80s Dance Moves

The Axel Rose

Hold on to a fake microphone stand and, with head lowered, move one leg out to the side, only about a foot off of the ground. As soon as your foot hits the ground, immediately repeat move with other leg. Repeat at least 10 times. As seen on "Sweet Child Of Mine" and other Guns & Roses late-eighties videos.

The Belinda

The dance is done by bending your arms at the elbows and moving them side to side while kind of snapping your fingers. Your lower body should be twisting slightly.

The Chinese Typewriter

Jumping side-to-side reversing toes-in, toes out.

Churnin' Butter

With your arms slightly bent out in front of you, make one fist on top of the other and move them around in circles like you are churning butter...

The Hammer Dance

By M.C. Hammer, he wore those baggy genie pants, keep legs wide apart, slightly bents, shuffle quickly one way, then the other.

The New Kids Dance

You start out with feet at arms length apart kick out your right foot and bring it back to the center, same thing with the left foot and then have both feet in the center.

The Prep

Very big in 1984, where you're center then step to the right with both feet, pointing up with palms flat and fingers together. Then back to the center pointing both of your hands downwards. Then to the left pointing your hands (palms flat, fingers together) up towards the left, then back. There are many variations to this dance going opposite of your partner reaching out like your mixing dominoes on the table when your centered, and so on.

Roger Rabbit

The Roger Rabbit is like the running man but you are doing it backwards.. Your arms are by your sides (or doing some funky move) and you take your right leg and sorta skip backwards once, and then your left leg you do the same thing, and then your right leg does it again but this time when your right leg goes back you sorta rock back and forth (right left right) note that when your right leg goes back your left leg is in front and vice versa!! You have to do it sorta robotically.

The Running Man

Also known as The Vanilla Ice, you take a step forward, then slide that foot back, immediately placing the next foot forward. Repeat while moving your bent arms forward and back (together). When done quickly, you'll look as though you're "running". If you want to get really fancy, you can pivot on one foot so that you're facing in the other direction and do it all over again.

Skywalk

This is a Michael Jackson move just like the Moonwalk except it makes you look as if your floating sideways across the air. Someone listed this move as the SideSlide on here...but the name for it is the Skywalk. Man, Michael Jackson sure is a Master of the Dance, isn't he?

The Spin

this move is seen in many of the michael jackson videos in the eighties and the nighties. the best way to do it is to cross your right leg across you left leg and spin counter clockwise. but wait!!! heres the trick to spinning as fast and as many turns as michael: YOU SPIN ON THE BALL OF YOUR FOOT FOR 180 DEGREES OF THE SPIN THEN YOU ROTATE FROM THE BALL OF YOUR FOOR TO THE HEAL OF YOUR FOOT!!! the only way to acheive this is to have on dress shoes or tennis shoes. but if you are in a smooth surface it doesn't really matter.

The Truffle Shuffle

This is the dance that Mouth makes Chunk do in The Goonies, before he lets Chunk into the house. Basically Chunk lifts his shirt to show his stomach, and then wiggles around and ripples his stomach while making funny sounds with his mouth and tongue.

Taken from here.

High School Musical 2

That's right. August 17. 8pm. I need to find someone in Norman who has the Disney channel but quick. Wal-Mart is releasing a 2-disc special edition of the soundtrack on August 14. Disney channel will rebroadcast the premier for the two days following, one of which will be a sing-along version. You know you're excited: who wants to see it with me??