What is the relationship between Jitterbug and Sailor Dance?

Jitterbug refers to the sailor dance.

Jitterbug is a cowboy dance originating in the American West, a fast four-step dance danced to a jazz music beat. The reason for calling the Jitterbug a sailor's dance is because it is a dance often performed by American GIs on warships. So jumping up and down is a bit like standing unsteadily and staggering on a warship, and it looks like a kind of humorous and witty flavor.

After the introduction of Jitterbug into China, it has become a unique style of social dance. The rhythm of the dance is strong and weak, and the style is unique. In the 1980s, there were three major factions of Jitterbug in China, namely, Beijing Jitterbug, Tianjin Jitterbug, and Nanjing Xiaola.

Expanded Information

Because the U.S. sailors personally taught the basic rhythms of jitterbug and standardized jumping method, cultivated a large number of backbone of jitterbug, which pushed forward the development of jitterbug in Tianjin.

People, after mastering the traditional basic dancing method of the American sailor dance, inherited and developed the jitterbug dance with the characteristics of Tianjin, and created a lot of difficult patterns, which greatly enriched and developed the jitterbug dance in Tianjin.

In the middle and late 1980s, China standardized the social dance, and the jitterbug was included in the standardized social dance.

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