Origins of the Female Assassin Dance

I've figured out what the male Assassin dance is from, obviously it's the robot, but if I remember right it's done exactly how one of the main characters in the movie "Euro Trip" did it.

Monks do a weird blend of tai chi and capoeira.

If you want to see something really crazy, get a male monk to /flex.

Male monks is Tai Chi mixed with some weird spinning thats really out of place.
Female monks is "chung quan" or Northen Fist - a form of morden Wu shu

holy cow a national geographic study in the dances of the professions of guild wars...geez..whatever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you insane?!

Thost silly dance moves have nothing to do with the Capoeira (which resembles the basics of a fighting style, not spastic movements ).

Male Ranger's dance is Rerun's dance from "What's Happening?"
Male Assasin's dance is Lamar's dance from "The Revenge of the Nerds"

It also appears to mimic Michael Jackson from Moonwalker...

well im sure one of the two males does a dance that is ether janet jackson doing the vid from rythum (feck it, i cant spell it) nation, or its a realy old 5Star song called system addict (least, tats what i think of when i see it....i thougt of jakko, but theres no crotch grabbing, so its ether him with it deleated, or one of the other two ^^)

oh, and female eles dont bellydance, they do the hawayan welcom dance..watch their hands, they do more than just shimmy their boobs...

i would say the ranger girls are pole dancing, but with the pole taken out

Male Ritualist - Napoleon Dynamite???

I thought Male Ritualist is Christopher Penn from the 1984 movie Footloose.

Exactly what I've always thought. The Ritualist Female has a couple of moves out of traditional Persian Bellydancing, like that quick quarter-pelvic-twist then back to standard position. But the rest of it, I have no idea what she's doing...

Dang, I didn't try out the Female Assassin dance... what is it?

If anyone is doing the skank dance is the elems. Assassin just seems like they're doing an aerobics class... lol

Absolutely correct. No three step ginga. That's one of the more important things to identify Capoiera by.

lol I've been trying to figure out what all the dances are from, as well. And it seems all these dances are derived from someone else from movies or music.

We all know the obvious ones like:

Female Warrior: Pulp Fiction = Uma Thurman
Male Warrior: Pulp Fiction = John Travolta
Male Ele: Seinfield = Elaine
Male Rit: Napeolon Dynamite
Female Necro: Thriller = Michael Jackson
Mesmer Male and Female = River dance

But I'm pretty sure they are copying someone fictional or real.

For instance I figured out that the female Ele is infact a dance by Shakira from one of her singles on her spanish albums.

Dont believe me look up a video for "ojos asi" or just plain google "shairka + belly dancing"

Now another one...I'm not quite sure if its right but I have a hunch that it could be a possibilty that the Female Rit dance is from Beyonce's music video of "Baby Boy." I could be wrong but most of the moves are almost identical.

and someone has mention earlier that

Male Ranger= Rerun's dance (Break-dancing)= What's Happening?

and

Male Assassin = Lamar's dance (The robot)= Revenge of the Nerds

As for the others such as:
Female Ranger = We can only conclude that its a pole dance
Monk Male and Female: Some kind of yoga crossed with martial arts training
Male Necro = Headbanging


and the assassin female is still up for questioning..



*Edit/ :Anyone else find something else as to what those last dances are by?

I dunno bout the female Ranger, I always thought it was some kind of Britney Spears shtick.

As far as the female assassin goes, first time my wife and I saw it, we swore it was some kind of aerobics workout/dance from the 80's... the flips at the end make me want to say something in the area of a gymnastic dance of some kind.

Nope. Capo Eira is a break-dance like fighting style. Most recognizably used by Eddy in Tekken.

the female assassins dance originated from the show "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air".... jk but it seems like someone would do that dance on the show, right?

capoeira is a fighting style disguised as a dance. south american slaves used this dance to practice their fighting style right under the eyes of their masters, because they werent allowed to train to fight.

female monks do a Kata, which is a simulated fight against imaginairy opponents. nowadays they even do it at martial arts tournaments accompagnied with music . just like dancing:-)


edit: capoera is a noncontact sport btw:-)

I suggest you go watch the old Janet Jackson video, Nasty. There's a couple scenes where you can see almost the entire Female Ranger dance.

instead of kata (which is a japanese word) its probably more apporiate to call it a Form or taolu in chinese.

I am 100% sure the female monks does changquan since I was taught this in the Wu Shu marital art school i went to (where i also learned some Tai Chi which is one the male monk's dance is). see here for description of changquan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changquan