How to Dance the Charleston

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  • Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
  • Learn how to dance the Charleston with Esie Mensah and David Forteau.
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Комментарии • 186

  • @A_Strawberry
    @A_Strawberry 4 года назад +773

    It's the 20's boys

    • @rexjolles
      @rexjolles 2 года назад +38

      Famous last words

    • @silverblood9456
      @silverblood9456 2 года назад +42

      @@rexjolles Expected a swing revival, got a pandemic and the great depression

    • @gatsbymaguire
      @gatsbymaguire 2 года назад +18

      @@silverblood9456 they forgot to start the pandemic in 2018 and that the depression doesn't start until the 2030s

    • @MC32595
      @MC32595 Год назад +3

      @@silverblood9456 right 😂😔

    • @CoolSkeleton95-go9fu
      @CoolSkeleton95-go9fu Год назад +3

      And soon the 20's will reference the 2020's, not the 1920's

  • @WarmthRainThunder
    @WarmthRainThunder 3 года назад +523

    Love this dance- I can do it until people start paying attention and I lose train of thought. Then my legs get out of sync 😭💀🤣

  • @BillDownhill
    @BillDownhill Год назад +92

    That dance move is literally 100 years old. Pretty wild seeing it incorporated into modern dance.

  • @JustCass945
    @JustCass945 9 месяцев назад +52

    My grandma likes telling stories about my great-grandma, who ran away from home to America in the VERY late 1800s (she was 16).
    She tells me that my great grandma LOVEDDDD dancing and singing, and how she was very beautiful. She says her favorite dance was the Charleston, so i would love to learn!
    Love you, Great Grandma Silvia!

  • @reneechavez2177
    @reneechavez2177 4 года назад +97

    So awesome to find Black folks dancing our dances!!♥️ sharing with my 300 plus students in Miami💦💯 🎩👑

    • @jefflh9200
      @jefflh9200 4 года назад +3

      renee chavez our?

    • @Donirexian
      @Donirexian 3 года назад +29

      @@jefflh9200 the dance was originally created by African Americans

    • @jefflh9200
      @jefflh9200 3 года назад +1

      @@Donirexian i know that

    • @projectc.j.j3310
      @projectc.j.j3310 2 года назад

      So weird to see black folks using technology that’s not theirs

    • @venuslove-i1v
      @venuslove-i1v 2 года назад +15

      @@jefflh9200 The person said "our" because they themselves are more than likely black.

  • @You-lw7cn
    @You-lw7cn 2 года назад +95

    Thanks!
    I have to come up with choreography for a class I'm taking and my group decided we wanted a tiny bit of the charleston dance in there and most of us didn't know how to do it
    This was so short and simple and now we can carry on with our choreography!

  • @kimmorris9664
    @kimmorris9664 6 месяцев назад +12

    Figured out how to do the dance because of this, it’s the 20’s now buster!

  • @eggy7346
    @eggy7346 11 месяцев назад +8

    I stumbled upon a version of the Charleston on an Instagram reel and oddly enough, it got me interested in learning how to dance
    There's a Halloween party coming up in my city and I wanna let loose for once instead of sitting at the bar with my friends like last year

  • @valm3809
    @valm3809 3 дня назад

    I have so much admiration for professional dancers they’re a delight to watch

  • @VictoriaEPines
    @VictoriaEPines Год назад +18

    Yessssss🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 rehearsing for Godspell and wanted to learn how to Charleston to “Bless the Lord” (the ending). Thank you soooo much!!!! This was excellent teaching!!!!

  • @LathyrusRoots
    @LathyrusRoots 2 года назад +16

    i've never been interested in dance at all. i can waltz, which i think is 'installed' by default.
    this two minutes started a tempo, then built it to completion with expert instruction in such a pleasant way, so smoooothly i just...
    wow, that was cool. and? i can totes do the Charleston.

  • @FLeigh12
    @FLeigh12 4 месяца назад +2

    Well. If that wasn't the dopest, coolest, swaggest lil presentation.! Nicholas Brothers at the end. LOVED ❤

  • @fearlesssfcappuccino
    @fearlesssfcappuccino 4 года назад +161

    Love it. Simple, short, clear, lovely vid; thank you for making this!!

  • @Starlight_16
    @Starlight_16 3 года назад +7

    They are great dancers, and she is so beautiful!!

  • @davidalen9279
    @davidalen9279 4 года назад +83

    Love the period costuming. Thank you for sharing!

    • @LightYagami-xl1wz
      @LightYagami-xl1wz Год назад +2

      It’s not even historically accurate AT ALL. Why is she wearing an afro in the 1920’s? That didn’t come until 50 years later!

