Shimmy

A shimmy or shoulder shakes is a dance move in which the body is held still, except for the shoulders, which are quickly alternated back and forth. When the right shoulder goes back, the left one comes forward.
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The tradition

A shimmy or shoulder shakes is a dance move in which the body is held still, except for the shoulders, which are quickly alternated back and forth. When the right shoulder goes back, the left one comes forward.

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Shimmy is type of dance, 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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Wikidata: Shimmy (Q1257778)databaseWikidata

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Cite: “Shimmy.” folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/shimmy — text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
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