Get down

It involves bending at the waist and knees, bringing the body low to the ground in moments of ecstasy or intensity.

[1] Bending at the knees and waist indicates suppleness and conveys qualities and values of vitality, youthfulness and energy.

[2][3] In Gahu choreography, often dancers move counterclockwise in a circle of alternating men and women; their performance includes "long passages of a lightly bouncy basic 'step' leavened with brief 'get down' sections in which the dancers lower their center of weight and move with intensified strength and quickness.

"[4] The term "get down" in popular music and slang is directly related to this particular element of the African aesthetic, filtered through the African-American experience.

[citation needed] Use of the term by white Americans since the middle-20th century, though, is credited to the influence of a white disc jockey, Bill "Hoss" Allen, who used it on his nightly soul music shows on Nashville, Tennessee station WLAC.