Backup dancer
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A backup dancer also known as background dancer is a performer who dances with or behind the lead performers in a live musical act or in a music video. Their movements (especially where there are many moving together) improve the visual aesthetics of the lead performer, and provide a symmetry and rhythm to accompany the music.
Backup dancers
Some performers began their music careers as backup dancers for other artists, including:
- Lee Know from Stray Kids (for BTS)
- Kim Hyo-yeon from Girls' Generation (for BoA)[citation needed]
- Yoon Ji-sung and Kang Daniel (for Shihyun and Cao Lu)[citation needed]
- Kevin Federline (for Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani, Pink, Christina Milian, and LFO)
- FKA twigs
- Cris Judd (for ex-wife Jennifer Lopez's 2001 video "Love Don't Cost a Thing")
- Jennifer Lopez (for the New Kids on the Block, MC Hammer and Janet Jackson's 1993 video "That's the Way Love Goes")[citation needed]
- Rain (for Park Jin-young and Park Ji-yoon)
- Tupac Shakur (for the Digital Underground)
- Michael K. Williams
- Zendaya (for Selena Gomez)
Gallery
- Balinese dancers in 1937 performing in a kecak
See also
- Corps de ballet
- Backing vocalist
- Extra (actor)
- Taxi dancer – a paid dancer in a partner-dance
Further reading
- Oshmyansky, Rosalyn (23 August 2014). . Entertainment Tonight.
- . Yahoo News. 24 July 2014.
- Spiegel, Amy Rose (11 June 2013). . BuzzFeed.
- . WXIA-TV. 1 March 2013.
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