The dance is thought to have grown from a scheme combining the creative arts and physical education in primary schools in the states of New South Wales or Queensland.
But others say it was never part of Australia’s education curriculum, and was instead spread by individual teachers, copying what they had seen in other schools.
Interdisciplinary artist Kay Armstrong first encountered the Nutbush as a primary school student newly-arrived in Western Australia from England in the late 1970s.
She told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2018: “We learnt the Nutbush in primary school, and then in high school, and then I’ve probably done it at every wedding I’ve gone to since.”
The country’s keenest Nutbush fans have set world records for the largest number of people performing the dance.
Some 4,084 people performed the dance at the Birdsville Big Red Bash in Queensland to break the previous record.
A month later another 3,700 people gathered for the dance at the Mundi Mundi Bash in Broken Hill, New South Wales, but failed to set a new record.
Source: | This article originally belongs to Nbcnews.com