    • @marvin4239
      @marvin4239 Год назад +9

      @@LightYagami-xl1wz This is why girls won't dance with you

    • @dolphinman9896
      @dolphinman9896 4 месяца назад

      @@LightYagami-xl1wz that's her natural hair, it always existed? 💀

  • @zvipatent
    @zvipatent Год назад +5

    Mom taught me this. Didn't get much chance ot do it at dances, etc., but like to do it at home. BTW, these folks are great !

  • @na-yo2ji
    @na-yo2ji 4 года назад +27

    For the 1920s making a comeback in 2020, I am going to learn at least one 1920s dance move

    • @jackphantom
      @jackphantom 4 года назад +5

      Art Deco revival would be nice as well

  • @LaineyBug2020
    @LaineyBug2020 2 года назад +7

    Damn, your skin is absolutely flawless! Such a beautiful color!

  • @MelancholicFools
    @MelancholicFools 3 года назад +16

    She has a great voice, she should do voice overa

  • @loua5269
    @loua5269 3 года назад +47

    you made it look so easy - thank you for doing this!!! for a short video, i learned a lot.

  • @zalamael
    @zalamael 11 месяцев назад +1

    Interracial couple dancing to the Charleston, we need more of this in society, it would put an end to the usual racism conflict narrative.

    • @dnrspdr03canadian95
      @dnrspdr03canadian95 5 месяцев назад

      First off they're not interracial, they're both African American. Secondly Hollywood is doing exactly what you just said and it's backfiring big time, it's only made racism go up if you ask me.

  • @lizzwalker7417
    @lizzwalker7417 Год назад +1

    Listen, I just started taking tap classes, and my group is already preparing for a recital 🥴. Why have I always been able to do the Charleston when I'm playing around or just dancing for fun, but the minute I put on tap shoes and see that it's part of the dance routine my legs and feet don't work? I'm really struggling🤣, but I'm glad I found this video. Yall did a great job teaching the steps. Imma properly squish those bugs in no time!

  • @abyssGazerTV
    @abyssGazerTV Год назад +1

    I can't believe people did something this complex for fun back in the day.

  • @SproutCosplays05
    @SproutCosplays05 Год назад +3

    I’m just learning it for a miku dance heh

  • @alexandrae430
    @alexandrae430 Год назад +3

    I appreciate the history lesson!! Also this was the best description! Feeling more confident with this move 😌

  • @Ticklebrush
    @Ticklebrush 3 года назад +6

    ok shes gorgeous woah

    • @daisymay6505
      @daisymay6505 3 года назад +2

      Agreed, she’s REALLY beautiful 😍❤️

  • @rpaterson6784
    @rpaterson6784 2 года назад +6

    Oof, i’m so bad at dancing but I’ve always wanted to learn this one, I think I need a broken down board. It was fun to try tho. The second I start twisting my brain is like no

    • @Cairybow
      @Cairybow 5 месяцев назад +1

      i get you 😭 all these comments are like "wow this qas so helpful thank you" but i cant figure it out

    • @EradicatorX
      @EradicatorX 3 месяца назад

      same

  • @trevosh15
    @trevosh15 Год назад +2

    It's the 20s, which means it's time to bring back the charleston

  • @shortstupidmagicfilms9574
    @shortstupidmagicfilms9574 Год назад +4

    Amazing! Thanks for this straight forward tutorial. I'm using this for a commercial acting audition 😅

  • @AnHero0624
    @AnHero0624 2 месяца назад

    Not me watching this video while eating a Charleston chew and showing my bf how to dance. I love this era in history.

  • @katlee3036
    @katlee3036 5 лет назад +35

    *A* *N* *K* *L* *E* break

  • @Zuri_the_elfWCUE
    @Zuri_the_elfWCUE 2 года назад +1

    Is nobody talking about how PRETTY she is?

  • @MsLemon42
    @MsLemon42 6 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks! I'm going to try to get the other social studies teacher to do a dance with me at the next school talent show haha

  • @solet579
    @solet579 3 года назад +8

    Estupenda explicació! Senzilla, clara, divertida!

  • @thelibertymomma8304
    @thelibertymomma8304 9 месяцев назад +1

    thank you, very helpful for a history presentation! love the outfits, really fits the style back then

  • @AntonDogg
    @AntonDogg Год назад +2

    Excellent!! Great dancers, both of you!

  • @BooDotBoo
    @BooDotBoo 2 месяца назад

    I actually really love this dance. People think I’m crazy doing it and this is why I don’t go to clubs. 😂

  • @Spamkromite
    @Spamkromite Месяц назад

    Amazing, I'm trying to study this dance to make a 3D character dance it and this video has helped me with the essentials and the rest of the stylish freedom this dance gives you :)

  • @AwesomeDude799
    @AwesomeDude799 2 года назад +4

    *I'm afraid I haven't been a very good Host, Old Sport.*

  • @zeraghtul6834
    @zeraghtul6834 4 месяца назад

    This is my favorite dance, I look forward to practicing it.

