Melbourne shuffle

The Melbourne shuffle developed in Melbourne's rave and club scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Its basis is the T-step, a variation of the jazz tick-tock, combined with a variation of the running man and coordinated arm movements. Often improvised, it is danced to electronic dance music, especially trance and other hard-dance styles. Clubs linked with it include Hard Kandy, Bubble, Xpress at Chasers and Heat.

The dance became a symbol of Melbourne's 1990s rave culture, documented in photographer Paul Fleckney's book Techno Shuffle: Rave Culture and the Melbourne Underground. It spread abroad with electronic dance music; a related UK style, cutting shapes, developed around 2012. In 2015 the community school Laneway Learning ran shuffle classes and joined the City of Melbourne in a Docklands event revisiting 90s rave culture.

Sources

• Melbourne shuffle — Wikipedia
• Exploring the golden age of Melbourne's 90s rave scene — i-D
• It's Melbourne Shuffle Time — Laneway Learning

Organisations connected with this dance

• Laneway Learning (Melbourne)
• Yarra Libraries (City of Yarra, Melbourne)

Listed as references; being listed is not an endorsement by or of the organisation.

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