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Any particularly memorable dance moves from a NW video?

Here are a few to get things going:

Madness - One Step Beyond (Is there a name for that wacky dance? How about the "two-armed bandit choo-choo dance"?)

Billy Idol - Dancing with Myself (the dancing ghouls were kinda cool)

Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (David Byrne doing the "arm chop" - an image I can't seem to get out of my head... same as it ever was, same as it ever was)

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy (chock full of crazy moves, but gotta love those "crazy legged" bookends playing guitar; certainly good enough for the Ministry of Silly Walks; then again, I think they did that move in several of their videos, hmmm??)

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance (well... not sure it should qualify for a "best of" list, but maybe an honorable mention [;)])

I like Jim Kerr's take on New Wave Tai Chi in "Promised You a Miracle".

wackos "moonwalk" by a mile[:p]

Philip of www.screamingforemily.com Watch the DEITY video! nice shoes!

Any and all of Siouxsie & the Banshee's videos - I love how Siouxsie danced - especially in Spellbound and Wheels on Fire - she out-witches Stevie Nicks![:D]

The English Beat's Save it for Later - the beatnik girl with the swishing wrists dance - abso

[quote]Originally posted by Dave
[br]Any particularly memorable dance moves from a NW video?


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I always enjoyed that wacky guy who used to dance in the Howard Jones videos; painted white and draped with chains IIRC.

Does Chevy Chase's baloney dance in Vacation count?

I like the dancing of the New Romantics in Classix Nouveau's "Guilty" and Duran Duran's "Planet Earth".

That crazy-ass spastic dancing of Sinéad O'Connor in "Emperor's New Clothes" was pretty funny.

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<br>Any and all of Siouxsie & the Banshee's videos - I love how Siouxsie danced - especiall

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The guy "poppin" in Rod Stewart's Young Turks video...A dance move that does not fit the song but, manages to beautifully.

Every Technotronic video, easily.

spazz attack's forward flip and floor spasm in devo's "satisfaction."

hell, any dancers in devo videos. they always have some sort of strange choreography.

That reject that was sort of part of Happy Mondays, but never really did anything. Bez? I think.