How to Dance Like Rihanna

Rihanna is taking the music world by storm, and many wish to learn to dance as she does. Her style is fresh and, as Dance Central says, is full of "sexy, sassy hip hop dance moves with some serious booty action." Would you like to dance like Rihanna? Read on to learn how to dance like Rihanna.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

1. Work on your body. Your body needs to be in tip-top shape. Rihanna says that she does a lot of aerobics. This helps not only with being fit, but having endurance as well, handy for dancing for a long time.

2. Improve your flexibility by taking yoga and stretching every day. Rihanna's dance style is characterized by the smoothness of her movements, as well as her ability to move in a flexible manner.

3. Take dance lessons. Start with ballet for good posture, and learn enough of the style to incorporate it into your dancing.

4. Join a hip hop class so you can become familiar with the rhythms and beats, as well as the moves.

5. Watch Rihanna videos. You can find these at her site as well as other places online. You will see that her dancing style is not just hip hop but a mixture of ballet as well. Classical training was definitely part of her style as a dancer.

6. Start emulating the manner in which she dances. You can break down the dances move by move, then put them all together as you get better at each one. Soon, you'll be dancing like Rihanna.