  • @Darkanight
    @Darkanight Год назад

    I love this video... I always find myself coming back here from time to time.

  • @LilXancheX
    @LilXancheX 5 месяцев назад +1

    This is like shuffling in the 60’s 😂

    • @Cairybow
      @Cairybow 5 месяцев назад

      Almost, its the 1920s actually 😋

  • @NoCommentaryLife
    @NoCommentaryLife 2 года назад +2

    Holy. This is so short but the best tutorial

  • @LyrenaWithAnxiety
    @LyrenaWithAnxiety Месяц назад

    Step one: okay, yeah, I got it
    Step two: both legs are broken, tied in a knot

  • @longWriter
    @longWriter Год назад +2

    It's simpler than I'd thought---for years, I'd thought that the dance step where you're touching your hands with your thighs and having your hands trade places when your knees touch was the Charleston...I guess I wasn't *exactly* wrong, but I wasn't exactly right, either!

  • @vdubing01
    @vdubing01 2 месяца назад

    Yall look so good doing it too!!!! 😊

  • @Silverwish30
    @Silverwish30 8 месяцев назад +1

    So how do I explain that I’m here because of an animated dancing cat…

  • @crazyleaf257
    @crazyleaf257 Год назад

    Love the visuals and graphics!!

  • @BlackCat-pm9qr
    @BlackCat-pm9qr 6 месяцев назад +1

    This song epitomizes what people today want to think the 1920s was like. The truth is that this song and dance was a minor craze in 1925 and was viewed by the majority of people as an amusing novelty at best and vulgar and low class at worst. Most people preferred waltzes and fox-trots. If you want to hear what normal 1920s music sounded like listen to the Colonial Club Orchestra, Regent Club Orchestra on the Brunswick label or The Troubadours or Nat Shilkret on Victor. The real 1920s sound was romantic, heavy on strings with vocals by tenors but I know that isn't what people today want to hear.... since they are obsessed with hot jazz and race music and then project their preferences on the past.

  • @lindybeige
    @lindybeige 5 лет назад +32

    If it was invented in Charleston, how come the first time its originator danced it, it was 'on Broadway'? For a lesson in how to dance to period music, it would have been nice to have used some period music instead of this modern thuddy stuff.

    • @fortunatejeremy
      @fortunatejeremy 4 года назад +2

      Lol after watching so many of your videos I'm not surprised you're a nit-picker about about period dances.

    • @user-ih6vs3eg3o
      @user-ih6vs3eg3o 4 года назад +1

      I know right and as someone who takes great interest in the period his white tie and tails are all over the place

    • @geekchic8495
      @geekchic8495 3 года назад +3

      Because he invented it WHILE IN Charleston, but just performed it in front of people for the first time on Broadway. It's not rocket science 🙄🤣.

    • @geekchic8495
      @geekchic8495 3 года назад +5

      Oh, and this "modern thuddy stuff" still has musical elements of the 1920s. Loosen up a little.

    • @useyournogos6845
      @useyournogos6845 3 года назад

      I kinda agree though, the original music would have been better

  • @maidinthamiddle
    @maidinthamiddle 3 месяца назад

    You both are so beautiful! I'm a sandlapper for life. Love it!

  • @hogskins3043
    @hogskins3043 2 месяца назад

    I wanted to learn the Charleston after watching the cast do the dance on Family Matters.

  • @stevenkoehler6018
    @stevenkoehler6018 Месяц назад

    Please-More Charleston videos!!!

  • @thesmilingknight4982
    @thesmilingknight4982 9 месяцев назад

    thanks so much for a wonderful easy following tutorial ^^ just gotta train a bit more then i have it

  • @leverdia
    @leverdia Год назад

    Attractive, Talented dancers...thank you for the tutorial

  • @truepenny2514
    @truepenny2514 6 месяцев назад

    I’d love to learn this - it looks so free and fun -

  • @jonathanguillarme3118
    @jonathanguillarme3118 3 года назад +2

    Thank you for this outstanding video

  • @tomriska4148
    @tomriska4148 2 года назад +1

    Excellent, but, with two replacement joints I'll sit and admire those (like YOURSELVES) who can hoof it. Thank you! BTW...I was a fairly decent dancer until about 7 years ago (okay, on three, everyone cry for me.....lol.) BTW, I could've done his last move easily....then.... no more kids for me.

  • @morbid6six6
    @morbid6six6 3 года назад +3

    I see it, I understand it. But, I don’t know that I can accomplish it lol

  • @tonks78
    @tonks78 Месяц назад

    You're amazing! ❤❤😊

  • @Gatorbitten
    @Gatorbitten 7 месяцев назад

    I remember this, learning this in school.

