From left: Justice Crew, Carmelo Pizzino, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Paulini, Nic Westaway, Adam Williams and Aston join the dancers. Source: The Sunday Telegraph
IT'S official - the Down Under Dance is a KAK!
Popular television host Kerri-Anne Kennerley turned out with a troupe of 150 young dancers at Sydney's Mrs Macquarie's Chair to urge everyone to get behind The Sunday Telegraph's new dance craze.
Choreographer Adam Williams created the dance for US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres to do on her impending visit to Australia, urging her to try moves like the kangaroo hop, the paw paw and the Bondi hot sand.
In pictures: See who's doing the Down Under Dance
Surrounded by Project Dance students and showing off her best moves with her Dancing With The Stars partner Carmelo Pizzino, Kennerley said: "We've seen Psy do his thing with Gangnam Style and, especially with Ellen's visit to Australia, it should be mandatory that she gets into the spirit with an Australian song and choreography."
With the Opera House and Harbour Bridge in the background, the dancers were also joined by singer Paulini Curuenavuli, classical group Aston, and Home And Away actor Nic Westaway. Chart-toppers Justice Crew are hoping to score a spot on the The Ellen DeGeneres show to be filmed in Sydney and Melbourne from March 15.
"Man, we would love to rock it with Ellen, Justice Crew-style, when she arrives in Sydney," Justice Crew's Emmanuel "E-Man" Rodriguez said.
Hop on the band wagon
EVERYBODY is hopping to it - the "Down Under Dance" has proven a hit, with fleet-footed sportsmen to television identities joining the fun.
Rabbitohs brothers Sam and Luke Burgess got in on the act, as did Home and Away actor Nic Westaway, television host Kerri-Anne Kennerley and pop singing dance troupe Justice Crew.
Choreographed by Adam Williams, the Dance Down Under was created by The Sunday Telegraph as a challenge to US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres.
She's bringing her popular program, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, to Sydney and Melbourne in March.
"Hold on to your wallabies - I'm going to Australia!" she said earlier this month after the trip was announced. Although some have criticised the Down Under Dance, many have embraced it, with The Sunday Telegraph receiving photographs and videos from readers from around the country.
Canberra's Becky Fleming and her friends sent in photos, while Oceanworld Manly filmed scuba divers doing the dance under water. Dance teacher Natalie Ettingshausen, who runs Ettingshausens Dynamic Arts in Kirrawee, gathered her students and other young dancers from Sydney's Project Dance program at Mrs Macquarie's Chair on Friday to film the Dance Down Under.
DeGeneres, 54, is married to Australian actor Portia de Rossi, who grew up in Geelong. Despite the Down Under connection, DeGeneres has never actually travelled to Australia before.
Of her planned trip here, the 13-time Emmy Award-winning TV host tweeted: "Okay, I just google-mapped my trip to Australia. You've gotta be kidding me."
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