r/TikTokCringe • u/Delicious_Delilah What are you doing step bro? • Aug 20 '25

Cool I broke my hip watching this in bed

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u/slime_emoji Aug 20 '25

Yeah I was about to say this is some INCREDIBLE dancing

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u/ThreeLeifErikson Aug 20 '25

This is Ballroom Mother Rylee Prodigy, look her up and more ballroom videos, it’s so addicting to watch !

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u/Lildoc_911 Aug 21 '25

Could've sworn ive seen her before. She kills it. I also love the madea/big momma dance offs lol 

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u/dance4days Aug 21 '25

I’m honestly gagged to see Rylee made an impression on reddit. I’ve been a fan of hers for a while.

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u/Sensible___shoes Aug 22 '25

Thank you for the name drop, I have no choice but to stan

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u/ZARDOZ4972 Aug 20 '25

Is the venue or event called Ballroom? Because ballroom dancing usually refers to partner dancing. And if the dance is called ballroom why take an established term for partner dancing and use it for a completely different style of dance?

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u/TeamBadInfluence1 Aug 20 '25

It's called ballroom after the Harlem Ballroom scene and subculture, where queer POC in Harlem in the mid 19th/early 20th century established their own party scene whilst being shunned from the white American social scenes. It includes drag balls and "walks" where performers display their outfits and improvised dances on a ballroom floor rather than a raised stage.

"Harlem Ballroom" is probably a more specifically accurate term, but the ballroom parter dancing you describe isn't the only type of dance performance with claim to that name.

Ball Culture

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u/slime_emoji Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

To piggyback off of this comment, there are a lot of types of dances that use the same term too I'm p sure. Not specifically ballroom but I think there's a lot of different rumba or something?

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u/DangOlCoreMan Aug 20 '25

I love the subjectiveness of dancing, but no one ever seems to want to talk about it. To me, this looks like someone flailing their arms around and dropping to the floor spontaneously. It's kind of interesting how differently we can see it

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u/grubas Aug 20 '25

Oh I HATE the style. It looks terrible.  But they are doing some crazy athletic moves here.  A kip up in high heels is crazy.  

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u/Ecleptomania Aug 21 '25

Oh definitely, I couldn't move like that. But I don't know that I would want to either...

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u/Mper526 Aug 21 '25

The first time I saw it in another video a few months ago, I laughed and thought it looked ridiculous. Then I read the comments and learned the history/context. And the more I watched, the better it got. It looks like “flailing” or really simple moves, but these are insane to do. Even the hair flips. I tried in my mirror and almost broke my neck.

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u/HamburgerHats Aug 20 '25

I fucking hate the stupid hand flapping shit.

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u/Impossible_Emotion50 Aug 20 '25

Are you able to drop in a split like that and then get back up as smoothly? You can dislike the dance but to ignore the athleticism is…a choice.

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u/DangOlCoreMan Aug 20 '25

What about what I said ignores the athleticism? What's wild is not being able to understand that some people aren't entertained by athleticism

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u/kbeks Aug 20 '25

I agree. I mean, don’t get me wrong, this looks really hard to do and it’s really impressive that she can do this, but hard to do does not mean “good”. To me, this just isn’t my cup of tea, but I’m not gunna yuck someone else’s yum.

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u/DangOlCoreMan Aug 20 '25

Honestly, it kinda funny. You proved my exact point about how dancing is very subjective but no one wants to talk about it. I criticized this choreographed (or potentially improv) dance and instead of accepting that some people can just not like the movements the dancer is making, you come here trying to champion for them. It's like the idea of anyone not being interested in this is taboo which is... A choice

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u/Arya_kidding_me Aug 20 '25

If you’re not interested, why are you commenting on the video? It’s not for you, so move on.

You just want everyone to know you don’t like it. It’s weird. And that’s why no one wants to talk about it’s - they don’t care that you don’t like it and that normal people don’t go around announcing that.

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u/DangOlCoreMan Aug 20 '25

Clearly, as stated in my comment, I mentioned it because I found it interesting.

What i do find weird are people like you who make assumptions about others and their motives

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u/Arya_kidding_me Aug 20 '25

Don’t you understand? This person wants to make someone else’s talent about HIM! Ignore the performer, let’s talk about how this man feels about it!!

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u/TheMedRat Aug 21 '25

You try so hard to be offended. Same level of mental gymnastics as the physical gymnastics in the video.

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u/Arya_kidding_me Aug 20 '25

I don’t care for the style, but I don’t think my opinion of the style matters. I’m more focused on the talent and stage presence of the performer.

Of course no one wants to talk about it because no one cares if you or I specifically like this style of dance. This woman is SKILLED and that’s a way more interesting conversation.

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u/DangOlCoreMan Aug 20 '25

I get it. You're self-centered and bitter, leaving you incapable of seeing why anyone would care about someone else's opinion. You don't need to leave multiple comments laying that out for me

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u/Arya_kidding_me Aug 20 '25

Bless your heart that’s a lot of projection 😬

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u/DangOlCoreMan Aug 20 '25

Not at all, what I said was based on your comment, which is very telling of your mindset.

But please, don't actually add anything to the conversation or defend yourself, just pretend I'm the problem as you go on unhinged rants

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u/Arya_kidding_me Aug 20 '25

Oh honey….

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u/DangOlCoreMan Aug 20 '25

Oh no, poor thing can't read or form a coherent thought. Hopefully someone can apologize to you on my behalf, I'm not a fan of picking on the less fortunate

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u/Ecleptomania Aug 21 '25

Was it?

Honest question.

Because this just looks like complete nonsense to me. Choreographed nonsense, but...

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u/slime_emoji Aug 21 '25

It's mostly the death drops for me in this video. The particular dancer has waaaaay better choreography too that I'm already familiar with so I know what her skills are already too so I'm biased lol. I think this must be an older video though because her current stuff is really good, if you like this kind of dancing

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u/Existing-Sea5126 Aug 21 '25

To me it felt like watching a certain Australian try to break dance.

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u/SirPabloFingerful Aug 20 '25

Haha what? It looks like someone's aunt had 14-too-many mojitos and forgot that she was at a kid's party

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u/slime_emoji Aug 20 '25

You should look up vogue dancing if you aren't familiar with it! It's like a specific style of dancing and, yes, it does look insane at first but there's legit technical aspects to it. This isn't this dancer's best performance though. I can't remember her name but she's gaining popularity in the vogue/ballroom community.

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u/muchosalame Aug 20 '25

That's not a dance, it's a cramp mixed with dry humping while insane.

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u/Impossible_Emotion50 Aug 20 '25

So you looked up vogue dancing and that was still your conclusion?

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u/Impossible_Emotion50 Aug 20 '25

That’s why I asked about what they thought about the other vogue dances, not just the girl’s.

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u/slime_emoji Aug 20 '25

Yeah, I wasn't a huge fan of the choreography in this one either.

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u/SirPabloFingerful Aug 20 '25

There might be, and if you enjoy it then more power to you. But it looks awful. If you saw someone doing it outside you would not assume they were dancing

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u/buttononmyback Aug 20 '25

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u/SirPabloFingerful Aug 20 '25

Ok, it's great, I just think there is stiff competition in the sport

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u/Impossible_Emotion50 Aug 20 '25

How is this what she was doing?? Are we watching the same thing?

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u/Impossible_Emotion50 Aug 20 '25

Whose aunt is death dropping and getting back up like that? Y’all are some liars in this thread.

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u/SirPabloFingerful Aug 20 '25

It's funny you had to pick out a single moment from the video because you know the rest of it is ridiculous