(The boy on the top left of the first picture is not Chris Finch. It is Felix Howard, the boy from the Open Your Heart video.) Below the pictures is an English translation of the article. Thank you very much to Ty for the translation.

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the DANCE which goes

A GREAT STEP AHEAD IN THE HISTORY OF THE DANCE

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It is the last cry in the United States! Chris Finch, the dancer junior of Madonna on the other side of the Atlantic has just taught you the walking dance!

In the United States, the fashion of the walking dance makes fury: one breaks out in the discotechs! Walking dance or, in French, the dance where one walks because the steps resemble those of somebody who walks quietly in the street.

One thing is sure, the walking dance is the great discovery of the summer of 89. To learn it or to help you improve, we found a teacher of choice, Chris Finch, the child prodigy who accompanied Madonna in his last round. To become an ace of the walking dance, it is enough for you to follow Chris step by step.

1) the "walk" will start. Get in a position to start, the feet parallel and the arms on the right side. This position is very significant because it enables you to be well placed for the remainder of the steps.

2) Bring your feet closer together and elevate the arms. The knees are slightly folded and the palms of your hands should be well opened, like making cuckoo (clock).

3) Return to the starting position. The arms remain on the right but attention: the legs are turned in the opposed direction, ready to set out again. The knees are folded.

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History of the walking dance

Do you know where when and how the walking dance was born? All started in Bonnie's, a very known discotech of New York where one can dance on ten different tracks, according to taste.

Certain tracks are normal, others bizarre, most famous is known under the name of Rolling Field: it is entirely made travelling carpets and part of the track is moving. It is on this track that was born the walking dance, a step simple and amusing, a kind of stylization of the step of the walker.

The walking dance adapts perfectly to all the musics of discotech and in particular with rap and the house music. With the cry of Walk and Dance!

(walk and dance!), the DJ's invite the public to break out. The great success of the walking dance is due to its simplicity; everyone can dance it. It is enough to (savor?)!

4) Hands in the air as in the second position. But this time they swivel. The legs are in an X. The knee of the right leg is folded while the left leg is (locked).

5) Lower the hands and then move them to the left, pushing back all of your body. This time, it is the right leg which is locked and the left bent and resting on the point of the foot.

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6) To finish: always lock the right leg so that the left leg swivels on itself, making the body swivel. Hands with height of the chest, ready to move towards the right.

cameraPicClick here to see close-ups of Chris performing the Walking Dance.