Wu-tang (dance)

Wu-tang is a dance out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, popularized in the area of North Philadelphia before spreading throughout the city and the surrounding region. [ [http://willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com/archives/2005/12/quickies_enter.html Philadelphia Will Do ] ] [ [http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=14437 The Dirty Dozen - philadelphia weekly online ] ] The dance is normally performed to Baltimore club music. The dance involves a jerking of the arms in an up-and-down/side-to-side motion. The movement of the arms sometimes resembles flexing. Each individual person adds their own spin to the dance, be it fancy footwork or the mimicking of gunshots. A similar Philly dance is the "D-Mack" or "D-Mac," in which a dancer moves his arms or legs on one side of his body (often in a similar motion as the Wu-tang), and then imitates the same moves on the other side of his body. The Wu-tang dance has become very popular around the Philadelphia-New Jersey-Delaware-Baltimore region, and it has been compared with the "Chicken Noodle Soup Dance" of Harlem, the Bay Area's hyphy dances, Atlanta's crunk dances, Baltimore's "Rockin' Off" dance, Miami's "stickin' n rollin'", and Compton's "Krumping" or "crip-walking." [ [http://thecouchsessions.com/archives/560 WTF is the Wu Tang Dance? : The Couch Sessions ] ]

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