Talk:Shag (dance)

Because what is written about shag in this page is related or purely collegiate shag, it should be moved to Collegiate Shag to prevent confusion and this page should stand more as a disambiguation page. 132.204.227.175 20:19, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

To do list
I removed the "To Do" list from the article and am putting it here. --Cswrye 01:45, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Shag with promenade hands behind back and half spins. double kicks. Scissors. kick tap, kick tap, kick kick. Circling in shag.

Merge collegiate shag and Carolina shag here?
I do not know very much about the varieties of shag, but as long as the articles are as short as they are now it IMO makes more sense to merge them into one article. Even the differences between the different shag types are probably better expanded on in one article, than in three. // Habj 20:12, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that I'm going to oppose this merge. From my understanding, the two dances are not related to each other in any significant way except that they happen to have the same name. Both are generally placed within the category of swing dance, but the nature of the dances and the type of music that they are danced to is very different. Collegiate shag came first, but from my understanding, Carolina shag is not derived from it, and the most recent common ancestor that they both have is Charleston. I would say that collegiate shag has more in common with balboa than with Carolina shag. --Cswrye 21:27, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * If so (and I really do not know much on the subject) this page should probably be made into a disambig page, as the not-logged-in user above says. // Habj 00:10, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * That makes sense to me. Unless there's an influx of people who disagree, I think that's something we can work on. --Cswrye 22:10, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Both dances do share an "all the action is in the feet" philosophy that isn't necessarily present in other swing dances, so they may be related. My first exposure to Collegiate Shag (the 8 count one with the same rhtyhm as balboa) was from Betty Wood, who danced in South Carolina in the 1930's.
 * Oppose. Balboa is footwork-centric, but I doubt anyone would think of merging shag and balboa!  From what I've seen, collegiate shag and carolina shag are very different dances danced to very different music.  Like previous poster said, they simply happen to share a word in their name.  -- geekyßroad . meow?'' 04:42, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I added the three different shag dances (collegiate shag, Carolina shag, and St. Louis shag) to the Shag disambiguation page. I think that we should merge the information on this article into the other shag articles, then make this article a redirect to the disambiguation page. This will let users see all three shag dances on the list and go to the one they want. --Cswrye 04:37, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and did the merge. Pretty much all of the information on this article was on collegiate shag, so I merged it into that article. I changed this article into a redirect to shag, which disambiguates the three different shag dances. --Cswrye 15:17, 9 August 2006 (UTC)