Ric silver biography

Line dance

For the film, see Electric Slide (film).

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.^[1]

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.^[2][3][4]

There are several variations of the dance.

The original choreography has 22 steps,^[5] 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.^{[citation needed]}

The original dance was choreographed to be danced in two lines facing each other and in the course the opposite dancers