Many professional dancers were initially reluctant to join the amateurs. The platform’s forced vertical orientation and one-minute time limit helped give rise to a building-block collection of basic, tight, upright steps that the average person could learn and replicate. But TikTok-style dance has proved influential well beyond the confines of the platform - a culture marker rather than a passing trend.ĭance has defined TikTok since it arrived on the international scene in 2017. Dance no longer dominates the average TikTok user’s “For You” page, and the choreography now circulating on the app is more varied and sophisticated. TikTok dance has undergone a significant evolution over the last few years, at once a contraction and an expansion. “TikTok is not a children’s dancing app,” the activist and content creator Aidan Kohn-Murphy told The Wall Street Journal during the trip. Even some of the TikTok creators in Washington distanced themselves from the app’s dance culture, emphasizing instead its usefulness as a tool for education and political engagement. We wouldn’t lose much, the argument goes, by getting rid of a platform on which teens perform frivolous dance challenges. Their choreographed dissent had a sardonic bite: TikTok’s opponents often use its dance-centric reputation as ammunition. How else to protest a potential ban on what’s been nicknamed “the dance app”? While TikTok’s chief executive prepared to testify before Congress, the influencers posted dance videos filmed in the halls of the Capitol building and on a Constitution Avenue rooftop, hashtagging them #SaveTikTok. When TikTok flew a group of its stars to Washington last month, it seemed inevitable that they would end up dancing.
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