The video-sharing app TikTok is best known as the home of dance routines to viral songs – be it fluid body rolls to Doja Cat’s “Say So” or the “Renegade” routine created by a 14-year-old in Atlanta – taken on by everyone from Lizzo to the Kardashians. They use exaggerated, slapstick movements and are usually made popular by a peppy Californian teenager. But in a sea of dance crazes, Irish dancing is the surprising traditional form exploding across the app.
In a viral TikTok that made international news, was reposted by Beyonce’s mother and earned the creator an official invite to dance with the touring Riverdance troupe, 20-year-old Morgan Bullock from Richmond, Virginia treble jigs to Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage”. Atlanta-based teenagers Cian and Jack Porter – known to their 94,000 followers as the Porter Brothers – hit 3.7 million on their slick dance duet to Saint Jhn’s “Roses”, showing their impressive double clicks and one-footed jumps to the chart-topping track.
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