When young people in the United States get together for fun, probably they will dance. The ways that boys and girls dance will often change every year. Theylearning the newest dances.

    Years ago, the dances of young people were not very different from those of their parents, but high school and college students of today havetheir own music and dances. They like the new music that people can dance to in different ways.

    In the USA, there are many dances that are loved by young people, but the history of the dances isn't, the Twist(摇摆舞), for example. In the late 1950s, Chubby Checker started a dance that he called the "Twist" to make himself slim. The Twist, like many new dances, was very lively, and people who performed it used a lot of, After performing his new dance hundreds of times, Chubby was no longer as fat as before. The word "chubby" means "very fat". That was why the singer and dancer called him Chubby.