Bad Dancing

After a few months’ run, this show unfortunately closed last month. That is a damn shame because in addition to encouraging audience participation and essentially two hours of interpretive dancing nestled in between three acts, this show also starred two of the funniest players I saw in Drunk Shakespeare, Damiyr Shuford and Whit Leyenburger.
I specifically brought one friend who was a fairly skilled dancer as I would have sacrificed him to the stage should I have been called up. Things worked out better than I expected, because Spencer was called up to the stage to perform the Macarena (he admirably attempted), the Chicken Dance (he had no idea) and the Cha-​Cha slide (luckily, he is a minority) while Daymir had an affinity for Karen, so in addition to being brought up for the soul train line, he also laid on Spencer and my lap to talk to her and brought her up for the Bad Dancing final dance-​off.
I have to say that both men were truly gifted bad dancers and at one point performed a ballet in which Damiyr cooked an egg and Whit moved as if he were the egg in the pan. After facing some slam-​dancing, tattooed up biker dude Karen won «Best Worst Dancer» (they tied anyway) and after two hours of non-​stop laughing, both players were nice enough to take a picture with us.

The reason i gave this show 2 stars is for the enthusiasm of the performers. I feel very mislead by the 5 star reviews on Unilocal.
I am in my early 20’s and ive gone to many off broadway perfomances, and this has been the WORSE one ive been to. This show is NOT funny at all (did not laugh once). It was a comlplete waste of time and cheesy.
Save your money and go see Stomp, Fuerza Bruta, or Blue Man Group.

Had no idea what we were in for… lots of fun! Very cute and hysterical. Audience participation was great. These guys are very talented! Very creative!

Great for all ages. My family of boys — age 10 –16 loved it. It was a highlight of our trip to NYC.

I went on Sunday afternoon with two 9 year olds and one 11 year old. it is a great funny show for both kids and adults. I would highly recommend this show. You can participate or just watch either way you will have a great time… go go go.

Loved it, best be ready for some audience participation. Both guys play very well off the other. Would definitely check them out even I come to the city again.

So much fun! We laughed, danced and had a great time. I highly recommend going. These guys work so well together. They are masters of getting the audience involved and treat everyone with respect and humor without hurting anyone’s feelings. My 14 year daughter said as we were going in, «I am absolutely not dancing.» She not only danced, but won the «best worst dancing» trophy!

Great show! Whit and Damiyr are really bad dancers but they are hilarious. They really feed off of whatever material the other «contestants» give them to work with. Looking forward to getting a bunch of friends together to see it again as a group.

So funny, so creative! Best show I’ve seen in a long time. Just can’t say enough about these guys and this show. A real gem.

Truly creative and hilarious! I would recommend to anyone who wants to have a good time laughing in NYC!

Hilarious! Laughed the entire show. You can participate or you can just sit back and enjoy the show. Audience participation is absolutely voluntary. These 2 performers had great improv skills to compliment their «bad dancing».

Hilarious stuff, these guys are just so talented and funny, the know how to work the crowd and make you really laugh.
Highly recommended! !!

I have seen this show more than once, and it gets better every time I see it. The performers interact with the audience to get us out of our seats, bad-​dancing alongside them. But then they have moments of really impressive or hilarious physicality. A fun show for all ages!

Never laughed so hard in my life. Go see it! It is very interactive as well and if they realize kids are in the audience they are thoughtful!

Hilarious, haven’t laughed that hard in ages. This is the truly awful dancing competition that New York deserves.

Had a great time was a lot of fun. Plenty of audience participation so bring your dancing shoes.

Just saw the Bad Dancing World Championship Finals, and I tell you, I haven’t laughed that hard in ages! Very silly and clever! You can get up and bad dance if you want, or not, but either way, you’ll be laughing till it hurts!

HIGH-​larious show!
My girlfriends and I found tickets through LivingSocial and had a blast!

80 minutes of hilarity. 2 super-​talented dancers/​performance artists cajole, wheedle and dare the audience to BAD DANCE!!! Come as a single, couple or group and join in the fun.