Dance World Records

Yanhao Deng of Chenzhou, Hunan, performed 58 shanshenbu, the quick sideways flash step from Anhui's Huagudeng folk dance, in one minute, barefoot on a bed at home. Each step sweeps both arms to one side, shoots the same foot out sideways and snaps back to standing at attention, alternating left and right. A phone countdown on the desk stays in view for the whole unedited video, and RecordSetter counted every step frame by frame between the countdown reaching one minute and zero. That is nearly one flash a second.

Erinn Dearth and Dan Beckmann, the performing duo Letters From Home, took their USO-style variety show to all 50 U.S. states in 121 days. The tour opened at the Gulf Theatre in Punta Gorda, Florida on January 27, 2023 and closed at the Lincoln Theatre in Marion, Virginia on May 28, 2023, with a tap dance performance at a venue in every state along the way. Filmmaker Jack Walterman traveled with the tour to document it.

Elisia Morries performed 20 fouettes in 10 seconds at a dance studio in Birmingham, England. A fouette is the whipped turn where a dancer spins on one leg while the other whips out to the side and snaps back in, so twenty of them in ten seconds means coming all the way around roughly every half second without ever stepping down. Frame-by-frame analysis of her video puts her at one complete revolution every 15.2 frames, or 1.97 turns per second, and that cadence holds from the first turn to the last with no break in the footage. She takes the record from Liam Canavan, who set 17 in 2017, and she is still turning when the video runs out.

Elisia Morries performed 20 fouettes in 10 seconds at a dance studio in Birmingham, England. A fouette is the whipped turn where a dancer spins on one leg while the other whips out to the side and snaps back in, so twenty of them in ten seconds means coming all the way around roughly every half second without ever stepping down. Frame-by-frame analysis of her video puts her at one complete revolution every 15.2 frames, or 1.97 turns per second, and that cadence holds from the first turn to the last with no break in the footage. She takes the record from Liam Canavan, who set 17 in 2017, and she is still turning when the video runs out.

Paige Lacy performed 27 grand jetes in under 30 seconds.

Paige Lacy performed 27 grand jetes in under 30 seconds.

Emilee danced to Gangnam Style for 10 minutes, 21.81 seconds.

Bristol Cawthon performed 26 A La Seconde turns in 15 seconds while wearing a fedora hat.

Jamie Ingley pronounced the word "dance" for exactly one minute, 35.57 seconds.

Amy Mead danced the Macerena for four minutes, 25.71 seconds while balancing on a basketball.

Woody of Sharkiteuthis Diving Co. performed the Thriller Dance 69 feet underwater. He set the record during Kids Sea Camp in Belize.

395 people danced to "Can't Stop the Feeling" while wearing glow stick necklaces. They set the record during Summer Sizzle, a summer kick-off event in Mesquite, Texas.

Lubbeek Leopards danced polonaise while holding a lacrosse stick.

Pedro Elias bounced a calamari ring on another calamari ring five times, ending with a breakdance routine.

Finlay M. performed 10 jumping worm moves in 30 seconds.

543 students at Maharishi Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School in Tamil Nadu, India danced to Shake Your Sillies Out.