Piper Shake

A little wiki digging will tell you where this whole Harlem Shake thing supposedly came from. The origin of all origins is the Ethiopian "Eskista" dance...

Which was then taken up in the 1980s and 90s and turned into this...

And then has recently gone viral in millions of forms, normally performed with your group or club association of choice, such as this swim team...

And then brilliant people take this general concept and clip together shots of some of our favorite people, namely John Piper, doing what is now called the "Harlem Shake"...

If you were as clueless about this whole shake thing as I was as of two days ago, hopefully this was enlightening. So next time you are on the dance floor and this little ditty comes on, think Ethiopia and John Piper. Surely, somewhere between those two ends of the spectrum, you will find the well-balanced shake.

Happy Wednesday!