Hustle The Hustle was born in New York's Latin community. Young Latinos were born in a culture where dancing together was the norm, but they wanted to dance to more contemporary music than the Mambo of their parents. Slowly the Latin Hustle was developed and emerged as a club style. The mainstream young people caught on to the music, and the dance style, and Hustle quickly became hugely popular, all over America and Europe, fueled in part by the movie, Saturday Night Fever. As hustle developed, many different styles emerged. In the late '70's, with the emergence of punk rock and the anti-disco movement, the hustle faded in popular culture -- but it never died! The hustle fanatics of the '70's never gave up on the dance, and it retained a cult popularity at underground clubs through the '80's. During this time, hustle kept developing and changing, and the hustle that is danced today bears little resemblance to the hustle of the '70's. Hustle is danced to the contemporary pop dance music of the last 20 years. It is a fast, smooth dance, with the lady spinning almost constantly, while her partner draws her close and sends her away. It is a challenging dance, with a rhythmic pattern which plays with the timing of the music.

Hustle Music: Much of today's contemporary hits have the Hustle beat. From Disco to 70's Funk and from the Backstreet Boys to Bjork, the Saturday Night Fever lives on.

The Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive" "You Should Be Dancin'" Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive" Madonna "Vogue" Deee Lite "Groove is in the Heart" Everything But the Girl "Missing You" Van McCoy "The Hustle" Michael Jackson "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" "Rock With You"