chicken dance
Wedding reception ritual
The chicken dance is a novelty line dance performed to a polka tune, featuring arm movements mimicking a chicken's beak, wings, and tail feathers.
A staple of wedding receptions, school events, and Oktoberfest celebrations, it requires no skill and exists mainly to get reluctant dancers on the floor: They played the chicken dance and suddenly everyone was flapping their arms.
Bouncy partnered folk step
- hoedownLively rural dance gathering
- wedding receptionCelebration following a marriage
- accordionBellows-driven reed instrument
- oom-pahRepetitive brass rhythm
flapping · wings · beak · clucking · feathers · choreography · steps · celebration
Copy of the original
- mockeryScornful ridicule or travesty
- sillinessFrivolous, absurd behavior
- absurdityWildly illogical quality
- comedyWork meant to amuse
aping · caricature · buffoonery · antics · foolishness · pantomime · clowning · goofiness
polka
Bouncy partnered folk step
- hoedownLively rural dance gathering
- wedding receptionCelebration following a marriage
- accordionBellows-driven reed instrument
oom-pah · flapping · wings · beak · clucking · feathers · choreography · steps · celebration · festival
imitation
Copy of the original
- mockeryScornful ridicule or travesty
- sillinessFrivolous, absurd behavior
- absurdityWildly illogical quality
comedy · aping · caricature · buffoonery · antics · foolishness · pantomime · clowning · goofiness · hamming
- group dancesconga line, hora, ceilidh, cha-cha slide, cupid shuffle
- Silly Dancessilly walk, shimmy shake
- funny danceshokey pokey, silly walk
- dance movespirouette, shimmy, waltz, tango, cha-cha
- kids danceballet, ballet class, hokey pokey, bunny hop, leotard
- Biergartenbeer garden, beer hall, beer tent, beer cellar, biergarten
chicken danceslow dance
Gentle paired swaying
waltz · last dance · first dance · tango · foxtrot
chicken danceballet
Classical dance on pointe
ballroom dancing · waltz · tango · Viennese waltz · pas de deux
chicken dancedance recital
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