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On the Dance Floor

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A few of the words

BOOGALOO
The Boogaloo swept dance floors in the mid-1960s, blending soul, Latin, and R&B into one loose-limbed style that felt effortless even when it wasn't.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SHIMMY
Shaking the shoulders in place, the shimmy has roots stretching back to early jazz clubs of the 1910s, long before it became a Motown staple.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
STOMP
A stomp isn't just a step, it's punctuation. Motown arrangers often wrote the rhythm section so the stomp landed exactly on the downbeat, rattling the floorboards.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
GROOVE
In the studio era, 'being in the groove' originally referred to a phonograph needle riding the record's spiral track, a perfect image for music that kept you locked in and moving.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About On the Dance Floor

When the bass line dropped and the horns hit just right, no one stayed seated. From the sock hops of the late 1950s to the velvet-lit ballrooms of the Motown era, the dance floor was the place where music became physical, a shared language of rhythm and motion. The shimmy, the strut, the slow dip at the end of a ballad: every move told a story only the body could finish.

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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