Sokkie is a style of music and dance unique to Southern Africa and popular mostly with Afrikaner

Afrikaner

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Sokkie dance is a style of social

Social dance

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 ballroom dance

Ballroom dance

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 with a partner

Partner dance

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It is also referred to in Afrikaans

Afrikaans

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 as "langarm", "sakkie-sakkie", "kotteljons" and "Water-pomp".

Similarly to American 'Sock Hop

Sock Hop

The sock hop was an informal sponsored dance at American high schools, typically held in the high school's own gym or cafeteria. The term sock hop came about because dancers were required to remove their shoes to protect the varnished floor of the gymnasium. These hops were a cultural feature of...

', sokkie, meaning ‘sock

Sock

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’ in Afrikaans, refers to the way young people

Youth

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 dance sokkie in their socks and often barefoot

Barefoot

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. Sokkie dancers in nightclubs

Nightclub

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 mostly wear shoes and dress smart casual

Smart casual

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Loopdans, two-step

Two-step

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, swing

Swing (dance)

"Swing dance" is a group of dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s-1950s, although the earliest of these dances predate swing jazz music. The best known of these dances is the Lindy Hop, a popular partner dance that originated in Harlem and is still danced today...

, boogie

Boogie

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, social foxtrot or quickstep

Quickstep

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 steps, are often danced together in sokkie.