  • @anthonywomack2260
    @anthonywomack2260 Год назад +1

    The Rock brought me here 😂😂

  • @rileybear836
    @rileybear836 11 месяцев назад

    I can’t dance, so I’d be useless in the 20s but god I love watching people with rhythm just go go go

  • @delenamiller5948
    @delenamiller5948 2 года назад

    Beautiful couple, very classy- and helpful!

  • @hpb8859
    @hpb8859 4 года назад +3

    Thank you

  • @DragonXDrei
    @DragonXDrei 5 месяцев назад +1

    And now they call it The Shuffle, and people think i's new.

  • @stephenhaynie1039
    @stephenhaynie1039 3 года назад +1

    this taught me so maNy inspirational things ik how to dance know

  • @f.m.r.1437
    @f.m.r.1437 3 года назад +1

    Beautiful people and so talented. Blacks all seem to know how to dance the night away. Good for them.

  • @bezoticallyyours83
    @bezoticallyyours83 7 месяцев назад

    Elegant and energetic.

  • @21neuroticelle
    @21neuroticelle Год назад

    im doing my schools production of anything goes and this helps a lot

  • @virgilycumbias
    @virgilycumbias 3 года назад +1

    Nice lessons for the begginers. Congrats

  • @buddyfett1341
    @buddyfett1341 Год назад

    You guys are awesome. Have a Great Gatsby themed party tomorrow night. Looking up 20s moves.

  • @leonarduchamp
    @leonarduchamp 2 месяца назад

    fabulous!

  • @DanMehmet-yy1ly
    @DanMehmet-yy1ly 4 месяца назад

    People on tik tok calling this astro slide lmao. As a Bboy we were always told to learn the history of the styles

  • @JQUICK21
    @JQUICK21 2 года назад +2

    Swinging the arms makes it look old and 40’s-ish….I’ll leave my hands down or do something cool’er with them….but thanks ❤️

  • @baeber
    @baeber Месяц назад

    moist critikal actually made this dance back in the 1920s my source trust me I was there

  • @michaelmartin4079
    @michaelmartin4079 2 года назад

    wow... ya'll are good dancers. Keep it up.

  • @edward002gaming
    @edward002gaming Год назад

    You meen ive been doing the Charleston this whole time without noticing it

  • @InsideEquestrian
    @InsideEquestrian 2 года назад +1

    Does anyone know the name of the song in the beginning?

  • @melandjon2
    @melandjon2 Год назад

    Kid n Play! AKA Charleston. 😊❤

  • @PunditKING
    @PunditKING 9 месяцев назад

    You'll look great doing the Charlestown, try it.

  • @pup2006
    @pup2006 2 года назад

    i love this so much omg

  • @lmay007
    @lmay007 5 месяцев назад +2

    I love that you danced the Charleston😄

  • @c1plas
    @c1plas 2 года назад +1

    Now the kids are calling it the Cat.

  • @marcelzeigler631
    @marcelzeigler631 Год назад

    She’s gorg

  • @thedarksideoftheforce6658
    @thedarksideoftheforce6658 Год назад

    This is basically the kid n play kick step.

  • @vellbariaofficial
    @vellbariaofficial Год назад

    Kidsongs got me learn this dance

  • @w7b9
    @w7b9 9 месяцев назад

    I have to do this for an academic grade

  • @veronicabullard2694
    @veronicabullard2694 3 года назад +1

    Thanks guys. That was super cute.

  • @santosalonzo123
    @santosalonzo123 Год назад

    Ya'll are awesome!!!👏😁😉

  • @James-pb9js
    @James-pb9js 2 года назад

    Black is beautiful. Know where it started

  • @tonyclifton265
    @tonyclifton265 10 месяцев назад

    wush i had learned to dance the charleston when i was 18. i'm 52 now and never could dance

  • @sophiegomulkiewicz790
    @sophiegomulkiewicz790 Год назад

    Cool thanks!!!

  • @KidAstronaut
    @KidAstronaut 7 месяцев назад

    BLACK PEOPLE!!!! I was looking for the history of the dance and thats the first thing ya'll said. INSTANTLY almost shed a tear. Thank you!!!!

  • @toxicbenjy
    @toxicbenjy 3 года назад +2

    who hear during corona

  • @makinbacongreasyagain968
    @makinbacongreasyagain968 4 года назад +1

    What’s the dance where the woman keeps her feet together and shuffles them real fast a couple times to each side of the man? Thought it was part of the Charleston

  • @artshorts2116
    @artshorts2116 4 года назад +5

    Wow this is had

  • @ic236
    @ic236 Год назад

    Theres so much twisting what are the chances I sprain my ankle again haha

  • @jameswilson3370
    @jameswilson3370 10 месяцев назад

    Omg thank you

  • @creoleking206
    @creoleking206 8 месяцев назад

    I never knew the Charleston was the geechee dance, well they forgot the leg loop me and my bro did