Robot Dance Moves

The robot dance, also known as the mannequin dance style, is the dance style that imitates the dancing motion of robots. In late 1960s Charles Washington aka Charles Robot created this dance style, and then this dance style started gaining popularity. Today there are various robot moves, and this dance style is quite easy to learn. With patience and constant practice you can learn this dance form, and watch all the heads turn at you when you are dancing the robot.

How to do Robot Dance?

So, you want to learn how to dance? Practice these steps with dedication and see your limbs move like a robot.

• There are two types of robot dance forms, the conventional robot dance and the broken robot. In the conventional robot dance form, you just have to move each joint slowly, and keep shifting your moves to give the illusion of a robot dancing. The second is the broken robot dance, where you have to lock and break, which gives a feeling of a machine moving abruptly, vibrating a bit, and then finally breaking down where you maintain a broken down still pose.
• The first dance form is easier to learn than the second. Follow these basic moves till you get hang of the robotic motion and then include the robot dance like moves given below to enrich your dance style.
• You need a bit of imagination to kick start, so imagine a robot and start moving your limbs.
• To do this stand in front of a large mirror, and start moving each joint slowly and with an abrupt stop. Like move your wrist in down - abrupt stop, then move it middle - abrupt stop, at top - abrupt stop. This way work with your elbow, then shoulder. Then proceed to your neck left - stop, middle - stop, right - stop. This way bend your hips, rotate them and then try with combinations of hand and neck motions. This will take few days of practice, but if you do it slowly and continuously you can achieve the perfect motion.
• After you know how to move your upper body, similarly practice with your legs.
• To learn more about leg moves, practice slow walk with abrupt stops, stepping with each legs, rising your leg to your arms, etc.

Easy Moves

After you know how to move in the robotic motion dance style, here are few dance moves for you to practice.

The Moon Walk: One of the most famous dance moves, the moon walk takes a bit of practice, but when performed on the floor is an eye-catcher. For the moon walk you need to move your both feet and ankles in a smooth way, to give an illusion of moonwalking.

Arm Swaying Move: For the arm swaying move, stand still and start abrupt robot motion from your left wrist, then move your elbow shoulder and move the right side joints, and as you come to moving right wrist give an abrupt ease out motion. Keep practicing till you can perform this move swiftly and smoothly.

Arrested Robot Move: This in itself is a variation of the robot dance style. For this style you will have to arrest movements of various parts of your body, then shake them rapidly to give a feeling of breaking down. Then with a lock and release motion freeze, in a broken down posture.

The Arm Wave Move: This is one of the moves that uses the lock and release robot dance style. For this motion do a bit of arm and hip robot dance, then slouch a bit with by bending your hips and shoulders, hold your arm near your hip move it couple of times with up and down motions, then when it is at top, let go of the arm and let it sway in a pendulum like motion, and maintain the body frozen.

Inspiration & Music for Robot Dancing

To get inspiration watch videos online on robot dancing, there are some people who dance crazy (i mean awesome :D) robot dance. You can watch their videos to get inspired and catch some more dance moves. Another inspiring video that is a must watch is the Michael Jackson and Usher moonwalking video. So, play, pause, rewind, replay the videos and imitate the moves to learn better.

Here are some cool songs to practice robot dancing on:

• Genesis - Justice (try the track D.A.N.C.E also..)
• Technologic - Daft Punk (Robot Rock, Da Funk, Around the World are also good)
• Boys Noize - Erole Attack
• Yelle (Tepr Remix) - À Cause des Garçons
• Kids With Guns - Gorillaz
• Drop the Pressure - Mylo
• Kyur for Itch - Linkin Park

Now you know what to do to learn the robot dance and with the above dance moves you can make your dancing look more cool and unique. So, look at a couple of videos of cool dance moves, gather the inspiration, play the above tracks, wear loose clothes and start dancing the robot style, and enjoy!