What is Halloween week without Thriller? I mean really! I can’t NOT do it. I only bring it out once/year and only for a handful of classes and it would seem almost criminal to not to the most iconic Halloween song of my generation.
Because I’m a super nerd, I know the entire Thriller dance from the music video but that is much too complicated and involved for teaching in Zumba, so I’ve created this routine which simplifies it down to around 6 moves.
Because it’s a longer song and the moves don’t follow the Zumba formula I generally take 2-3 minutes to go over all 6 moves before I start the song so everyone has an idea of what is about to go down. 😉 This is also the only regular Zumba song where I will verbally cue now and then to tell people what is coming next. Every time I’ve done it I’ve been really impressed with all my participants – in fact this week I taught it to my after school program kids (mostly grade 4’s) and they were great!
Unlike the other routines I shard this week, this one does take a fair amount of musical memorization, but as long as you know the basic moves it’s easy to tell when the chorus is coming up and otherwise you just repeat as you need.
The video is pretty laughable, you seem much less insane when doing these types of things with other people around you. Or at least I like to think you do. 😉
If you give it a try let me know how it goes!
You are awesome. I bet the grade fours loved this!
“…you seem much less insane when doing these types of things with other people around you. Or at least I like to think you do.”
Hilarious!
I love it!
hahaha, thanks! I swear it’s true though…when others are indulging you in your insanity, you feel much more normal 😉
Of course!
This is where the term enabler originates! 😀
Hee hee! Happy Halloween!