Amazing how a single dance can incite rebellion, open a new era, change a generation and define a chapter in history.
Below are the ones that ceremoniously created a wave in the world enough to sell millions of records, cement careers of celebrities and has a permanent mark in the world.
I can’t dance for my life but if I am given the chance to learn at least ten dance steps, these would be it.
10. The Strut
Find it on the video below at 4:44
How to do it: Just act like you are being electrocuted.
It was really the first legitimate step to all the pumping and grinding dance steps we see today. The boldest dance since Elvis’ hip-only action.
9. I Need To Pee
See the move at 0:10 on the video.
How to do it: Put your legs together like you are about to pee. One leg in front of the other. Point the toes of the leg in front. Then quickly put the other in front. Repeat.
Madonna shocked the world from the very first moment she stepped in the limelight and this particular dance steps introduced her to the world as one of the best dancers of all time. It was perceived to be too sexually provoking because in involved her looking like she’s tightening her… you probably get the picture.
8. Headspin/Handspin
How to do it: For the headspin, stand on your head. Spin. For the Handspin, use your hand instead of your haed.
Everyone thought the guy who first did this was committing suicide. I am not sure if there has ever been a reported casualty. There must be, they are spinning on their head for chrissake. People get paralyzed for turning their heads too fast.
7. MJ Hip Pop
How to do it: What the effin’ video. It’s hard to describe.
After the Elvis’ Hip Action move, MJ took it farther by not just moving his hips from side to side but by actually doing a pump action while holding his crotch.
6. Michael Jackson Circles
See the move at 3:33
How to do it: Stand up straight and slide your feet in a box shape. When you do this you don’t just want to slide them, you want to keep rotating from the balls of your feet to the heel. And because your feet are moving your body should be moving in the same direction, and when going into the turns, kind of lean of pretend your getting sucked in that way.
I think this guy asked the devil for dancing skills in exchange of his skin color.
5. Billie Jeans
The move is at 1:50 of the video.
How to do it: A little similar to the “I need to pee” of Madonna except he doesn’t move forward but leans forward.
4. Elvis Pelvis
See the move at 0:08
How to do it: Stand straight, get that confident aura around you, shake your kneed hard enough to shake your hips.
This is the move that sent the parents, churches and governments to the end of their wits. They found it too sexual, scandalous and vulgar. Remember that when Elvis came out, the reigning genre were that of Frank Sinatra, The Platters, and the likes. They were manufactured by recording labels. They were told what to sing, what to say and how to act. They were all prim and proper.
Then Elvis came along with a voice that seem to always have something blocking his throat and he was moving his hips like crazy that seem so ordinary now but that time, it was “satanic”. He was so different that artists around the globe who wanted to write their own songs and refused to be packaged by labels just thought of him as the messiah of music.
You can question his songwriting abilities or his voice or the songs he sang, that is always a subjective matter, but no one can question that he paved the way for rock and roll.
3. Thriller
How to do it: Just dance like a freakin’ zombie. This entire dance is legendary.
There is no one… i repeat, NO ONE… who can make a zombie look hot and make a zombie dance look so good.
2. Moonwalk
How to do it: I have no idea how he does it, he just does.
Not even Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong was able to do this when there were on the moon! Maybe if the dance already came out when there were on the moon, they would have given it a shot.
1. Elvis Knee
See the dance at 0:11 of the video
How to do it: Stand with your hands extended in front of you. Try to imitate the Elvis smile which is probably harder than imitating the dance but just give it a try. Bend your knees a bit. Do a swipe motion with your left knee from inside to outside. As your knee reaches your inside, do the same action using your right knee. Repeat.
Hail to the king is all there is left to say.
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