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Were one movement to encapsulate the very essence of the 60s, it would be that surrounding The Twist. This simple dance, branded a threat to polite society, broke through the Lyceum Ballroom’s entrenched wall of restriction in 1961.
Young people back then wanted to shout and their collective shout was so loud that its reverberations are still heard today across the world.
The Twist expressed a particular kind of freedom that filled ballrooms and clubs across London with people who had never had the nerve to dance freely without choreographed dance steps. The craze spread like wildfire and eventually crossed all age barriers. Even Grannies began to twist. More than 50 different twist songs were recorded, from Hank Ballard's original 'The Twist' to ones by the seriously famous such as Frank Sinatra, The Beatles and the world’s most well-known twister: Chubby Checker.
Twist & Shout is the very fabric of London 60s Week’s intergenerational celebration of fun, vitality and joy. Apart from a world-record attempt for the biggest, longest Twist “line dance” ever, Guerrilla Twisting and 'Twist & Stitch' groups will be part of a city-wide Twist-a-thon in July 2010.
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