DANCES

From its early-1950s beginning through the early 1960s, rock and roll music inspired new dances. Teenagers found the irregular rhythm of the backbeat especially suited to reviving the jitterbug dancing of the big-band era. "Sock hops", gym dances, and home basement dance parties became the rage (popular), and American teens watched Dick Clark's American Bandstand to keep up on the latest dance and fashion styles.

From the midle-1960s, as "rock and roll”, later dance genres followed, starting with the twist,  and leading up to funk, disco, house, techno, and hip hop.  During the development of the musical genre rock and roll, dances to go with the music were also created. From swing, which came into being around 1920, Lindy Hop emerged, the first partner dance ever to feature acrobatic elements.