Dancing in music videos

Skip to Content. The rise of MTV in the s made the music video perhaps the most powerful promotional device in the pop music armoury.

An impressive amount of artistry goes into making a great music video, and the choreography alone can take a good video and make it iconic. We've rounded up some of the best music video choreography from the last 10 years, both from famous pop stars like Lady Gaga and from indie artists like Blood Orange, and explored just what makes the dancing so compelling. Hopefully they'll inspire you to get out and shake it, or, you know, just jam out at your desk! The music video was choreographed by Frank Gatson and JaQuel Knight, mixing classic Bob Fosse moves with Southern J-setting, where one dancer does something and then the next person follows. This song became famous partly because it was used in an iPod Nano commercial, but the music video has long outlasted the ad's fame.

Dancing in music videos

Proving that she doesn't need anyone else in a music video except for herself, Swedish singer Robyn is the ultimate dancing icon in 'Call Your Girlfriend. Jungle have become synonymous with amazing dancing sequences in their music videos. Similar to Jungle, Australian singer Sia knows how to take a good idea for a music video and run with it. The choreography of 'Smooth Criminal' is so incredibly fascinating, it's difficult to look away during any of the nine minutes and 25 seconds of the music video. We've all got a favourite MJ dance sequence, and this is one of his best. Alright, so the dance moves and choreography in 'Lonely Boy' aren't as complicated as some of the other music videos on our list - but so what? It's a feel-good video that's totally infectious with easy-to-follow dance moves. We'd be lying if we said they weren't used while tearing up many a dance floor in our time. Have you ever felt emotionally attached to an inanimate object? Well, here's Britney and her dancing partner for 'Stronger', the chair who sometimes turns into an umbrella. The original, and the best. Little did we know that this would be the first of countless music videos from OK Go that would push the boundaries on how epic a music video can be.

The choreography references several pop cultur highlights, such as Audrey Hepburn's beatnik dance from Funny Face and the '80s warehouse dancing of Flashdance. Sincethe band have gone a more complicated route, featuring more bold colours, and more dogs. In the one continuous shot of "Hideaway," we see Kiesza dancing through the streets of Williamsburg, dancing in music videos, Brooklyn, and syncing up with different groups of dancers along the way.

Whether you prefer swaying around, grinding your hips, or mastering intricate routines, dancing along to a song—or even just watching someone dance along to a song—can reveal its true essence. In recent years, the accessible choreography of TikTok trends began usurping professional dance-based music videos, but those bite-sized steps lacked the intrigue to cement themselves in your mind the way so many classic music videos have done throughout history. Why are they dancing in an overgrown yard? And was Drag Race legend Katya Zamolodchikova on the moodboard for this scarlet-accented visual? The only reasonable answer is: padam. The choreography is deceptively simple, but when you hit it as hard as her backing crew does, the effect is mesmerizing. They bounce on their heels, cock their necks like ostriches, and swivel their shoulders as if their lives depend on it.

Last week saw the video release for Sia's barnstorming new single, Chandelier, featuring haunting choreography masterminded by Sia and Ryan Heffington, and performed by year-old Maddie Ziegler from the reality show, Dance Moms. Truly great choreography can elevate a music video to a work of art. Here are a few of our favourite examples — but what are we missing? Let us know in the thread below. Performed at a certain point of drunkenness at every Halloween party ever; Beat It is pretty good, but Thriller, er, beats it. Its influence can be seen in the also-amazing dance routine from Backstreet Boys' Everybody Backstreet's Back video. Feist is well known for a bit of a move and a shake in her videos — see her dancing on escalators in the promo for My Moon, My Man — but this colourful promo for is something else.

Dancing in music videos

An impressive amount of artistry goes into making a great music video, and the choreography alone can take a good video and make it iconic. We've rounded up some of the best music video choreography from the last 10 years, both from famous pop stars like Lady Gaga and from indie artists like Blood Orange, and explored just what makes the dancing so compelling. Hopefully they'll inspire you to get out and shake it, or, you know, just jam out at your desk! The music video was choreographed by Frank Gatson and JaQuel Knight, mixing classic Bob Fosse moves with Southern J-setting, where one dancer does something and then the next person follows.

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The title doesn't refer to the iconic fashion magazine but to voguing, the dance style that emerged in the New York during s and brought the trans community, African-Americans and Latinos together. The romantic partner work routine was choreographed by Nappytabs and directed by Emil Nava. Here, we revisit nine videos with iconic dance routines that changed the way people move. The monster claws and sexual synchronicity of the dancers all build the world for this music video, and create an aesthetic that is so profoundly Gaga that she is able to break free of the visual legacies of stars like Madonna who came before her. It's a feel-good video that's totally infectious with easy-to-follow dance moves. New Kids On The Block was the first groups within the modern boy band formula, and the music industry rushed to sign up more bands that followed with the same dynamic. Get the Daily Inside Scoop Right in your inbox. The song received pretty mixed critical reviews, but at least the dancing in the music video was dope. Their style evoked the classic breakdance but adopted the formula of a phenomenon that would later become a trend: the flash mob. The impassioned, feverish dancing of the children is technically impressive and emotionally moving, if somewhat perturbing. But then you saw the video to Lotus Flower — a clip directed by Garth Jennings and choreographed by Wayne McGregor , in which Thom Yorke donned a Charlie Chaplin bowler hat and boogied away without a hint of insecurity. Red Right Hand.

Music videos are always oh so fun.

The video was choreographed by Ljuba Castot and features variations on '80s style choreography like the running man while pulling its energy from the electro-pop beat. Michael Jackson — Thriller Missy Elliot blows the roof off with this music video. Eoghan Cannon 5 years ago. Think Black Swan set to the lyrics "let's have a toast to the douchebags" and that's what you get with Kanye's "Runaway" music video. The choreography is deceptively simple, but when you hit it as hard as her backing crew does, the effect is mesmerizing. Directed by Dutch filmmaker Emma Westenburg , the video features an all-female crew of dancers joyfully performing syncronised moves in a diner, a bedroom and on the beach. Latest Entertainment. Come , MTV were focusing on reality programming, and GIFs and memes had supplanted music videos as a driving force in youth culture. The routine is inspired by the J-Setting — a '70s dance by the majorettes of Mississippi's Jackson University that was later taken to the clubs by members of the African-American gay subculture. It also became a platform for daring choreography, introducing new dance styles that would reverberate through wider pop culture. We've rounded up some of the best music video choreography from the last 10 years, both from famous pop stars like Lady Gaga and from indie artists like Blood Orange, and explored just what makes the dancing so compelling.