novelty dance

Novelty and fad dances are dances which are typically characterized by a short burst of popularity. Some of them, like the Twist, Y.M.C.A. and the Hokey Pokey, have shown much longer-lasting popularity.
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The tradition

Novelty and fad dances are dances which are typically characterized by a short burst of popularity. Some of them, like the Twist, Y.M.C.A. and the Hokey Pokey, have shown much longer-lasting popularity. They are also called dance fads or dance crazes.

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Dance crazes”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.

novelty dance is humorous type of dance, often enjoying short burst of popularity, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1

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