Madison (dance)
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The Madison is a novelty dance that was popular in the late 1950s to mid 1960s. It was created by a very famous hairdresser of the time called Malcolm Stern. Whilst travelling extensively in Spain on a dance exploration holiday he and his team found the dance so inspiring they brought it back to the West End and it was first performed at Le Discoteque in Wardour Street, Soho, London. [citation needed]
Alternately, the dance was created and first danced in Columbus, Ohio in 1957. [1]
It is a line dance that features a regular back-and-forth pattern interspersed with called steps. Its popularity inspired dance teams and competitions, as well as various recordings, and today it is still sometimes performed as a nostalgic dance. It was demonstrated in a famous sequence of the Jean-Luc Godard film Bande à part, as well as in the John Waters movie Hairspray; and it continues to be performed in the Broadway musical Hairspray.
The dance is referred in the film Rocky Horror Picture Show.
In the 1970's the dance re-emerged as "The Nutbush", performed to Tina Turner's song Nutbush City Limits.
