Talk:Electro dance

North America section questionable
This section, attributing one individual to the "discovery" of the dance, and describing a few individuals creating a facebook group and performing at a school, seems like it cannot be from legitimate source(s). It is already tagged with "citation needed", but I feel that it should be given more attention. Looking at the revision history, the section was built up gradually by anonymous editor(s) during the last week of December, 2008. It may need to be reverted to its state before those edits, or otherwise thoroughly revised. --71.171.80.40 (talk) 06:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

I agree, there should be some type of post that describes the presence of Tecktonik in North America (I would personally limit my own work to the U.S. as I am not familiar with Tecktonik's presence in Mexico or Canada). I don't, however, think it would be possible to determine who in particular is responsible for introducing or spreading the dance form in the U.S. It may be that people learned about it by randomly stumbling upon notable videos. From there, it could have spread through word of mouth without necessarily making these first discoverers pioneers. What do others think about a general description of the dance in the United States (and other parts of North America if anyone possesses such knowledge)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by EDM Guy (talk • contribs) 00:27, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Marketing ploy
All I heard about this "new craze" on the media seems to be a coordinated marketing effort. Seems like a way to sell clothes. In any case all of this seems fabricated.


 * Personally I live in the South and I've found the "new craze" to have very little to do with the brand :).GBobly (talk) 14:52, 19 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Right, and the fact that it existed in its present form for about 6 years?... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.31.153.152 (talk) 22:04, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

What's weird is that the style is heaps similar to that which has emerged in a lot of Sydney's Clubs, yet everyone here calls it "Electro House". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.239.39.10 (talk) 04:13, 11 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Electro house refers to a type of music, not a dance. Tecktonik has become a popular way to dance to Electro. --170.215.130.226 (talk) 04:38, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I live in France, near Paris, and Tecktonik is just a trademark, not a dance. In the beginning of this craze people called this dance tecktonik, because it was born during the "tecktonik killer" parties in the Metropolis Club (Rungis - France). But the real name of thsi dance is "Electro Dance" in France ("Danse électro" in french), even if some people are still calling it Tecktonik. So I think that we should rename this article into "Electro Dance"... 86.72.192.49 (talk) 19:55, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Nazi Symbol
I don't why it was suddenly branded as a nazi symbol but basic research shows that it's actually similar to the Heraldry Eagle which has a very different connotation. While still polemic, I hope no one will change this back as I would consider that vandalism.GBobly (talk) 14:52, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

(Factual error needs to be fixed) The tecktonik is not a show of gay-pride events. I'm wondering if the reporter did not mistake French techno parade and tecktonik concerts for gay pride events.
The reporter who wrote this article about tecktonik must have some homophobic prejudices. Tecktonik is not affiliated to any gay movement and has nothing to do with the gay pride. I found another wikipedia article about the dance(& style) and it looks so much more accurate and objective compared to this one. One should learn about the recent French Fads before writing such nonsense. A lot of Tecktonik dancers may look metrosexual, and the same is true for many young people in big cities like Los Angeles and Paris. So please elaborate investigation and try to get solid facts the next time you write about the "tecktonik".

(In US, gay pride events may feature a bunch of people with multicolored shirts and cyberpunk hairstyle, but don't be so closed-minded that you could mistake techno events for gay pride events. Americans tend to think that techno or electro music is a music genre for gay people, but they also chose to ignore the fact that techno and electro music has gained a huge success among French and Europeans. The majority of which has perharps never thought about having sex with somebody from the same sex.)

My point is don't make people think that tecktonik is a gay fad and homosexual dance, It is not! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.204.153.105 (talk) 07:59, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * This may be due to the vogue influences, but the dance is danced by both men and women, in fact, I haven't even heard the gay community on this.
 * I've seen plenty of shows that leans a straight attitude, the festivals and online vids seem to be more street than meterosexual and more social than sexual. The moves are often masculine so you can't say it's a feminine dance either. When tecktonik dancers pose in a vogue-style, it is not at all necessarily of a feminine nature, it is simply that of showing off and posing for a plausible picture, photography, in other words. I don't think the dance is even related to gay culture or remotely looks gay,
 * The reason I believe 'Americans tend to think that techno or electro music is a music genre for gay people' is due to the late conservatism within Hip Hop culture, all other 'new' dances and genres (techno, nu disco, electrofunk, house are all influenced by funk, disco and hip hop music) were considered less 'macho' like 'b-boying', etc, and had a tendency of stopping new dance styles and music genres from being integrated into the hip hop, club and urban cultures. Of course, rap music is more dominant in US clubs than House ever has been (by research). Tecktonik doesn't appear to be actually a club dance, despite being danced to club music, it seems 'too wide' for the dancefloor, it takes up a lot of space, like hip hop dances, melbourne shuffling, jumpstyle, etc. It looks like Tecktonik marks a path of bringing House music back into Urban culture, it is already directly identified as a street dance, and its mixture of masculine and feminine properties make it a unisex dance, appropriate for both (or should I say 'all') genders. But back on topic, the vogue dance should be mentioned. Sometimes tecktonik even features waacking, not because it's gay, but because like all street dances, it takes little bits of other (street) dances, synthesises it, and produces a new one. Also, tecktonik is worth mention as being "choreographed or freestyle". FireWolf Flux (talk) 03:57, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Rungis
Tecktonik was not invented in Paris but in the south suburb of Paris. The Metropolis night club is located at Rungis (Val-de-Marne), about 10 miles from the Paris city limits. Clio64B (talk) 12:58, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Hardstyle Jumpstyle???
I've seen no one dancing Hardstyle and Jumpstyle music in this so-called Tecktonik way, and believe me I've travelled through the Rave parties of all europe: (street parade, Sensation black, Q-base, Energy...). The only reference to hardstyle in this article is taken from some obscure web page whose author had obviously no idea of what Hard/Jumpstyle is.

Fournine (talk) 19:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QQ3AJKzCvk I've seen several people dancing Hardstyle and Jumpstyle music in this so-called Tecktonik way, and believe me I've travelled through the clubs of all the world: (Space, Womb, Babyface, Venue...). Also see it weekly at the Guvernment. The only objection to hardstyle in this article is taken from the above comment whose author had obviously no idea of what Hard/Jumpstyle is.

--4tck (talk) 14:55, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry 4tck, you may have seen some people freestyling on Hard/jump music, but as user Fournine said, at the biggest Hard/Jump events in Europe nobody dances à la tecktonik. You cannot simply compare what happens in small clubs like the ones you cite, to deeply hard/jump events like Hardbass, black, defqon, qbase and others. I can do some tango on heavy metal music background. does this mean tango is danced to metal music? the user above was making a sensible remark on the reliability of one of the sources, your sarcasme seems completely out-of-place here. I think you need more than a link to youtube to prove your point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.96.214.180 (talk) 10:07, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Electro Dance
Its not tecktonik, the name is Electro Dance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.138.176.129 (talk) 23:37, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Nonsense
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This does not make sense. --141.58.127.173 (talk) 16:21, 17 January 2012 (UTC)