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UAH Dance Club gets sued?
This post is in reference to another post I made around February 8th, 2006. In it, I describe how Mr. Ric Silver threatened to sue me and the UAH Dance Club for having taught The Electric Slide. Please read that post first.

Here posted below is my response to him along with his original e-mail below that. So far, nothing has happened on his end in response to my response. Bastard.

Tonini Out!

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Dear Ric,
I received your letter stating that it is illegal for me to post instructions on how to dance The Electric Slide. I am e-mailing you to get my point across directly!

Nowhere on my website (http://www.uah.edu/danceclub) does it give choreography instruction on The Electric Slide. It simply states that "The Electric Slide" will be taught on January 20th, 2006. No choreography is posted.

Your e-mail says you took a look at my website and "after viewing your site I have found that it - as most of the sites I have visited - have an incorrect version of my choreography." How about you the human, instead of some search and e-mail script routine, actually take a detailed look at my website before you send me this erroneous e-mail and waste my valuable time.

On top of the absence of choreography, if you took a look at our website you would have realized that the lesson was free and we would not have made ANY profit, moron!

I will not be bothered by the likes of you. You are only out to get undeserved monetary benefit.

The Electric Slide is one of the most common club and community dances in America. Any Joe Schmo knows it and can give instruction to his friends on this dance. That is what we did. How can you possibly copyright that act and try to enforce it? It is a Standard Social Dance.

If anything, I'm helping you out because now more people will know what the Electric Slide is, so what is the issue here?

We are a non-profit university club. We exist simply to promote the enjoyment of dancing to the students of UAH and the people of the surrounding community. If you sue us, then you sue every single member of our organization--and there are many--and most of all the entire University of Alabama in Huntsville. Is that really something you want to take on?

This is ridiculous! You are ridiculous! In all honesty, with all the errors you have made in contacting me and reading over your website, this must be a hoax.

Dancing is an act, not a business. I refuse to be taken down by your big-business methods.

GO BOTHER SOMEONE ELSE!

Not respectfully,
Ryan Tonini
UAH Dance Club President
http://www.uah.edu/danceclub



> It is illegal for you to teach the Electric Slide and
> charge money. I own the copyright to this dance and if you
> are making money off my choreography - then you owe me
> money.
>
> Please contact my lawyer - Dedra Davis at your earliest
> convenience at 713-981-3861 in Houston Texas.
>
> http://www.uah.edu/danceclub/events.htm<http://www.uah.edu/danceclub/events.htm>
>
>
> Copyright 6/02/76 by Ric Silver
> Registered with the Library of Congress PA 1-274-833
>
> Paperwork is posted at
> http://the-electricslidedance.com<http://the-electricslid> edance.com/> or
> http://the-electricslide.com/id6.html<http://the-electricslide.com/id6.html>
>
>
>
>
> originally sent out on 4/17/03
>
> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> My name is Ric Silver. In 1976, I choreographed "The
> Electric Slide" for Vamps Disco in New York City.
>
> I am writing to inform you that I have retained a legal
> firm to handle the lawsuit against the following:
> DEJ Productions, for their use of "The Electric " in the
> film "Nobody's Baby";
> Touchstone Pictures/Warner Bros. for their use of "The
> Electric" in the film "The Replacements";
> "The Super" with Joe Pechi (the only film to actually use
> the correct choreography);
> Chris Rock for "Head of State"
> And "The Parkers" Television show - Episode #018 (used the
> correct choreography). All used "The Electric" without
> permission or credit.
>
> In a search of the internet, your site has been
> listed as having "The Electric Slide" choreography and
> after viewing your site I have found that it - as most of
> the sites I have visited - have an incorrect version of my
> choreography. In as much as I have not given permission
> for anyone to print or film this choreography - your site
> will be listed as a co-defendant in the above-mentioned
> suit.
>
>
>
> If you are teaching The Electric Slide you must stop
> immediately or contact me or my lawyer to make arrangement
> for payment of fees.
>
> If you have a website that lists the choreography for The
> Electric Slide you may:
>
> 1) You may correct your site to reflect the correct
> choreography which I have posted at the end of this
> letter
>
> Or
>
> 2) You can remove this illegal and incorrect version of
> "The Electric Slide" from your site.
>
> See
> http://the-electricslide.com/id6.html<http://the-electricslide.com/id6.html>
>
> or the Official Electric Slide Homepage at
> http://the-electricslidedance.com<http://the-electricslidedance.com/>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Ric Silver
> NYCsDancer@hotmail.com<mailto:nycsdancer@hotmail.com>
> 35 Village Lane #2
> Groton, CT 06340
> 860-448-6341
>
>
>
>
> "The Electric"
>
> aka The Electric Slide
>
> Choreographed in 1976 for the re-opening of Vamps Disc at
> 71st and Broadway in New York City
>
> The Electric Slide
>
> TYPE: 4 Wall Line Dance Rating: Beginner to Advanced
> COUNT: 22 STEPS: 22
> CHOREOGRAPHER: Ric Silver
> MUSIC:Electric Boogie - Marcia Griffiths
>
> STEP DESCRIPTION:
>
> GRAPEVINE Right, TOUCH
> 1,2. Step to the right on RIGHT foot; Step LEFT foot
> behind Right foot; 3,4 Step to the right on RIGHT foot;
> Touch LEFT foot next to Right foot (clap) GRAPEVINE Left,
> TOUCH 5,6. Step to the left on LEFT foot; Step RIGHT foot
> behind Left foot; 7,8 Step to the left on LEFT foot; Touch
> RIGHT foot next to Left foot (clap) WALK BACK, TOUCH
> 9-11. Walk back stepping on RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT
> 12. Touch LEFT foot next to Right foot (clap)
> STEP, TOUCH, STEP, TOUCH, STEP, TOUCH, STEP, TOUCH, STEP
> with 1/4 TURN , HOP 13,14 Step forward on LEFT foot; Touch
> RIGHT foot toe to Left heel (clap) 15,16 Step backward on
> RIGHT foot; Touch LEFT foot toe to Right toe (snap) 17,18
> Step forward on LEFT foot; Touch RIGHT foot toe to Left
> heel (clap) 19,20 Step backward on RIGHT foot; Touch LEFT
> foot toe to Right toe (snap) 21,22 Step forward on LEFT
> foot, turning 1/4 turn to your left; Hop
>
> BEGIN DANCE AGAIN
>
>
> More advanced dancers can vary steps with turns in
> grapevines or slide, slide, slide - kicks (14 & 18) touch
> behind or hand to floor (16 & 20) - Hop may be substituted
> with Tour d'lair (turn in the air).
>
> This was originally choreographed for professional dancers
> and was done in 2 lines facing each other. They should BOX
> each other - that is to say, circle the opposite dancer.
> This version was only performed a few times with
> professional dancers as I found that non-dancers found the
> intricacies too difficult to handle. I only taught it as a
> single line dance at VAMPS. I hope that now that the dance
> has been around for a while, once they learn the correct
> 22 steps, they would be able to manage this version as
> well.
>
>
> Copyright 6/02/76 by Ric Silver Registered with the
> Library of Congress
>
> This choreography is also know as "Freeze"; "The Arizona
> Slide"; "Cowboy Electric Slide"; "Cowboy Motion" ; "Cowboy
> Boogie"; "Electric Eel's Team Dance" - all of which are
> incorrect versions of this original "Electric Slide" but
> with steps omitted or added.
>
>
>