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New Dance Technique: TekTonik

Posted: February 19th, 2008 | Author: Moey | Filed under: Amman, Jordan, Music | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 40 Comments »

I just saw this on CNN, and it turned out to be 3 months old, It is a recently invented dance called TekTonik, they say it’ll be the next dance crazed for by teens to express themselves with their movements.

This is how it is:

Canal+ vidéo reportage en français:

My definition of Tektonic: A new style of underground dancing originating in France, combining popping and rave style on filthy and eletro beats, requires high energy and lots of arm movements and shuffling feet.

I’m planning to learn it since I already dutty wined.

My favorite video:

Care to start a cult in Amman?

40 Comments on “New Dance Technique: TekTonik”

  1. 1 AJ said at 2:20 AM on February 19th, 2008:

    to start a cult? :P when i get in shape…MAYBE :P
    i like it! it’s really nice..it’s like a softcore breakdancing with small bits of dancing styles of everything..

  2. 2 Moe Sam said at 3:44 AM on February 19th, 2008:

    Imagine a group of 20-30 people doing this shit, thats just stupid!!!
    Or imagine a whole dancefloor doing those weird moves hahahaah!

  3. 3 Batoul said at 4:42 AM on February 19th, 2008:

    mm.. I dont like it. It’s not smooth moves its chaotic ones that don’t pleasure the mind, infact may cause more stress nor they eye. It’s like ooo becareful, almost twisted an ankle there :S But anyway, say no more, cult. gets to Jordan pretty rapid. no worries lol

  4. 4 Sou said at 6:57 AM on February 19th, 2008:

    Adeemmaaaaaaaaa :p

    First time I saw the Tektonik was in the remix version of Yelle’s A Cause Des Garçons music video. I fell flat on my face the first time I tried to do it..seriously.

  5. 5 Ohoud said at 7:26 AM on February 19th, 2008:

    1st video: Dude, whats with the trousers??

    2nd and 3rd: I find no kind of creativity nor innovation in it. I really tried hard:D but seriously move around a bit more or some more techniques, it seems to have a lot of repetition in itself

  6. 6 amjad mahfouz said at 1:09 PM on February 19th, 2008:

    love it, really expressive and has potentials
    did u know that ballroom dancing has gotten really popular in Jordan ? :S

    thx for the share man

  7. 7 Ali MetalHead said at 6:39 PM on February 19th, 2008:

    cool dancing..in my dreams to even try it..since I’m quite the overweight guy!..lol

  8. 8 TAT said at 1:34 PM on February 20th, 2008:

    I can get the feet part down if I wanted thanks to learning the C-walk however never knew wtf to do with my hands

  9. 9 Maze said at 9:10 PM on February 20th, 2008:

    I LOOVEEEED IT! AMAZING MUSIC AND DANCE

  10. 10 Nizar said at 5:07 AM on February 21st, 2008:

    The music is good but the moves seem hard and take a lot of practice to perform, for me its not worth the time and effort it takes.

    I would rather learn how to make my self some good pasta than one of these moves.

  11. 11 Samer Marzouq said at 1:04 PM on February 23rd, 2008:

    coooooool

  12. 12 jackoo said at 4:21 PM on February 28th, 2008:

    where can i learn this??

  13. 13 MannyB said at 11:28 AM on April 4th, 2008:

    This is awesome. All abouts expressing freedom on the dance floor. great way to get fat tubs of lard off their couches to burn some of those and listen to some great house.

  14. 14 nunya said at 8:53 PM on April 16th, 2008:

    a lot of tektonik is what you could have seen 20+ years ago and all through the 90’s in a lot of places in the U.S….. nothing earth shatteringly new by any stretch. most of it came from Chicago and Detroit, and as house music became more popular everywhere else, people picked up on the moves. and no doubt it probably came from some other styles of dance before house music, too (what has been known as “jit” in Detroit is probably 50+ years old).

    there is nothing new under the sun, as the old saying goes.

    i think it’s cool, though….it’s inspired by old school with it’s own flavor. most of the tektonik dancers i’ve seen on Youtube look pretty good – the French are most definitely up on things, as usual when it comes to house music.

  15. 15 Moey said at 9:33 PM on April 16th, 2008:

    True Nunya, I agree.. the french are the best when it comes to house music!

  16. 16 Lils said at 7:05 PM on April 27th, 2008:

    TeKtonik is really famous in Belgium and in France… you can see people doing it everywhere, at every moment ! that’s really nice, even if i wouldn’t like to do it myself… and jumpstyle is really present as well =) that’s just a new fashion, as all the fashions before, it’ll be gone in a year…

  17. 17 Loren said at 9:35 PM on April 27th, 2008:

    It looks pretty cool, like others have said, French are the best when it comes to house.

