Can’t dance? We’ll teach you the Floss (Article)
Emily Sargent
Can't dance? We'll teach you the Floss
Emily Sargent
Have you still not mastered the Dab? Then worry not. There is a new dance to show off. A dance that will make you look so very, very now. It's called the Floss. You might have seen children doing it, or at least being influenced by other people doing it on YouTube. Or you might have noticed it on Katy Perry's video for her single Swish Swish.
If you've seen it and didn't know what it was called, it's the one that involves a lot of fast and repetitive swinging of hips and arms.
It's also known as the Russell, after Russell Horning, the 15-year-old from Georgia in the US who invented it and sent it viral. Rihanna reposted a clip of him doing it and he has even done a turn on Saturday Night Live demonstrating the dance that, done with less grace and speed, could look like a demented skier.
Jaydon Blaze, a teacher at the Pineapple dance studio in London, taught me how to do it this week. The secret, he says, is to do it quickly, so that it looks mind-bogglingly tricky to the untrained eye. "It's actually quite easy," he adds. "Lots of people have been asking for a lesson here."
I can't say I found it that easy at first, but with a bit of practice I was able to speed it up enough to make it look like a genuine dancefloor party trick.
Get these seven moves down and it's just a case of making everything faster. A five-minute practice will really pay off.
1 Stand with feet shoulder-width apart. Reach both arms out to the right while pushing the hips to the left
2 Push your hips to the right between your arms (one either side of your body), as you swing your arms so that they are straight out and pointing left, one behind you
3 Move the arms right and hips back to the left again, so you return to position one
4 Keeping arms straight, swing them over to the left in front of you as you push your hips out to the right
5 Push your hips to the left between your arms (one either side of your body), and swing them so that they are straight out and pointing right, one behind you
6 Move the arms in front of your body and to the left and hips back again
7 Keeping arms straight, swing them over to the right in front of you as you push your hips out to the left and start again.
8 Speed everything up (at your own risk)
The trick- do it slowly, for a long time. Then start to speed up without stopping see how fast you can go, stop and try and go straight back to that speed again.
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