TV BUZZ: Robert Muraine’s pop-and-lock style of dancing has impressed everyone, even those of us who don’t normally watch So You Think You Can Dance. He’s practically inhuman! No matter how much yoga you do, you’ll never get to this point of flexibility.

The Best Links:

1. YouTube - Robert Muraine’s YouTube Channel
2. YouTube - Week 1- Robert Muraine on So You Think You Can Dance
3. YouTube - Robert Muraine Audition
4. OMG You Must See This Guy Dance
5. Some of the Best Dance Moves I’VE EVER SEEN
6. Thanks to Robert, SYTYCD Is Our New Favorite Reality Show (coming from someone who watches Fellini)
7. Finally, There’s Something Good on Cable
8. YouTube - Robert Muraine on 3rd St. Promenade

Gangsters don’t dance, they “c-walk”. Crip walking was big in the 90s before BuzzFeed even existed. It was started by mostly black gangsters in Compton, but these days the best C-Walkers seem to be suburban Asian kids on YouTube. And BIG UP to Michael Frumin who is my only friend who can actually c-walk.

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The Best Links:

1. Old School C-Walking From Compton
2. Crip Walking In London, England
3. How To C-Walk (Tutorial Video!)
4. Crip Walk on Wikipedia
5. How To C-Walk From The Kid With Millions of YouTube Views

CULTURE BUZZ: Big Boi from Outkast teams up with Atlanta Ballet choreographer for an innovative musical performance, debuting in Atlanta. Unfortunately, all the dates are in Atlanta, but maybe this will open the door for some more genre-defying mash-ups, like My Chemical Romance on Ice or the Flaming Lips Cirque du Soleil Explosion.

The Best Links:

1. Big Boi Teams Up with Esteemed Ballet Choreographer to Produce “big”
2. Preview of the Show from a Local Blogger
3. Watch an Audio Slideshow on NPR
4. The List of Talented Voices Involved Just Keeps Getting Bigger
5. The First Ever Hip Hop Ballet
6. Finally! Black Ballet Dancers
7. Watch a Video Sneak Peek

MUSIC BUZZ: The one-legged dance “craze” courtesy of Montreal’s hip-hop scene. This has the same kind of tongue-in-cheek quality as, say, wearing your clothes backwards. Or, it’s dead serious. It’s Canadian, and therefore hard to parse.

The Best Links:

1. Faire Le Tabarnak!
2. Le Tabarnak Homepage - Someone Wants This to Become the New Dance Craze Really Badly
3. On the Meaning and Origin of “Tabarnak”
4. I Live in Montreal and I’m Leaning Toward “No”
5. So It’s Not the Soulja Boy