Awesome Choreography

Damien Jalet is renowned for his artful choreography of the human form. If you haven’t seen his work in Thom Yorke and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Anima, you must. His 2015 collab with fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, Gravity Fatigue, featured a troupe of dancers working in perfect sync so they look like freeze frames from the same movement.

Choreographer Sergio Reis and members of Netherlands-based CDK Company flex their muscles with a fantastic modern dance set to Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know. The picture-perfect photography and wide-angle shots are straight out of a Wes Anderson movie. Their performance of Eye in the Wall by Perfume Genius is similarly captivating.

When marching bands reach a corner, they typically need a wide berth to fit everyone side by side. But the Ohio State University Marching Band turns tight corners with style. Watch as dozens of band members maneuver into a narrow point, then fan back out as they come around the bend. Here’s what a normal turn looks like at that same corner.

If you spend any time on TikTok or Instagram, you’ve probably seen the Pimp Named Slickback dance craze. Originated by Jubi2fye, the crazy gliding foot move has blown up with dancers around the world. Now, variants of the fancy footwork have started to emerge, and this brain-bending version posted by he02445300 is on a whole other level.

Object manipulator SHAO shows off an amazing stage prop that can smoothly change shapes in the hands of the right performer. Designed by flow arts prop maker Thomas Foyk, this series of interconnected rods can morph from a cube into various other geometries.

For the opening ceremonies of the 20th Letní Letná festival in Prague, 32 acrobats performed while hanging from a spinning truss suspended by a crane. Artists duo.extend were part of this display from Cirkus Cirkor’s Aquanauts, an amazing show that brings together acrobats, aerialists, and synchronized swimmers in a show combining water, air, and fire.

Hittesh Patel’s unique combination of tutting, popping, and contortion sets him apart from other performers. In this clip, his hands become a bird, his body becomes geometric shapes, and he demonstrates control over his individual toes that we didn’t know was physically possible.

This self-proclaimed “little nerd robot” sure can dance. Bryan CHIBI Gaynor’s moves are more machine than human. This Robot Cannot Human has a knack for choreographing robotic dance moves to unlikely songs like Alice in Chains’ Them Bones, Tool’s Schism, and Weezer’s Island in the Sun. Find more of this robot’s creative videos on YouTube.

As we’ve seen before, freediver Kristina Makushenko has the amazing ability to dance underwater. The “Aqua Queen on Heels” recently performed an interpretation of Jenna Ortega’s captivating school dance from Wednesday at the bottom of a swimming pool. And no, it wasn’t filled with Goo Goo Muck.

Photographer Mathieu Stern recorded this captivating footage of choreographer and acrobat Yoann Bourgeois performing a routine where he climbs and repeatedly falls off of a staircase onto a trampoline. As he bounces back into the air, he gets back on the staircase to keep the cycle going.

If you’ve ever seen a grade school dance routine, you know how hard it is to get kids to move in sync. But these little girls have been taught not only how to dribble two basketballs without losing them, but to do it in perfect time with their classmates while performing a choreographed routine.

This clever video makes it look like a giant hand is manipulating the real world by making pinch, pan, and zoom gestures. This effect was created in-camera with the help of a precisely choreographed model and hand actor behind the camera. Though we’re not sure how he got the finger gun past the metal detector.

The last time we saw someone dance on a staircase, it was in Joker. While that was a memorable cinematic moment, Joaquin Phoenix has nothing on the moves of Tuzelity Shuffle, who showed off their impressive synchronized dancing skills on the stairs at an IKEA store.

During the 2022 Grammys, J Balvin and a crew of dancers brought down the house with a performance of the Skrillex collab In Da Ghetto. Choreographer Sadeck Waff shared this rehearsal footage which gives us a better look at the precision moves, and the impressive sequence that they staged in just two days.

As part of a promotional event, members of the U.S. Air Force Honor Guard strutted their stuff in New York’s Times Square. Among their routines was this impressively choreographed sequence in which a sergeant marches through a line of soldiers spinning and tossing bayonet-tipped rifles.

Kateryna Nikiforova is an expert at bounce juggling, a type of juggling that involves bouncing objects off of a hard surface. Here, she shows off her coordination and timing using a set of angled bounce surfaces. We love this color-embellished video of one of her routines too.