Have you ever achieved the Bunny Hop? This enjoyable 1950’s conga line dance is hopping to a marriage close to you. Join me as we discover ways to dance the 1950’s Bunny hop.
History of the Bunny Hop
Where do new dance traits come from? Hip children! Band chief Ray Anthony bought wind of a brand new dance in San Francisco in 1952. He took a visit to Balboa High School to take a look at the conga line impressed bunny hop the children have been doing. This impressed him to jot down the track to suit their dance.
Bunny Hop on Air
Ray Anthony bought the world a hoppin by that includes the bunny hop on his present in 1953. This was not the final time it aired on TV. It was in Family ties, Fresh Pince and Everybody Loves Raymond. My favourite is the model in “When Your and Addams” from the Addams Family Musical that I did a tutorial for.
Inspired by Bunny hop Dances
The bunny hop impressed different dances. In the 1960’s Finnish composer Erik Lindström wrote “Letkajenkka” (first recorded by The Adventurers) as a line dance schottische utilizing the bunny hop however beginning with the left foot. It was later renamed Letkiss. It 2014 Arabian weddings went viral with “rasqat al-batriq” or “Penguin Dance” that includes the bunny hop conga line steps. In the gaming world Fortnite created a emoji of the Bunny Hop with only a hop, hop, hop.
Bunny Hop:
- RF heal out, toe in, heal out, stomp (1,2,3,4)
- LF heal out, toe in, heal out, stomp (5,6,7,8)
- hop ahead (1,2)
- hop again (3,4)
- Three hops ahead (1,2,3, maintain 4)
- Begin once more till the tip of the track
Lyrics
Put your proper foot ahead
Put your left foot out
Do the Bunny hop
Hop, hop, hop
Backdrop location.
Lakewood historic foremost road preserved as a park. I used my photograph of the 88c Variety Store and Ethel’s Beauty Salon at Heritage Lakewood Park in Colorado. It was inbuilt 1948 at a laundromat, and transformed to a five-and-dime retailer within the 1950’s. It was transformed right into a magnificence salon within the 1960’s by Gil and Ethel Gomez. You can see the unique fixtures on this museum constructing to this present day.
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References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_hop_%28dance%29
https://www.libraryofdance.org/dances/bunny-hop/
https://www.songlyrics.com/ray-anthony/the-bunny-hop-lyrics/