Awesome Dancing

Malaysian dance group Budayawan shows off a traditional dance from Borneo’s Murut people and their headhunting warriors. Known as Magunatip, the dance requires incredible skill and timing from both the blindfolded dancer and his teammates as they rapidly move bamboo poles beneath his feet. Video by MySabah.com.

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.

A good work-life balance is essential for all of us. Apparently, the same holds true for robots. In this short video from Boston Dynamics, their talented ATLAS bipedal robot takes a break from working to show off its dance moves. We’re waiting for the robo-supervisor to come out and tell ATLAS to get back to work.

Dancer Sandip Brahamin won Romania’s Got Talent’s originality prize for good reason. His dance style is unlike anything we’ve ever seen. His trademark move looks like something from a stop-motion animation as he spins his feet in a circle and shakes his head back and forth like a wind-up toy on speed.

This talented performer shows off his multitasking skills by simultaneously playing his acoustic guitar while tap dancing.  His unconventional flamenco performance has him strumming the fretboard while holding the guitar upright. Also, this man has some crazy long fingers.

Choreographer Sadeck Waff is known for his amazing synchronized tutting routines. Sadeck and the dance team Mega Unity performed this mind-blowing sequence for the 2021 finale of La France A Un Incroyable Talent. The performance starts at the 9:42 mark with the real magic happening in the top-down view. Here’s another amazing work by Sadeck.

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.

This performer shows off a traditional Middle Eastern dance that incorporates fire. But the dancer isn’t juggling or carrying flames; she’s wearing them along the hemline of her dress, creating a terrifying ring of fire as she spins. We sure hope the upper part of the dress is fireproof. There’s a similar fire dancing tradition in India.

Dancer Stephane Deheselle, aka “S,” shows off his insane flexibility in this performance from the 2016 I Love This Dance All-Star Game. After starting with his back to the camera, his robotic moves gradually transformed into smooth, organic ones that made us imagine he was some kind of strange bird from another planet.

A while back, Fletcher from Everything Is Hacked came up with a way to control a computer with his face with your face. Now he’s created an input method to get his cardiovascular system going. He used a computer vision algorithm to detect the positions of his arms and legs to type letters and numbers using semaphore.

French filmmaker Remi Molettee is known for their wildly inventive generative digital art. In the AI-enabled short film, Symbiosis, Remi transformed dancers the Ebinum Brothers into living, moving tree roots. As their bodies move and intertwine, they appear as wooden surrogates for blood vessels and veins.

Eclectic Method is known for his creative music remixes and video edits. Now, he’s started to experiment with AI-generated imagery. In this animated music video, you’ll spot scenes from films like Saturday Night Fever, Dirty Dancing, Pulp Fiction, and Footloose, only with digitally-created characters performing the choreography.

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.

(PG-13: Gore) A thousand years from now, civilization has fallen, and chaos rules the wasteland. Fortunately, there’s one way out of the HOT FUTURE – epic dance moves. This bonkers 3-part animated series comes to us courtesy of Mike Anderson and Ryan Dickie for Adult Swim SMALLS.

Recently, NERF revealed its new mascot, Murph. This goofball kind of looks like a walking Koosh ball because their hairy body is made up of hundreds of NERF darts. They look pretty awesome just standing still, but the real magic comes when Murph gets their groove on. Follow Murph’s adventures on the NERF TikTok channel.