Editing Electric Slide (section)

{{Short description|Line dance}}
{{For|the film|Electric Slide (film)}}
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'''The Electric''' (better known as '''The Electric Slide''') is a four wall [[line dance]]. Choreographer and dancer Richard L. "Ric" Silver claims to have created the dance in 1976.<ref name=lida-2003/>

Dance popularity is sometimes attributed to its setting to [[Marcia Griffiths]] and [[Bunny Wailer]]'s song "[[Electric Boogie]]", which was written and recorded for the first time in December 1982.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wblk.com/marcia-griffiths-todays-1-hit-wonder-1-video/ |title = Marcia Griffiths – Today's 1 Hit Wonder @ 1 [VIDEO]| date=18 February 2013 }}</ref><ref>[https://americansongwriter.com/who-wrote-the-electric-slide-dance-song-electric-boogie/ The Electric Slide Dance], '' American Songwriter''</ref><ref>[https://electroreggae.com/2019/01/bunny-wailer-marcia-griffiths-electric-boogie/ 1976 – Bunny Wailer & Marcia Griffiths: Electric Boogie]</ref>
 
There are several variations of the dance. The original choreography has 22 steps,<ref>{{cite web |last=Silver |first=Ric |title=This is 'The Electric' - The Complete Choreography |url=http://the-electricslidedance.com/the-complete-choreography.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708162411/http://the-electricslidedance.com/the-complete-choreography.html |archive-date=2018-07-08 |access-date=2016-11-30 |publisher=The-electricslidedance.com}}</ref> but variants include the Freeze (16-step), Cowboy Motion (24-step), Cowboy Boogie (24-step), and the Electric Slide 2 (18-step). The 18-step variation became popular in 1989 and for ten years was listed by ''Linedancer Magazine'' as the number-one dance in the world.{{cn|date=July 2016}}

The original dance was choreographed to be danced in two lines facing each other and in the course the opposite dancers circle each other.<ref name=lida-2003>''LineDancer Magazine'', [http://onlinedancer.co.uk/pdfs/85.pdf June 2003], p. 9.</ref>