The Hustle (Disco) was born in the Latin Clubs and Discos of the 1970s. It has lots of open traveling movements, spins and syncopations; and is danced to disco and house music with a pulsing beat. The Hustle is often peppered with showy moves that competitive dancers weaved into their repertoire throughout the late 1970s and 1980s; as it continued to evolve, Hustle began to borrow from other dance styles. These included Smooth Ballroom, from which it took traveling movements and pivots, as well as other partner dance forms such as Swing, the Latin and Rhythm dances, martial arts, gymnastics, ballet, and good old fashioned “attitude,” making for crowd-pleasing performances. Hustle combined dance patterns and movements that influenced the way that most partner dances are performed today. Even today the dance continues to evolve, yet it has never lost its basic count since the mid-1970s of “&1-2-3”. The Hustle is the last authentic American partner dance born and cultivated here in the United States.