If you’ve been to an Aussie school dance or wedding, chances are you’ve been a part of – or at least witnessed – what outsiders might consider a strange cultural phenomenon – scores of people all dancing to Tina Turner’s Nutbush City Limits. But despite being central to our social events, no one knows who choreographed the iconic moves. Thankfully, 2 professors from Western Oz are determined to solve the mystery… Panizza Allmark and Jon Stratton say while “nobody has come forward”, they’ve narrowed down the search to a teacher’s conference in NSW in 1975. It’s not exactly where you’d expect a dance fad to be created, but Allmark says it’s stood the test of time because “it’s intergenerational – parents, grandparents and children all learn the Nutbush”. And perhaps also because it’s a bit like a lot of us… “It’s cool, but slightly daggy”.