abstract:The hand jive is a dance particularly associated with music of the 1950s, rhythm and blues in particular. It involves a complicated pattern of hand moves and claps at various parts of the body, following and/or imitating the percussion instruments.
"Tue" by Marco Goecke (to French songs by Barbara) was aflutter with hand-jive and did the handsome Canadian no favors especially given Tony Marques's lighting, which made the dancer's smooth torso look especially flabby at the waistline.