Tracing the steps that led to America's biggest dance craze, Ron Mann's documentary, TWIST, is fun and occasionally provocative, like the hip-shaking dance itself.
Mixing stock footage and present-day interviews with yesterday's dance-makers, TWIST studies the evolution of popular dance from the 1950s into the 60s. Mann covers many of new dance steps, like the Itch and the Stroll, that emerged as rock 'n' roll began to dominate the radio. But it was
primarily TV, which could suddenly bring new dance steps into the nation's living rooms, that helped turn the Twist into a national mania.
An interview with Hank Ballard, who wrote and recorded "The Twist" in...
Released:
1992
Rated:
PG
Length:
78 mins