Sokkie Dance
Sokkie dance is a style of social ballroom dance with a partner.
It is also referred to in Afrikaans as "langarm", "sakkie-sakkie", "kotteljons" and "Water-pomp".
Similarly to American 'Sock Hop', sokkie, meaning ‘sock’ in Afrikaans, refers to the way young people dance sokkie in their socks and often barefoot. Sokkie dancers in nightclubs mostly wear shoes and dress smart casual.
Loopdans, two-step, swing, boogie, social foxtrot or quickstep steps, are often danced together in sokkie. A boerewals, which is a viennese waltz is also danced as sokkie.
Sokkie is not only danced to sokkie music, but can be danced to many music genres, for example hip-hop, trance, country and pop.
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