Tag: Shag dancing
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Hard-Core Cadre
SOS is in full swing in Myrtle Beach. The faithful and hardcore come together to dance. The crowds pack a six-block area of North Myrtle Beach. The Shag joints are […]
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Bring Your Feet – SOS Fall Migration
SOS is September 15 – 24, 2017 at the beach this year. What do you get dancing the shag at SOS? Everybody gets what they come for. That’s my impression. I […]
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Rosy Red Magic Box
There were only a few hundred thousand jukeboxes scattered around the United States prior to World War II. In North and South Carolina they were few and far between. They […]
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Invention
In the old days, it was not cool to learn to Shag in public. You stood rather sheepishly in the crowd and watched the top dancers work out. You tried […]
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Ode to Subtle Wildness
A timeless moon is rising above the memory of a beach town. Beyond the town is a restless ocean, and somewhere near the water’s edge are the dance floors. The […]
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Red Hot Heart
In the Land of Shag the dance of romance goes on. Holding hands at the edge of the floor feels dangerous. The music touches you, as it did when the […]
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Say Yes
“Dancing is a vertical expression of horizontal desire,” said Robert Frost, maybe America’s most famous poet. The first time I heard that line quoted I wondered who said it first. […]
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Society of Stranders
What does a shag dancer need to stay healthy? Beach fever, the infection that cures the disease of loneliness. At the SOS Fall Migration in September, everybody got what they […]
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Bonfire of Desire
In the Land of Shag the dance of romance goes on. Holding hands at the edge of the floor feels dangerous. The music touches you, as it did when the […]