Twist

AroView: Ron Mann’s toe-tapping, snappy chronicle of the pop dance crazes of the 1950s, culminating in its most popular form, The Twist.

It comes packed with terrific archival footage (incl. king ‘twisters’ Elvis Presley, Fats Domino and Little Richard), and later interviews with Hank Ballard and Chubby Checker, who respectively originated and popularised the song and dance of the same name.

As well as having a danceable beat, this charts the dance’s conception, rise, and fall, while reflecting on the complicated racial and class divides of the 1950s, and the shift from dance’s staid conformity to the rebel rousing, free-styling 1960s.