Current sectionArt & CultureShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribe"Learn to dance in your own home": dance guides written by Shemi Perry. Credit: Adi Perry'The hips have a great future': In 1962, a Haaretz reporter went hunting for the dance craze gripping Hebrew youth. It led him to a Tel Aviv ballroom school whose family story now stretches from Thessaloniki to Elvis's Graceland01:45 PM • August 06 2026 IDT"The last word in dance fashion" – that's how columnist Nathan Dunevich defined the phenomenon he went investigating, in 1962, at a "Jaffa nightclub." "In recent months, Hebrew youth have joined the millions of teenagers, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, gripped by the twist craze," Dunevich explained. "I'm not going to describe this dance step by step, but one thing can be said for certain: the hips have a great future ahead of it. For the coming months, at least."In the NewsLike We Did in the Summer of '62: The Year the Twist Took Over Tel AvivA Diss Track of Saint Levant Asks What Famous Palestinians Should BeUnlike Israel's Latest Influencer, Charli XCX Would Have Recognized RabinThe Way Netanyahu Treated His Brother's Partner Is the Way He Treats IsraelisCan Hot-air Balloons Lift Tourism Back to Israel's Gaza Border?Remembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIThis Israeli ultra-Orthodox Feminist Activist Has a Warning for U.S. JewsHow Israel's Elbit Armed the United Arab Emirates'I Tried, I Got Crushed by AIPAC': Andy Levin Is All-in for El-SayedIt's No Wonder Israelis Want War. Violence Has Become a Source of JoyDozens of IDF Soldiers Desert Sde Teiman Base in Protest of CommanderIsrael Captured 230 Square Miles of Lebanon, Razed Villages and Built New Bases