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Idiot dancing: expressiveness, headbanging, and the trance experience

Social Identities August 14, 2026 Jon Stratton

Idiot dancing is a British term. It was mostly used between the late 1960s and the mid-to-late 1970s. It referred to an extreme form of what I am calling here expressive dancing. Expressive dancing refers to dancing that is lacking, or almost lacking, in any choreography. Rather, expressive dancing is dancing where the dancer responds to the beat, other embellishments from the drummer and...