Lipsi (dance)
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The Lipsi is a dance created in East Germany as a communist alternative to decadent Western rock and roll-influenced dancing. Specifically, the group dancing was seen as less sexual than partner dance, where the female follows the male's lead.
The Lipsi was created in 1959.[1] It was poorly received by youth, with protests beginning in summer 1959 that mocked Walter Ulbricht and supported Elvis Presley.[2]
David Byrne described Lipsi as "a weird sexless popular dance ... that the government attempted to insert into popular culture as a kind of immunization against Elvis’s rock-and-roll gyrations."[3]
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