The Baltimore Sun

Far beyond the ‘Electric Slide,’ Carroll County line dancers hone their skills at weekly lessons across the county

If you think you are an expert at line dancing when you successfully complete the “Electric Slide” and “Cupid Shuffle” at weddings, think again. For students in Becky Kishter’s beginner line dancing ...
Afro

‘It’s Electric’: A little slide before we go

The “Electric Slide,” a line dance widely known in the Black community, was popularized after Marcia Griffith’s 1989 remix to the song, “Electric Boogie,” and its corresponding video showcasing the ...
American Songwriter

Who Wrote the Electric Slide Dance Song “Electric Boogie”

If you’ve been to a wedding, birthday party, school dance, or bar and bat mitzvah in the past 50 years, chances are you’re familiar with the dance, the Electric Slide. Known both as The Electric and ...
The Guardian

How the Electric Slide became the Black Lives Matter protest dance

This is a moment of movement: as people gather to push for change, collective dancing has become activism in motion The protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd have spread across the world and ...
The Root

What’s the Best Song to ‘Electric Slide’ To?

If I have to do a line dance at an event, that’s the one you can count me in for. I hate the Cha Cha Slide. Like, I will never ever get up and do it at a wedding, graduation party, funeral party or ...