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<div>Hi all, </div><div>this morning, the Dutch newspaper NRC Next featured an article about dancing & YouTube, and how dance trends often spread through online video. </div><div>"Bizarre dansjes verspreiden zich het snelst via internet" , by Marten Mantel (NRC Next 19-05-2008, p 30).</div><div>I've made a short summary of the new online dance trends (according to NRC Next) and included some links.</div><div>Ciao, Sabine</div><div><br></div><div>Soulja Boy Dance</div><div>Soulja boy is a 16 year old amateur rapper from the US, who published his sng Crank Dat online in April 2007. His moves caused a stream of video responses with parodies, imitations and mash-ups (including one with Pooh dancing the Soulja Boy) and the boy had scored a number one hit.</div><div>Crank Dat (original version): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pGJCkCDK5A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pGJCkCDK5A</a></div><div>Pooh version: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316BF17k5d8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316BF17k5d8</a></div><div>Soulja Boy Ballet: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1whKQBcnLiQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1whKQBcnLiQ</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Tecktonik</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">Frensh electrosinger Yelle became famous because of her music video A Cause des Garçons (Tepr Remix), which featured a new dance stye from the banlieus in Paris called Tecktonik.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">Link to the music video of A Cause des Garçons: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=bytf3gZMFkY">http://youtube.com/watch?v=bytf3gZMFkY</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">And this is the most viewed Tecktonic video on YouTube (boy dancing tecktonic in a garage): <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZkGum1YYkGk">http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZkGum1YYkGk</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Salmon Dance</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">The Chemical Brother launched the Salmon Dance last year, not by dancing it, but by giving instructions in the Salmon Dance Song: „Put your hands to the side, as silly as it seems, and shake your body like a salmon floating up stream”. They invited people to upload their versions of the Salmon Dance to YouTube, but of course loads of fans had already done that.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">Video of a boy trying the salmon dance: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A105F5mjTG8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A105F5mjTG8</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">Tabarnak</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">'Le Tabarnak' is a dance from the rap band Les200 from the French Canadian hiphop scene in Montreal. It supposedly is danced in clubs in Canada. The dance is simple: just keep one of your feet off the floor for the full duration of the song and don't forget to dance.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">Le Tebarnak: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWJxfqZ4D3E">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWJxfqZ4D3E</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Rolex Sweep</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">The most recent example of a 'song that comes with new moves' has been spotted in the London crime scene. Rappers/producers Wiley and Skepta have thought up the Rolex Sweep, as moves to Wiley’s new single 'Wearing My Rolex'.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">It goes something like this: pretend to fill a glass with champagne, and then wave your arm around so everybody can see your Rolex. Wiley and Skepta have recorded an instruction video (more like a rap song with slide show), in which they explain the moves and rap: „Soulja Boy can’t dance like me, Michael Jackson can’t dance like me”. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">The original Rolex Sweep (starts at 3'35"): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_WVO0GCGcw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_WVO0GCGcw</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">The Rolex Sweep tutorial: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV0K0nf4ac8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV0K0nf4ac8</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">Girls dancing the Rolex Sweep: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUmkh4ghhSw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUmkh4ghhSw</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">The full article, titled "Bizarre dansjes verspreiden zich het snelst via internet", by Marten Mantel , can be found here (in Dutch): <a href="http://www.nrcnext.nl/uitenthuis/article1091817.ece">http://www.nrcnext.nl/uitenthuis/article1091817.ece</a>. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div></body></html>