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THE WAY YOU MOVE IS A MYSTERY

Posted 30th Oct 2007 by Millie Ross

Checked Vans shoes, fluo striped socks and manga-styled hair are the uniform for a new French teenager species : the Tecktonik dancer. Started a bit more than a year ago in a club in the Parisian suburb, La Tecktonik has spread everywhere thanks to videos on YouTube. Teams of wild dislocated kids are now taking by storm streets, subways, and commercial centres dancing like mad puppets under the spell of a stoned electro God in skinny pants. This cultural movement appears to be the suburban alternative to Parisian foppish rocker kids. It goes fast with an intriguing choreography of mimed gestures such as knotting a tie or combing hair on techno music beats. Weird. Meanwhile, old people in their early-20s are sneering, dubious.

WORDS BY PAULINE AUZOU

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léa - 30th Oct 2007, 07:10 PM

i agree with you : WEIRD ! and a little bit ridiculous....

a french ! - 22nd Feb 2008, 07:02 AM

You is jealous of french because is our dance !!!!! my blog is http://marcadu44.skyrock.com/ !!!! good bye

Ridge to \"a french\ - 11th Jun 2008, 07:06 AM

déjà apprend à parler anglais, and then just let people have their oppinion about tecktonik. i\'m french and i think this dance is dead ridiculous, but everybody has a different point of view

Van-Tango.skyblog.co - 14th Aug 2008, 01:08 AM

I dnt find it particulary disturbing, except the fact this dance became a real fashionable thing, but lots of people also dislike it. Anyway "a french" is right in his/her comment... that is just dance and you like it or not, there's no jealousy

leilea - 13th Sep 2008, 10:09 AM

the only dance that the french invented and it is suck tecktonik do not reprensent the most of the french teeneeger at the beginning when it wasnt really famous dancers were normale persons and didnt wear flachy clothes and the name was milkyway as soo

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