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The Detroit Jit is an old dance, but it is still being performed. In this compilation you can see its origins in the Jitterbug, and decades of street influence:
This girl really knows how to hula hoop:
Spotter: Xeni at BoingBoing
You were the greatest performer of all time, a shattered genius.
Productivity boost: dutty wine during lunch break.
They dance to You Can't Touch This dressed in gold MC Hammer pants!
Performance in front of the Troubadour on Santa Monica Blvd.
Not for the documents. For the pulsating ceiling light display.
This is installed at the Watergate Club in Berlin.
Special thanks to Shuji Nakamura.
Adam Lisagor, Merlin Mann, and Scott Simpson of the You Look Nice Today podcast have unveiled a non-dance that is sure to take YouTube and the blogosphere by storm. There are many, many people out there who cannot dance (yet really want to dance).
If you have been to a party, alone, sipping beer there by the fireplace, listening to music, attempting to look like you're enjoying yourself, you may have inadverdently done the Fishstick dance.
Doing the "Fishstick" -- An Instructional Video.
Spotter: Mental Floss
I am so happy to have found Evan Roth's and Ben Engebreth's brilliantly absurd White Glove Tracking.
On May 4th, 2007, we asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson's white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. 72 hours later 125,000 gloves had been located. wgt_data_v1.txt (listed below) is the culmination of data collected.Source: White Glove Tracking
Tim Knapen added the Mickey Mouse glove effect, and the rest is history.
Spotter: A Welsh View.
I was a teenager when MC Hammer's take on the Running Man and other dance moves stormed the hip hop dance scene. Kid N' Play, Roger Rabbit, Robocop, and Cabbage Patch were all knocked out as everyone began dancing variations of MC Hammer's moves. I used to play his videos backwards and forwards in slow motion on my family's VCR, but even that dedicated research did not teach me as much as getting out onto the dance floor, watching and performing my own interpretations of what I saw.
MC Hammer has been building up DanceJam, a social community around dance moves where members can upload or point to videos and then compete. It already has an impressive list of dance moves, some of which we track here on Memecat.
It is all now accessible to the public so check it out!
Legendary engineer and free software advocate Richard Stallman knows how to do the Soulja Boy dance. And he didn't forget his laptop, either.
In the best dance-club Dutch that I can muster (echo effect optional): "Laten we dansen op de muziek, jumpstijl en legostijl!"
While checking out Thomas Stanton's banjo playing, I rediscovered clogging. This style of line dancing descends from England and Appalachia (and must have some influence from African American and Irish dance as well).
Red River Cloggers in Gatlinburg
NXS Clogging Team (Traditional)
Raw footage of backyard clogging, dancing and fiddling.
There are also a lot of contemporary interpretations of clogging to be found.
Boing Boing just pointed out an awesome mechanical dance performance called tractor square dancing.
This dance from France is taking Europe by storm. Tecktonic is Jumpen for the upper-body, or vogue for the tarmac guide. It is only a matter of time before Tecktonic requires the use of orange-coned flashlights; you already are required to wear something with stripes.
animpinabox put up a fantasitc compilation of popular World Of Warcraft dance moves and their origins:
List of Clips:
1: Saturday Night Fever (The music used in 'Saturday Night Fever' is BeeGees- You Should be Dancing.)
2: MC Hammer- Cant Touch This
3: Chubby Checker- The Twist
4: Alizee- J'en Ai Marre
5: Napoleon Dynamite
(The music used in 'Napoleon Dynamite' is Jamiroquai- Canned Heat.)
6: Daler Mehndi- Tunak Tunak Tun
7: Chris Farley Chippendales sketch
(The music used in this sketch is Loverboy- Working for the weekend.)
8: Britney Spears- Toxic (dance routine)
9: Michigan J. Frog
10:Riverdance
11:Michael Jackson: Billie Jean
12: Peanut Butter Jelly Time (The music used in Peanut Butter Jelly Time has the same title by the Buckwheat Boyz)
Source: World Of Warcraft: Dancing
Spotter: Alice, editor of the Wonderland Blog.
