Spice Girls Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes

Hello. I'm TV's Robert Webb,

actor, writer and a highly accomplished dancer.

This is just one of pop's greatest dance crazes.

-Whoo!

-Girl power!

They were just huge.

They were like a force.

# When you're feeling sad and low... #

Five young, loud, in-your-face girls,

thinking they were going to change the world and, at one time,

they did change the world and the world was at their feet.

A lot of people were copying just the way they acted and little girls

wanted to be Sporty or little girls wanted to be Baby Spice.

# Slam it to the left if you're having a good time... #

A generation of young girls spiced up their lives and learnt some new funky new dance moves.

It was important for us when we were doing our choreography.

We wanted to keep the dance routines quite simple because we wanted people

to be able to copy them and to do them along with us at home and stuff.

First of all, some classic Spice Girl moves. One, two, cha-cha-cha.

Two, two, cha-cha-cha. OK, got that?

Then you can add the arms. You can freestyle a little bit.

Cha-cha-cha.

And then let's add the song.

Are you ready?

# La-la-la-la-la

# La-la-la-la. #

A little bit like that.

# Spice Up Your Life, ahhhh

# Slam it to the left if you're having a good time... #

Slam it to the left and shake it to the right.

I was shaking it everywhere from Europe to New York.

You couldn't stop me.

# Yo, I'll tell you what I want what I really, really want... #

Each Spice Girl had her own unique persona, which gave them highly individual dancing styles.

Who can forget Scary, Sporty and Arthritic?

Loads of people think that we had our Spice names and we lived up to that.

But what really happened was we kind of just presented ourselves

as the individuals that we were,

and we were named by Top Of the Pops magazine and those names just stuck.

# Make it last forever Friendship never ends... #

With those characters that they created,

came their own specific dance. That was really clever.

Victoria's, of course, is the point and pout.

Posh Spice would always do stuff like that, look away.

Victoria Beckham was famous for not really dancing at all.

She would just sort of point at things.

Presumably at things that she would later get David Beckham to buy her.

Scary Spice was all just Aargh!

-Very animalistic.

-She growled. She always screamed at the camera.

She did the high kicks and stuff like that.

Emma had lots of very cutesy, maybe little shushes.

Emma was a good dancer.

She really knew how to get down.

Geri's, of course, is the peace sign which we all adopted.

Geri had no rhythm. Couldn't put one foot in front of the other.

It was a little bit unfair really,

because four of us girls had had dance training and Geri hadn't,

so we used to do a bit of extra rehearsing, myself and Geri.

Sporty Spice's signature moves.

Well, of course, who can forget the backflip

performed a few times on tables.

Wide stance. Point up the sky.

That was a bit of Sporty.

A punch, that was a bit Sporty.

And then a signature kick.

Yah! I still got it!

We worked with some of the world's best choreographers,

and we have always had these really difficult routines

but we just make them easier.

We learn them and go, "Can we just make it a bit easier?"

You can't sing and do all that. That's why everyone mimes.

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