For the last several evenings, the Telus Light on Your Feet event at Yonge-Dundas Square has been offering one-hour dance lessons for those wanting to get out and boogie. Tonight from 7-8 p.m. it's time to burn baby burn with a lesson in disco. Producer and host Vince Parrell, owner and director of Vince Parrell's Dance Show, tells how to do disco dancing.
"We're going to be doing presentations of line dances, such as The Hustle, done to that song 'Do the Hustle' in 1979, by the Big Apple. Disco initially was all line dancing. Finally the ladies can come up alone. They don't need the men."
Disco encompasses dances that originated with funk, soul or even salsa music. "It can also be a partnered dance," says Parrell, "very similar to the jive or the swing. Except this time we have a little bit more of a rock `n' roll back-and-forth motion. We might even bump hips. In fact, there was a dance called the Bump."
Come down at 7 p.m., Parrell says. "We'll have the whole square up line dancing." Music comes courtesy of Disco Inferno.
-Susan Walker
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