Sunday, October 17, 2010

The Jive Bunny Dances

Hi, I am the Jive Bunny,

At a very young age, I loved to dance. I remember having a rock and roll  Elvis t-shirt that was my favourite. When my father would make his 8MM movies, I was the one always dancing, tapping in circles with my sisters tap shoes on. I don't remember not dancing.
It was popular in the 50's to take dancing lessons or  figure skating, I was a tap dancer and took ballet, and was up on point, toe shoes, at a very young age, like my favourite  45 record,Tina the Ballerina." Round and round she goes, when she stops no one knows. It's Tina the Ballerina. " I was a can can girl, a little Shamrock, and a little Dutch girl dancing between my two older sisters on stage. So many beautiful costumes with sparkly sequins and satin. My talented Mother would sew all our beautiful costumes for the concerts every year. So many wonderful dancing memories.
Our tap shoes and toe shoes would be purchased at Malabar or Johnny Brown in Toronto; and to this day I still have my ballet case with my ballet slippers that my Mother kept all those years, as well as the 1st Barbie and Ken dolls in the case.
The 50's and early 60's were a time of dance and celebration with Rock and Roll ; and then along came the British invasion with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Then there was no looking back with Bob Dylan and all the acid rock bands of the late sixties, like Jim Morrison and the Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin just to name a few.. Motown began and the Jive Bunny couldn't stop dancing.
Dirty Dancing in the early 60's became Disco in the mid seventies. The years of sex, drugs and rock and roll, the Movie Forrest Gump summed up the late 60's and seventies. Studio 54, in New York City was the place for Disco, and CBGB's for Punk Rock from 1977, it was glitter and punk with a little bit of rock and roll and a lot of drugs and Sex.. The music never stops and the dancing goes on. Now the dancing is for people with no bones, the moves in ballet and dancing with the Stars, a dancer must be so flexible. Anyway, enough is enough, so dance to your own music and enjoy life.
The Jive Bunny recommends this.
 LOL The best is yet to come.

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