Good morning, welcome to our series sharing Unique Holidays: May 14th, 2021. Did you know today is Dance Like a Chicken Day. Get your family and get to dancing. I just wish Lily and Jason was here to do the Chicken Dance with Charlie and I.
Sounds like its time to do the Chicken Dance which Charlie and I can do in PE this morning. Would you like to come and join us. Because I know David will not.
Dance Like a Chicken Day is for those who like to do the “Chicken Dance”. All ‘ya gotta do is dance like a chicken. While any dance song will do, there’s no dance like the Chicken dance.
The Chicken Dance is a tradition at Wedding reception. The Chicken Dance gets people of all ages up dancing. The dance puts a smile on everyone’s face. The Chicken Dance is not limited to weddings this dance is also played at other social events where there is a band and dancing.
The only problem is that events are way too frequent for a Chicken dance lover. Therefore, today exists to provide you with another opportunity to dance like a Chicken.
Let’s do the Chicken Dance..
Fun Fact: Did you know there are more chickens than humans in the world.
How to do the Chicken Dance:
Join the crowd as soon as you hear the Chicken Dance song head to the dance floor and join the circle of other dancers. The crowd may also be formed in a line, or broken into groups of different people doing the dance by themselves.
- The Chicken Dance is done in repetitions of three, followed by a clap at the end of the section.
Make the chicken beak with your hands. Holding your arms out before you, form “chicken beaks” by pressing your fingers and thumb together, opening and shutting your hand like the beak of a chicken.
- Open and close your beaks four times in time with the music
Flap your wings four times. Putting your thumbs in your armpits, flap your elbows as if they’re wings. With your hands in your armpits, your elbows should point out, resembling chicken wings.
- Repeat this motion four times in sync with the music.
Bend your knees and shake your hips with the music. With your hands at your hips like the feathers of a chicken, move your hips to the left and right as you lower yourself down toward the ground.
- There is no rule on how low you are supposed shake during the shaking of your hips.
Stand up straight and clap four times with the music. This is the last step of the Chicken Dance, prepare yourself for two more rounds of repeating these moves. In some versions of the Chicken Dance , the pace increases as the song progresses, so prepare yourself for things to move faster.
- This dance can also be done in the seated position if you have someone who is injured or who cannot stand.
Give yourself creative freedom. These are the basic guidelines to the the chicken dance, allow yourself to be creative and mix things up. The Chicken Dance is supposed to be fun, so if you feel like there is something you can do to spice things up, don’t hesitate to do so.
- The more loose and free you are while doing the Chicken Dance, the more fun you will have.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
