If you have a boyish boy, reserved and not into dancing, where did they learn how to dabcecso that they could join in in school parties?

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Just that.

www.justdancenow.com

I feel very old

Laughing at the dabcesco!

At one school I taught at, in a very deprived ex-mining village, with few options for out of school activities, I was surprised to find it was the most challenging boys (behaviour-wise) who were miles ahead than everyone at dancing. They were very competent street dancers.

They didn’t have lessons and seemed to be watching YouTube videos. I think one very popular boy had taken to it, and they were all desperate to be like him. School discos were a lot of fun!

I have a very shy dyspraxic DS2. He and his brother had a party in the summer, so DH and I made ourselves scarce until about 10pm. When I came back, I saw this figure leap onto the dance floor and spring around really gracefully. It was DS2. They just do it once the music takes over.

OP you're massively over thinking this. I can have a bit of a tendency to helicopter parent, but it has never occurred to me to teach my boys to dance. One's always hated discos anyway, the other loves them but (I presume!) can't dance - I'm not really sure, I don't hang around the dance floor long enough to find out! He doesn't watch Tik Tok or YouTube or Fortnite though, so I don't know where he would have learnt. Doesn't seem to have cramped his style!

Why does any child need to know the moves to Agadoo!! 😂😂😂

I'm 42 and I don't know the moves to Agadoo. Is it just pointing in the air of something?

Funnily enough I find if I'm at a party (I'm beyond the disco/nightclub days!) and a song comes on that has "actions" then the people who don't know the moves learn by watching the people who do know the moves.

So where does your son go to learn these dance move? To places where people are dancing to these songs. Usually weddings, 50th birthday parties or 25th wedding anniversaries.

Goat, it's the same here from what I'm told. Link between bad behaviour and too much time spent on Youtube...?

Anyone else got agadoo as an earworm now

Havr you been to a school disco?
All he needs is the ability to withstand heat, shouting and a tenners worth of sugar consumed in 60 minutes.

They don’t really play “action” dance songs these days....do they?

@AJPTaylor and the ability to slide across the floor on his knees, sweat pouring of his incredibly gelled hair.

Don't the DJs do the moves with them, to show them?

Im thinking of that Macdonalds, Macdonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut song/dance now ...!

And yes, Fortnite / YouTube. Gangnam Style was a good one. My dyspraxic DS managed to pick it up without any trouble.

Havr you been to a school disco?
All he needs is the ability to withstand heat, shouting and a tenners worth of sugar consumed in 60 minutes.

This.

I don’t think they play agadoo anymore!

I think it is more likely to be the Macerena rather than the Agodoo these days, if you don't want to take him to Butlins or a family entertainment package style holiday then you could always use Youtube. If you do it and laugh he will likely join in the fun!

I spent my childhood dancing and at discos. I can Macarena with the best of them but never learn to agado

I dance all the time at home and out. I even make up dances when I do the dishes or hang the washing up or change a nappy, which my kids join in with. We have "dance parties" at home when they're a bit stir crazy and need to burn some energy off (most evenings while I cook the dinner). One of my children is a natural dancer and performer, one of them has two left feet, but we have fun and they always join in.

I used to go clubbing when I was younger with lads who couldn't dance. They mostly would take residence at the bar, jump and wave their arms about or just kind of sway when dancing with a partner. So I don't think everybody learns to dance.

And definitely not everybody learns to agado.

I have taught my 5 year old the important ones (Reach, 5,6,7,8 and Superman) but that's for our own amusement. At parties they seem to jump around instead of dancing.

Agadoo
Give your head a wobble OP, kids these days don't dance to agadoo!

The Macarena on the other hand...

DS1 did a school exchange in Nepal. The Nepalese pupils all did some traditional dances and then asked what the UK trad dances were. They ended up ding the Hokey Cokey and the Macarena!

The flipping Macarena is way out of date too! It has kitch appeal but it's a 90s song

I'm a teacher.

At my school and theirs they do do agadoo. And the macarena.

I have only read the beginning of the thread, will go and catch up in a minute but I was with him at the last school disco. They were really strict about the crazy running.

I felt like he would have joined in a bit more if he'd known what to actually do. Instead he just sat on my knee.

I went to reception rhyme time a couple of years back. At one point the teacher said they could dance and all the boys (and a lot of the girls) started flossing. I thought blimey, have all these kids been on Fortnite. Even mine was flossing, and he's never been on Fortnite, they just pick it up from friends.
My boy loves dancing. Sometimes we watch just dance on YouTube and all the kids dance along. But he seems to make up his own moves a lot.
A lot of action songs have the instructions in the lyrics. (take a jump to the left, and then a step to the riiiiight, put your hands on your hips.... - ok they don't do that one at primary)

He sat on your knee because you were there. He'd have gone off with a friend if you weren't. My son does the same

Forget agadoo

Superman is where its at