How To Dance Like Elaine From Seinfeld
I lost myself to the music, equally lost in the romance I was sharing with my wife — until she started laughing
“You look just like Elaine from Seinfeld.”
If she meant I was as cool as Elaine at her coolest, I’d have said heck yeah.
But she meant my dancing looked like a chicken trying to **** an aardvark. You know, just like Elaine in that episode of Seinfeld.
I didn’t let that stop me, though. Elaine lost herself to the music. The point was never to dance well. It was always just to dance.
And now thanks to a couple of internet wizards, you can follow these step-by-step instructions to lose yourself to the music, too.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus created the dance curriculum still in use today
In 1998, the dance was well on its way to becoming as much of a cultural icon as Seinfeld.
I mean the show, not the eternally-grumpy comic (ILU Jerry). Only one of them still gets regular play outside of niche stand-up circles and Crackle Originals.
To help spread the dance curriculum Jerry helped make famous, Julia Louis-Dreyfus took her famous moves to journalist, anchor, and news icon Katie Couric.
But we all know how easy it is to manipulate the audience. Magic tricks seem like magic when you can use the illusion of camera, invisible edits, and as many takes as it, uh, takes.
Proof that a normal human can replicate these amazing dance moves
Hell yeah!!! The Negative Space channel on YouTube proves that the dance can be done.
Now precise instructions for how to do the dance yourself
Are you ready to join the Elaine Benes Dance craze?
Whether on Medium, YouTube, or TikTok, people of all ages across the world are doing this iconic dance.
Now that you know how to do the dance, can you possibly restrain yourself from showing off at the holiday dinner table?
