Most of the dances that have gained traction on TikTok fit into the same aesthetic description as “Renegade.” Dances, like the “Say So” dance or the “Obsessed” dance, are also almost entirely choreographed from the hips up and stay in one place. TikTok dancers are ruled by the necessity to fit their choreography within the restrictions of a one minute time frame if they want to appeal to the attention span of an average user. Breakdancing was developed on the streets of New York City, where cardboard was used as a surface on which the technique was perfected. For ballet, the confines of a stage instruct choreographic patterns that cater to the rows and tiers of seated audience members. Tiktok/Charli D'AmelioĬhoreography and techniques of dance have always been influenced by spatial and temporal limitations. SEE ALSO: Is Instagram Now a Ballet Dancer’s Best Pathway to Fame? Charli D’Amelio’s viral ‘Renegade’ video. Its most appealing quality is that anyone with an hour to spare, even your grandma, can learn it. It’s fast, but it’s also formulaic, simplistic, and it fits within the confines of an iPhone camera frame. The rest of the dance is 99 percent arm movements with one hip wiggle towards the end. It starts with hitting the woah (ask an 11-year-old what this is if you don’t know), then a hand clap, followed by making a figure eight with the right arm. The dance is an intricate, but fragmented series of steps. Instagram user has been noted as the originator of the “Renegade” dance, but it wasn’t until 15-year-old Hype House resident (and probable Young Cousin to someone somewhere) Charli D’Amelio posted a video of the dance to TikTok in October 2019 that it went viral and completely took over social media. But my interest in the viral obsession with these simple dance moves didn’t end there.Įven if you’re not learning the dance, this short sequence of moves has become almost impossible to avoid. I decided then that despite my ample free time, I was not prepared to spend a whole hour on this endeavor. Young Cousin later informed me that it took her, in total, one hour to learn the dance. But after 15 minutes of many complex arm movements, I got frustrated that I wasn’t already incredible at it and gave up. Young Cousin tried to teach me the viral “Renegade” dance, set to the K Camp song “Lottery (Renegade),” that I had seen cool teens doing on the app. Young cousins are notoriously great at TikTok, the rapidly growing short-form video app, and late 20-somethings are notoriously not, so I trusted that I was in competent hands. Tiktok and dance Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFPĭuring my time at home during the winter holidays, between wrapping presents and complaining about the lack of potato chips at my dad’s house, I did what I can only assume millions, if not billions, of other late-20 somethings were also doing during this extended period spent with teenage family members: I asked my younger cousin to teach me a TikTok dance.
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