robot

The robot, also called mannequin or dancing machine, is a street dance style—often confused with popping—that suggests the stilted movements of a dancing robot or mannequin.
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The tradition

The robot, also called mannequin or dancing machine, is a street dance style—often confused with popping—that suggests the stilted movements of a dancing robot or mannequin. Roboting gained fame in the 1970s after Michael Jackson used the dance when he performed "Dancing Machine" with his brothers.

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Robot (dance)”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.

robot is illusionary street dance style that attempts to imitate a dancing robot or mannequin, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1

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Cite: “robot.” folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/robot — text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
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