HEEBIE JEEBIES
TO OUST CHARLESTON FOUR NEW DANCES Sydney will soon be in the grip of four successors to the charleston —the heebie jeebies, new blues, banana slide and the new black bottom. All four have passed the Paris dancing professors, and will make their debuts at the world dancing congress, which opens in the gay capital on May Picked up in the Negro dance-halls of New York the heebie takes its name from a joyful expression current among American Negroes. It is a thoroughly decorous com promise between the charleston and the fox-trot. The new blues is not the “Three o’clock in the Morning” dance. It has more vim, and is wine where the old blues was water. A feature of the new black bottom i 3 the rapid, rhythmic, swaying of the hips. The banana slide is being kept a dark secret for the present*
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 43, 13 May 1927, Page 11
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