charleston

A number of places in the United States:

A number of places in the United States:

A number of places in the United States:

A number of places in the United States:

A number of places in the United States:

A dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina.

Dubbed “the Black Venus”, she danced the charleston in nothing but a string of pearls and a skirt made of 16 rubber bananas, performed with a snake wrapped suggestively round her neck, strolled down the Champs-Élysées with her pet cheetah, and became an international superstar. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/28/dancer-singer-spy-frances-pantheon-to-honour-josephine-baker

To dance the Charleston.

The Cambridge professor was charlestoning madly with a well-built woman in a backless evening dress; there were dark patches under his arms where the sweat had soaked through his suit.

[…] in the Jazz Age she shook, shimmied and charlestoned whilst men just ogled.