Monday, February 28, 2011

Flogger Boys dance electro

I know it is old (2008) but was inspired by Josh's post this week (23 February):

http://www.milkboys.org/article/double-dance/

Flogger is a teenager fashion originated in Argentina at the end of 2004, which is closely related to Fotolog, a photoblog web site. Emerged from the glam fashion, and merged with elements of several other styles, it has become very popular among young people, to almost become a craze. The style is principally composed of tight trousers on males and females alike, broad V-neck T-shirts, fluorescent colors, canvas sneakers or skate shoes, blonde or black hair, long fringe brushed to one side of the face or over one eye, straight hair and horn-rimmed glasses. It is common to call "floggers" to any adolescent followers of this style.

This fashion has also developed a particular way of dancing electro house and techno music, called Electro - although this term already had the same meaning it has in English in reference to the electronic music in general. The moves, related to the French tecktonik, Belgian jumpstyle and the Australian shuffle, consist of rapidly spreading one leg, hitting the floor with the heel, and drawing the other leg backwards, and then quickly changing the position of the legs (spreading the other leg, and shifting backwards the one that was spread).

^{From Wikipedia}