Shimmy
Sign in to savethumb|right|250px|1918 sheet music "Everybody Shimmies Now" with Mae West thumb|250px|right|When the Alamo Theater in Atlanta used a cutout display of Viola Dana with separately mounted shoulders and a mechanism to do a shimmy for the film ''The Chorus Girl's Romance'' (1920), the chief of police ordered the mechanism turned off. A shimmy or shoulder shakes is a dance move in which the body is held still, except for the shoulders, which are quickly alternated back and forth. When the right shoulder goes back, the left one comes forward.
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thumb|right|250px|1918 sheet music "Everybody Shimmies Now" with Mae West thumb|250px|right|When the Alamo Theater in Atlanta used a cutout display of Viola Dana with separately mounted shoulders and a mechanism to do a shimmy for the film ''The Chorus Girl's Romance (1920), the chief of police ordered the mechanism turned off. A shimmy or shoulder shakes is a dance move in which the body is held still, except for the shoulders, which are quickly alternated back and forth. When the right shoulder goes back, the left one comes forward.
== United States == In 1917, a dance-song titled "Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble" by Spencer Williams was published, as "The Jazz Dance", which included the "Shimmy-She", among others.
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