Best Robot Dance Ever as
seen on So You Think You
Can Dance!
The robot is simply the illusion of being a robot. Movements of the robot are normally
started and finished with a dimestop (a very abrupt stop), to give the impression of
motors starting and stopping, but poppers have also been known to do the robot with
a pop to the beat. As long as the illusion of being a robot is maintained, it is considered
the robot.
Robot dancing is often considered a subsection of popping because poppers often
include the robot in their routines, sometimes adding pops to the beat while
maintaining the illusion of a robot, but the robot also exists as its own dance and is
sometimes considered a performance rather than a dance when the performer is
imitating a robot without any music. When done without music it is considered to be
mime, instead of dance. Street theater often featured mimes who did a mechanical
man or puppet style illusion, without music. In the late 1960s the style was used while
social dancing to funk or soul music. Charles "Robot" Washington was not the first to
strictly imitate a robot as a mime however, he and his partner "Robot Ann" was the
first to socially couple dance the style to music at parties and clubs, and it was at this
point it became a party dance and later combined with other illusion styles to form
todays popping style. The robot is one of the greatest Michael Jackson moves.
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