Ymca Dance facts
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I learned the Village People didn't create the YMCA dance. The group was clapping above their head during a performance and the audience thought they were making a "Y" and continued by forming the rest of the letters The band just rolled with it and included it in the rest of their performances.
The famous YMCA dance was never on the YMCA music video by The Village People.
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The Village People did not do the "YMCA" dance in their music video of the same.
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The memorable 'YMCA dance' was not performed by the Village People initially, and only originated the year after the song's release when it was performed by the audience of a TV show they were appearing on
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In the original YMCA music video, The Village People don’t actually do the YMCA dance with their arms. It was later popularized a year later on the Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. The audience performed it that way for the band and then they included it in the choreography
