Michael Jackson Moves

As some of you may very well know, I have been taking a hip-hop dance class for the past few weeks. Now by no means am I good or do I even look like I know what I am doing, but it has been such a blast. I have always been a fan of hip-hop music and I love listening to the beat and making up moves in my head...mind you these moves are rarely translated into real-life. I took a jazz class in high school and I had to quit to devote more time to track.

I really missed being in a dance class and highly considered finding a class up a K-State, but never really took the plung. With my newly super free schedule, I figured this would be the best time if ever to try it. Once a week I go downtown to City in Motion which is nestled in between an abandoned building and antique shop open once a month. I have highly enjoyed just learning the mechanics of hip-hop and being able to understand all that goes into the illusion of dance.

Just last night I had the best class ever! A few people in the class are part of some kind of troupe. They have a performance next weekend and their routine is a mash-up of dances from Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT. It was absolutely amazing seeing the moves being played out in front of me. We learned a bit from "Smooth Criminal' and just a small part from "They Don't Care About Us." I posted the video to see the pure awesomeness that is Michael Jackson :)

"Smooth Criminal" The dance we learned started at 1:18-1:48 and the quick move from 2:24-2:29, 2:49-3:10 (one of my favorite parts...wiggle those legs :)



"They Don't Care About Us" This by far was my favorite part in the movie and I freaked out a little bit when I saw this part of the dance. Due to limited time we only learned a small portion of the dance. The part we learned started right at the beginning of the video with the leg lifts. Just about the first 15 seconds is what we learned. From then on out the dancers took off and did almost the whole dance move for move. AMAZING!!!