# Bugg

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{{Short description|Swedish partner dance}}

thumb|Couples dancing Swedish bugg
'''Bugg''' is a common dance style in [Sweden](/source/Sweden) and is very popular on the dance floors when [dansband](/source/dansband)s play.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=Made in Sweden: Studies in Popular Music |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2016 |isbn=9781134858507 |editor-last=Björnberg |editor-first=Alf |editor-last2=Bossius |editor-first2=Thomas}}</ref> Bugg is a dance in {{music|time|4|4}} time and performed at different paces (120–180 beats per minute). Bugg is a [partner dance](/source/partner_dance) and follows certain basic rules, but is essentially improvised, with one partner following the other's lead. Acrobatic moves are not allowed on national or international dance competitions. Swedish bugg belongs to the [swing dance](/source/swing_dance) family and closely resembles [modern jive](/source/Modern_Jive).

Bugg is both a very popular [social dance](/source/social_dance) as well as a [competitive dance](/source/competitive_dance) in [Sweden](/source/Sweden). It also has the most competitors and practitioners within the [Swedish Dancesport Federation](/source/Swedish_Dancesport_Federation).

A variant called [double bugg](/source/double_bugg) is performed by one leader and two followers.

==Short history==
Bugg is a Swedish phenomenon whose popularity gradually expanded in the wider Nordic region.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Hoppu |first=Petri |title=Nordic Dance Spaces: Practicing and Imagining a Region |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2016 |isbn=9781317086802 |editor-last=Vedel |editor-first=Karen |pages=41 |editor-last2=Hoppu |editor-first2=Petri}}</ref> The Swedish dancer Nils-Håkan Carlzon has been listed as a pioneer of the dance, developing its movements during his time at the Nerikes Dance Institute.<ref name=":1" /> 

The dance has been described as a variant of the early [Lindy Hop](/source/Lindy_Hop)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Positive sociology of leisure: contemporary perspectives |date=2020 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-3-030-41812-0 |editor-last=Kōno |editor-first=Shintarō |series=Leisure studies in a global era |location=Cham, Switzerland |editor-last2=Beniwal |editor-first2=Anju |editor-last3=Baweja |editor-first3=Priyanka |editor-last4=Spracklen |editor-first4=Karl}}</ref> ([jitterbug](/source/jitterbug)<ref>{{Cite book |last=McGee |first=Kristin |title=Remixing European Jazz Culture |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2019 |isbn=9780429999284}}</ref>), swing,<ref name=":1" /> and also rock 'n' roll,<ref name=":0" /> which came to Sweden in the mid-1940s. In films from a famous dance place called [Nalen](/source/Nalen) in [Stockholm](/source/Stockholm), one can see the Swedish style of Lindy Hop. This style has various dialects and variants, but .

When bugg [dance competition](/source/dance_competition)s began in Sweden during the mid-1970s, there was only one class for all participants: "freestyle". This was split in 1983 into two different styles, "social bugg" and freestyle. The following year, the styles were reorganized into freestyle and "rock".

Later on, these two styles more or less merged into a single style, which is what is generally seen today. Variants are found throughout the country, but the basics are more or less the same. All versions lack acrobatic elements. Today, bugg is one of the most popular social dances in Swedish dance clubs.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130325181539/http://iof1.idrottonline.se/SvenskaDanssportforbundet/KONTAKT/DistriktochForeningar/ Swedish dance clubs], iof1.idrottonline.se</ref>

==See also==
*[List of dance style categories](/source/List_of_dance_style_categories)
*[List of dances](/source/List_of_dances)
*[Competitive dance](/source/Competitive_dance)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

Category:Dance in Sweden
Category:Dancesport
Category:Competitive dance
Category:Swing dances
Category:Social dance

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