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First steps for Nutbush

For 50 years, Australian primary school students have been learning the steps to a dance that will carry them through social events and weddings and allow them to locate other Australians across crowded nightclubs anywhere in the world.

Nowhere else do they do the Nutbush. But while almost every Australian knows the steps, no one knows who created the dance.

Two professors – Panizza Allmark from Edith Cowan University in Western Australia and Jon Stratton from the University of

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