Article 5RPFG Shake your frozen pizza! The scrappy have-a-go exuberance of dance on TikTok

Shake your frozen pizza! The scrappy have-a-go exuberance of dance on TikTok

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Lyndsey Winship
from Technology | The Guardian on (#5RPFG)

From tap stars duetting with Gene Kelly to Gordon Ramsay twisting with his daughter, TikTok is where performers - large, small, amateur, pro - drop the facade and dance till their toes are raw

TikTok is made for dance. The most popular TikToker - Charli D'Amelio, 17, with 9.9bn likes - is a dancer, or started out as one. And it is the platform that's launched or spread a thousand dance trends, from the #toosieslide to the #TheGitUpChallenge, via the Floss, the Dougie and the Milly Rock.

Unlike the slick pros of Instagram, or the archive performances on YouTube, TikTok is just about the pure joy of dancing, whoever you are. Size, shape, experience and natural grace are immaterial. It's essentially the school playground writ very large, the silly routines and memes that used to get passed around, with everyone miming the lyrics to whatever was on Top of the Pops last night.

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