How to Become a Retro Dancer

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Zetta. And I'm Bliss, and we're at The Junkyard at Hollywood, Florida. Let's talk a little bit about how to become a retro dancer. Let's see. What is a retro dancer? What does that really mean? Think of the movie "Footloose". Okay, "Footloose", "Saturday Night Fever", "Grease". "High School Musical", kind of a little current. Yeah. You really want to go back. You want to try to go back to old school broadways, dance movies, like you said, "Grease", "Saturday Night Fever", those are all the type of dancing styles to become a retro dancer. It's just having fun and showing moves from the past. How to become a retro dancer, the best thing to do of course, is watch the movies. Watch the movies, have time to yourself, have fun in the mirror, and then another thing to do is go to nightclubs that have themed club nights. They'll have like the seventies or sixties style. You dress up and you basically just do moves from the past, the point. It's just about having fun and bringing back memories from the past. That's basically what a retro dancer does. You can also take dance classes, like jazz, Jazzercise, anything, aerobics even. They do retro dancing in aerobics. But to become a retro dancer, you can also do cover band backup. If you have a cover band at a night club, I know that you could do backup dancing for that, something really fun. Maybe they do certain styles. They do "Grease" and whatnot, so that's something. There's also go-go dancing, too. Go-go dancing, that's considered retro, a lot of that as well. The styles, like the way with their dresses. For some of them, they wear long socks. They kind of push you down, and where they have the shirt where it's cut from half to half and it's hanging out. You just create your own look with retro. You just got to be a little different. But basically, that is how to become a retro dancer."