New Dance Craze

[franceslievens]

Today's open house at school has shown me that immitating R&B-videos for their stage numbers is completely passé for contemporary primary school kids. The boys' regular breakdance routines got put aside even. Nowadays they all want to dance tektonik.

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[comava.livejournal.com]

I was ready to mention how that could only be an upgrade... but then I watched a few videos and I'm sort of at loss for words. Sometimes it looks good and sometimes it just looks silly. I wonder whether that craze has caught on here already.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

It's the same for the kids: sometimes it looks good and sometimes I get 8yos waving their arms about in class and looking at me like I've asked them to get naked when I've politely mentioned that's no way to behave in class.

Tektonik came from France and is a craze for French-speaking kids and teens. I read about it in the paper some weeks or months ago -- then it was danced by teens in the streets of Brussels. Usualy they dance to the music on their mp3-players btw, so it's rather strange to look at for bystanders.
Now primary school kids have found out about it and want to do it as well. Some groups were rather good, because they'd practiced very long to synchronise their moves and that looked cool.

I must admit that the kiddos were better doing their breakdance routines. Small kids have an advantage doing all those jumps and flips etc.