustle, enough to present the film "Dirty Dancing" or "Saturday Night Fever." It was there that this style was revealed to the full - bright, colorful and with great love. After viewing these paintings, many people have forever linked their fate with choreography, because this is a great way to express feelings, emotions and desires.

This dance is simple to perform, and the rhythm allows you to use almost any melody. Any person who is in good physical shape and does not suffer from problems with coordination can easily repeat his elements after only three or four attempts. Lovers quickly mastered and continue to improve in this direction.

For those who choose dancing as their professional activity, hustle is also suitable. There is a "Sports Hustle" which hosts international competitions. Preparation for them requires excellent physical fitness, training experience, perfect dance performance of partners, the ability to improvise. Well-rehearsed elements are prepared for the jury. In competitions they use mainly movements from Latin American dances. Music is chosen to taste, but experiments with non-standard melodies occur quite rarely.

Interestingly, the word "hustle", from English ("hustle") translates as "crush" and "vanity". At the time of the birth of the style, this word was used to describe prohibited actions in a very wide range: from trade in prohibited substances to harassment.

Modern Hustle Popular Melodies

Madcon "Beggin". Melodious fast song that will make the dancers show all their imagination in improvisation.

"Beggin" (listen)

The pussycat dolls "Hush Hush". Under this rather slow song, but with a clear and memorable rhythm, the dance will be very sensual and illuminate the entire dance floor with its brightness.

"Hush Hush" (listen)

David guetta "Dangerous". The hit of 2015, perfect for hustle: a fast beat, a good beat that will allow dancers to move to the limits of their abilities, bringing fresh, modern elements to the style.

"Dangerous" (listen)

Dance history

No one kept a chronicle and did not record the exact dates of the moment of appearance of the hustle. Like any other dances, he was born in the people for a long time: he underwent changes, combined with different styles. Today there is no information that someone said in one day: "These and these movements will be performed to this music - we call it hustle." But now there are two hypotheses explaining where exactly this style came from.

The following events describe Maria Torres's suggestion: the last years of the seventies were held under the auspices of Disco. People tried new "chips" in musical compositions, and the dancers brought them to the dance. Fashion for new styles changed very quickly. Some elements were forgotten, and some were remembered and used further. Mary suggests that it was in New York these years there was the birth of Hustle. Experiments in music began to diverge from the movements of the dance. Melodies with a slow rhythm became popular, and dancing, on the contrary, with an accelerated one. Then the dancers began to try to lay fast movements in a melodic composition. So hustle was born.

There is a different opinion about the birth of hustle. He appeared in Florida. His "founding father" is considered to be the Latin American dance of Cubans and numerous Gypsies living at that time in this part of America. They tried to adapt familiar movements from Salsa and Western Swing to modern Disco. At first, the new species was called Disco Swing, and allegedly in this form it reached New York where it continued to evolve, undergoing changes.

In addition to these two hypotheses, transmitted by word of mouth, there is an “official version”, which states that for the first time such a phenomenon as hustle was recorded in the mid-seventies at Latino discos. The intervals between official performances were filled by amateurs, who increasingly began to demonstrate pair dances using elements of Salsa, Mamba and Cha-Cha-Cha. They danced them to what was playing in a musical pause, and that was Disco. It was at one of these discos, in 1973, the girl performed a demonstrative pair dance in which she used a new style. The guests and the jury remembered this nameless dance very much: it reflected the sensuality between the partners, lit a bright spark in the eyes of the audience and reflected the spirit of that crazy time. Just then he was called "Hustle".

Interesting Facts

• For the first time foreign students brought hustle to the USSR. Young people quickly mastered and adopted energetic movements. It was recorded that already in the early eighties at the discos of Moscow State University danced hustle.
• At competitions in sport dance, you can see the "Show-Hustle", where performance and entertainment are evaluated first, and already the second one is performance. Originality and costumes play a big role here.
• There is a special staged type of dance called "Double Hustle", which differs in the number of participants in the partnership. There are three of them. Most often, one guy leads two partners, but there is a variety with two boys and one girl.
• Hustle, which is performed by two girls in a pair, is called "Lady Hustle".
• In the 1987 film Dirty Dancing with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray you can see a lot of hustle. If you look closely at this picture, you can safely say that he has seen hustle in almost all its manifestations.
• The famous magazine "Hustler" in the root of the word has the exact construction of the word hustle, and for good reason. As mentioned above, in literal translation it means illegal actions, and Hustler magazine, in turn, summarizes this concept in the person’s face, as if calling it a criminal against morality.
• The first actual confirmation of the recognition of hustle in the USSR can be called the film “Favorite Woman Mechanic Gavrilova”, where the hustle is danced in the scene in the scenery of the restaurant.

Hustle is a dance that has been living for more than 40 years and is a true embodiment of a whole era. He is recognized among hundreds of other styles. For hustle, no convention is important. If a dancer has a keen desire to conquer all the spectators with his dance, then it is worth choosing him, putting on fashionable music and whirling the partner in a dizzying dance. Hustle - many years ago made the whole world dance to it and continues to do so to this day.