  18. 18 Asrar said at 8:19 AM on April 30th, 2008:

    Seem you are all jaelous, you can’t dance tektonik that why you don’t like it!!!!

  19. 19 ghost said at 4:56 PM on June 20th, 2008:

    man i love tektonik….its all people do in europe its the besttttttttttt dance evaaaaaaaa but its really hard >_>…ive tried and i cant do it that well

  20. 20 confused said at 9:16 AM on June 24th, 2008:

    His name is Michael Jackson, he is actually pretty famous. I guess he might feel flattered to see people attempting to lift his stuff

  21. 21 zoey said at 5:44 AM on June 26th, 2008:

    if you like this stuff watch these people called jey jey and lektra.

    i think its real cool =P

  22. 22 med said at 2:54 PM on July 10th, 2008:

    viva tektomania
    i like it

  23. 23 med said at 2:54 PM on July 10th, 2008:

    goodddddddddddd i fell it with my movment nice

  24. 24 dudadeda said at 10:06 PM on July 12th, 2008:

    After watching Bokko(bokgo) dances on the WEB, these Tektonik moves look rather lame to me. It shows no dynamics of energy surging from dancers. Maybe the types of music(house/rave/eletric and etc) have such characteristics. No disrespect but the moves resemble a strugle of Octopus out the water.

  25. 25 Pan0S said at 3:30 PM on July 15th, 2008:

    hi…i am dancing electro & electro-teck its defrend from tektonik but they have to many similarities…spesialy electro-teck….electro few…4 months ago i started dancing tektonik…the hardest thing to learn is the details….finally after 4 months i can dance!!!!!the best official dancers of tektonik is : treaxy & vavan.u can learn from those!!!!

  26. 26 Gamzeee said at 3:03 PM on July 17th, 2008:

    OMG!! Tektonik.. is one style that gets me pumped!! listen to it befor i start ma day.. watch the clips i feel it running through ma system..

    SEXY MATE..

    Im High On This shiit :)

    LOVING IT HARD!!

    xo

    TREAXY IS A STUNNER YUMMMM AND VAVAN!!

    OMG TREAXY DANMMMMMM ;p

  27. 27 sanjit said at 8:37 AM on August 8th, 2008:

    dadatek rules

    mari serye net tektonik

  28. 28 ashna said at 10:31 AM on August 9th, 2008:

    wow! tektonik is simply too cool,i just love it.

  29. 29 Boudiche Sniper said at 9:08 PM on August 25th, 2008:

    Tektonik.. is the one style that can me crazy!! listen to it when i went to get some fun cause really it so danger..and when i watch any clips i feel that’s running through me and make me out system..

  30. 30 hitller said at 5:07 PM on September 27th, 2008:

    tare de tot continuati asa :P :P

  31. 31 Alex Cradock said at 10:17 PM on December 4th, 2008:

    i’ve actually known about this dance since it first came out and have been trying to perfect it ever since. i do it at every school dance and i always get a crowd of people. some of them think its cool but other just thinkit looks retarted. i like to dance like this and will probably do it for a long long time.
    ~AL

  32. 32 salem said at 8:06 PM on March 11th, 2009:

    lol it took me like 1 month to be able to dance tecktonik, it’s quite a cool dance, especially love the music.

    Vavan’s my tecktonik role model, haha, he’s freakin’ amazing!

    At first, I learned different moves from different people, then once i saw vavan, i started changing my teck dance style to his way of dancing.

    tck4life!!!

  33. 33 Moey said at 3:20 AM on March 12th, 2009:

    I know!!!!!

  34. 34 roro said at 10:26 PM on March 24th, 2009:

    je suis

  35. 35 roro said at 10:27 PM on March 24th, 2009:

    ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh le tektonik

  36. 36 beth said at 6:02 AM on April 2nd, 2009:

    this is great.,so cool.,

    I wanna learn this dance.,

    how can I learn this??

  37. 37 Joey said at 3:45 PM on April 2nd, 2009:

    its really a nice new dancing style and i want to learn it . really amazing

  38. 38 kmc said at 5:42 AM on April 24th, 2009:

    I absolutely love it.

  39. 39 ell- said at 6:26 PM on April 25th, 2009:

    I absolutely love this dance style. It is not easy but I am going to learn it!

  40. 40 miky said at 10:38 PM on May 1st, 2009:

    No legs u have to dance ,No breath u have to live, No life u have to or die and yet u can try those three .. I’m a dancer since five years and techtonik mean a lot for me (no dance no life ).

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