Running man (dance)

[citation needed] Notable practitioners of the dance were MC Hammer, Janet Jackson, Five Star, Selena, Milli Vanilli, and Vanilla Ice during their live concert shows and in music videos.

Bobby Brown also popularized a variant called the Roger Rabbit dance (similar to a "backwards" running man), as seen in the music video for his song "Every Little Step" (1989).

[4] A proto version of the step was performed by one of Nigeria's Fela Anikulapo-Kuti female dancers on stage at his 1978 Berlin concert in Germany (1:17:11; [5]).

The running man achieved massive popularity during the early to mid 1990s, and later scored a meme revival during the late 2000s, being performed in a similar manner as the Melbourne shuffle dance style.

[citation needed] Additionally, singer Britney Spears performed it during her The M+M's Tour,[6] and Scarlett Johansson claimed "I do a great running man" in an interview with Seventeen.