How to dance like rihanna
Can Rihanna Dance?
As the Caribbean Queen, Rihanna is from a part of the world known for creative dance moves. Does this mean the Birthday Cake singer can put on the moves?
Rihanna can dance and her main dance style is hip hop. Hip hop is derived from a dancing style that originated in Jamaica known as Jamaican dancehall. Her dancing capabilities have changed over the years as her career has become more and more successful. She has worked with choreographers and has even taken pole dancing lessons in the past.
You can read more below about Rihanna’s dancing skills, as well as how she learned to pole dance.
Rihanna’s Choreographers
It should come as no shock that Rihanna can dance. Afterall, she is from Barbados where dance is a heavy part of their culture. However, coming up with dance routines for music videos and world tours takes a lot of help. That help comes from choreographers. Rihanna has worked mainly with two choreographers throughout her career, Tanisha Scott and Parris Goebel.
Tanisha Scott is a Canadian choreographer who has worked with artists like Drake, Sean Paul and Beyoncé. Most notably, Scott did the choreography for Drake’s Hotline Bling. Although she has stated that Drake’s dancing in the music video is pretty much all Drake.
In a 2017 interview with The Kit, Tanisha Scott talked about what it is like to work with Rihanna as a choreographer. When asked which of her celeb clients is the quickest to pick up on choreography, she responded “Rihanna, because we know each other very well. I know how she moves, and she knows how I move. So our vibe is like a symmetry, so it’s easy.”
Parris Goebel is a New Zealand hip hop choreographer. She goes by the name Parri$ and has a dance troupe called The Royal family who are three time winners of the World Hip Hop Dance Championship competition. She has worked with artists like Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bieber, and Janet Jackson.
Most recently Parri$ worked with Rihanna on the choreography for her New York Fashion Week launch of Savage x Fenty.
The lingerie fashion show was attended by a huge number of A-listers and featured over 40 models of all walks of life.
Painful Shoot for Umbrella
In her 2007 music video for the song Umbrella, Rihanna had to deal with an immense amount of pain. She had decided that she wanted to do something different for the music video and the video’s director, Chris Appelbaum, got creative.
In the music video, Rihanna is seen on her tiptoes in ballet slippers. Chris Appelbaum recalled in this MTV Music interview that “somehow she learned how to do it, and I think that it was really painful for her. But I think she was really determined to make it work, and she just went for it.”
This was a big move as Rihanna has traditionally used the style of dancing known as Jamaican Dancehall in her music videos, as well as on stage. Riri also uses a lot of hiphop in her music videos which is derivative of Jamaican Dancehall.
Learning to Pole Dance
Other than her ventures with choreographers and inventive styles in her music videos, Rihanna has also learned how to pole dance.
In 2013, Rihanna took lessons from the pole dancer, Nicole Williams. She attended the lessons to prepare for the music video for her song Pour It Up.
Rihanna posted some photos of her learning how to pole dance to her Instagram. In this Instagram post, she said “My first pole lesson! #pouritup #bts”
You can watch the music video for Pour It Up by following the below YouTube link.
From dancehall and hip hop to pole dancing, one thing is clear, Rihanna has got the moves. She is not only a quick study in dance, but has the ability to pick up the basics of a diverse portfolio of styles.
Twerking vs. Whining, As Told By Rihanna – Lai Frances
Posted on by laifrances Posted in Music & Things, Tho(ugh)tsTagged blessed, Dance, Drake, music, Rihanna, Twerking, Whining, Work
You guys will probably think I have too much time on my hands after this read.
In which, I do.
It’s been a few weeks since Rihanna dropped “Work” and a week since the glorious seven minutes and 34-second music video by Director X and Tim Erem broke the internet.
With “Work” topping the Billboard charts, getting massive radio play, and constantly trending on social media, there is no denying that the track is one of the best releases of the year so far.
It’s one of those tracks where, once you hear the beginning of that ten-second intro, your ass immediately gets up anticipating the bad gyal’s demand for you to “work.”
But anyways, back to the point.
While reading the never-ending comments on YouTube, I noticed many netizens – or maybe even you too, rather – call “whining,” “twerking.”
However, for those of you who do not know, there IS a difference. And, excuse my language, the difference is all in the way your ass moves. And your hips too, of course.
Let’s take Rihanna’s “Pour It Up” music video, for example.
Closely deriving from the French region of Africa, Mental Floss says,
“The movements involved in twerking show similarities to several traditional West African dances, most notably mapouka, hailing from the Cote d’Ivoire. Known colloquially as ‘la dance du fessier,’ or ‘dance of the behind,’ mapouka is said to exist in two forms: A tamer, more traditional dance performed ceremonially, and the newer, more scandalous version popular with young Ivoirians.”
As you can tell from 1:04, modern day has taken the latter. Especially in western pop culture where it’s been highly exposed in hip-hop, reggae/dancehall and moombahton.
Yaaaas, Riri.In other words, twerking is pretty much your ass having a life of its own.
(If you want a better look, just watch Diplo’s “Express Yourself.” R.I.P, Nicky Da B.)
Now, on to whining. Let’s throw it back to young Riri with “Pon de Replay.”
In a post by SpiceIslander, the hip-swaying dance gets its roots from the islands of the Carribean:
“Whine is defined by a Caribbean dance expert as the thrusting or rotating of the pelvic girdle in a rhythmic pattern.
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In the context of Caribbean culture, whine is a genuine regional dance form.
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Unlike other genre of music that inspires the feet – such as “salsa’’, “kweyol’’ and “tango’’ – the dancing of soca music inspires the rhythmic movement of the waistline, more than any other body part.
Take whining as a graceful or aggressive gyration of the buttocks. Unlike twerking, whining relies more on the waist giving off a fluid movement.
You see what I’m saying?Closely tying to the act of grinding, from what I’ve seen, the dance has a stronger rhythmic connection whether dancing with a partner or not.
Also, you can even incorporate a bodyroll into it if you’d like.
Hopefully, by now, you get a gist of the differences between the two. The combination of both can be seen throughout the first half of “Work.”
And if you know how to do both dances and combine them all in one go, then Lawd bless you. You must be one gifted son of a gun because you might just be as bad as Riri.
Lawd have mercy on ya, Riri. #blessed
And just to clarify, I am no expert in dancing nor am I a professional dancer. I just know that when “Work” comes on, I’m lit like this guy.
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