![]() ![]() It was at this point it became a party dance and later combined with other illusion styles to form today's popping style. While not the first to imitate a robot as a mime, Charles "Robot" Washington and his partner "Robot Ann" were the first to socially couple dance the style to music at parties and clubs. In the late 1960s, the style was used while social dancing to funk or soul music. ![]() Street theater often featured mimes who did a mechanical man or puppet style illusion, without music. When done without music, it is considered to be mime, instead of dance. However, the robot also exists as its own dance and is sometimes considered a performance rather than a dance when the performer is imitating a robot without any music. Robot dancing is often considered a subsection of popping because poppers often include the robot in their routines, sometimes adding pops to the beat while maintaining the illusion of a robot. As long as the illusion of being a robot is maintained, it is considered the robot. ![]() Movements of the robot are normally started and finished with a dimestop (a very abrupt stop), to give the impression of motors starting and stopping, but poppers have also been known to do the robot with a pop to the beat. It is a dance in which the dancer moves their limbs in a way that imitates the movements of a robot. The robot became popular in the 1960s, but goes back to the 1920s, when it was used theatrically in miming. Roboting gained fame in the 1970s after Michael Jackson used the dance when he performed " Dancing Machine" with his brothers. The robot, also called mannequin or dancing machine, is a street dance style-often confused with popping-that suggests the stilted movements of a dancing robot or mannequin. ![]()
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