Hi Steve,

Let me say right at the outset you are perfectly free to do any dance and call it what you like.

However the "Upton Stick Dance" is a particular dance and there is another version often called "Upton Stick Dance" which was really the "Chingford Stick Dance" written by Geoff Hughes and indeed which is what most people dance. Geoff reckons he would be a millionaire if he had been able to copywrite it. (Which he hasn't and didn't).

The full story is here.