‘The Greatest 25 Dancers of All Time’ Controversy
Author: Staff | Date: May 1st 2007 | Filed: Videos | VIEWS: 832
Last month BET aired a show called ‘The Greatest 25 Dancers of All Time’. The list was controversial, and prompted reactions from New York’s Dance Community - see video above. Big thanks to my homeboy Harry over at JumpOff.TV for the video link and list below.
Here’s the list:
25. Ciara
24. Diddy
23. Big Daddy Kane
22. Rosie Perez
21. Gregory Hines
20. Missy Elliott
19. Tina Turner
18. Aaliyah
17. Cab Calloway
16. Shakira
15. Omarion
14. Bobby Brown
13. Jennifer Lopez
12. Alvin Ailey
11. Usher
10. The Temptations
09. Beyoncé
08. Savion Glover
07. MC Hammer
06. Prince
05. Janet Jackson
04. Chris Brown
03. The Nicholas Brothers
02. Michael Jackson
01. James Brown
- This list is just all types of wrong!

JOE THOMAS
ROBIN THICKE
LLOYD



alurfc
May 1, 2007 at 7:57 PM
why is ciara # 25 she should be one of the top!
Mike
May 1, 2007 at 8:02 PM
Hell Yeah Alurfc - the shit’s fuck up!!!
J
May 1, 2007 at 9:36 PM
that was fuck up they were missing mya. mya can kill girls in dancing.
onces i saw ciara on number 25 i was lik wow mayb their going in how long people been in the business because beyonce was in 9. And i love b dont get me wrong but its dancing i gotta give it up to cici now. and i kinda thought that usher should of been in from of chris brown.
I kinda think that chris brown made that list………. come on janet should of been 4th or 3rd that list was fuck up for real
J
May 1, 2007 at 9:55 PM
My list
20.Diddy (what the fuck was he on the list)
19.Jenifer lopez(she use know how to dance when she was a fly girl)
18.Prince(Neva saw the man dance just saw him play a guitar and sing)
17.Beyonce(She can booty shake but i kinda think thts all she can do lol still a fan of the girl)
16.Rosie Perze (I thought it was just for the singers, but she did make up all the Fly Girls dance moves and they were tight)
15.Omarion (Great dancing but I didn’t like his dance moves in icebox I thought it was kind of wierd)
14.Savion Glover (Tap dancing the best but come on now)
13.Ciara(Great moves she can do alot she can moonwalk)
12.Chris Brown(Flips krumping great but he aint smooth with it now)
11.Mya(Like a younger version of Janet Jackson have her style of dancing)
10.Bobby Brown(Use to be King of r&b)
9.Usher(Mr.Smooth he can dance like MJ and JB)
8.Tina Turner(Is the orginal Beyonce lol what I mean is that without her Beyonce wouldn’t be dancing like that
7.The Tempation(When it cold outside I think of the month May lol somethin like tht)
6.Stevie Wonder(One of the award show he was doing the one two step for real but im jk about the spot)
6.The Nichlas brother(One of the best)
5.Big Daddy Kane(To this day he can still do the moves amazing)
4.Janet Jackson(Best female dancer till this day)
3.Cab Calloway(Diffuntly another Mr.smooth
2.MJ(Thriller music video go check it out)
1.James Brown(The developer for Pop and lock)
Mike
May 1, 2007 at 10:10 PM
perfect J!!! although, why do i feel some1 is missin??? hmmm.. maybe it’ll come to me later.
Dustin
May 1, 2007 at 11:52 PM
@ #1 - I thought the same thing! She’s one of the best dancers (if not THE BEST) of our generation. She should be much higher. I wonder what cokehead put this list together…
J
May 2, 2007 at 12:38 AM
@Mike is it Amerie??
Mike
May 2, 2007 at 1:19 AM
Hmmmm.. maybe that’s it.
andrea
May 13, 2007 at 1:18 PM
beyonce CANT DANCE!!!!! and where the hell did diddy come from has anyone seen him dance?? he musta payed off da crackhead hwo made dis
philip shank
May 13, 2007 at 7:50 PM
beyonce is the best dancer on that fucking list along with usher if you saw when they danced togeter on ushers tour you would know go on to youtube and look it up and p.diddy cant dance worth shit hes so fuckin tackie
J
May 13, 2007 at 8:46 PM
@phillip shank omg i saw that they look so good wit each other i wonder y they neva got together or made track
i think my list fit lol but i love b but cici dance better then her but cici doesnt have the voice and the sex appeal lik b
Dustin
May 13, 2007 at 11:24 PM
@ #9 - Just because she doesn’t do those spontaneous “choreography” dances that anyone with beat and rhythm can do doesn’t mean that she “cannot dance.” As you can see from her videos, Beyonce CAN dance. Now, live? She doesn’t choose to dance as much live because she would rather sing LIVE … unlike some, if not, MOST artists.
WTF?????????????????????????????????//
June 23, 2007 at 7:08 PM
yall are tripping because beyonce can’t dance worth shit and diddy can’t dance worth shit and ciara is a overrated dancer shaking yo ass doesn’t count as dancing aailyah and mya will kill ciara in a dancing competition
Cedric
July 1, 2007 at 2:11 AM
Ciara should have definitely been higher on the list…Yes beyonce can dance but she’s not a dancer. Ciara lives and breathes dancing. Chris Brown should not have been above Usher. Janet should have been behind her brother, along with Tina Turner. On the 2007 BET Awards Ciara questioned her spot with the boxing jacket which had “25?” on the back?
Baby C
July 1, 2007 at 7:22 PM
Beyonce can dance,she just dance lady like!Yell woman do the same dance!YOU know you want shake your ass!You don’t have to be a hip hop dancer to be on top.
Layla
July 1, 2007 at 10:26 PM
WHOA This was aaaaaaaallllllllllllll wrong!!!!! Diddy!?! He is a horrible dancer. My girl Ciara should have been much higher, especially above beyonce!!! With the boxing jacket i was like dang Ci u bold. She did da dang thang, MORE POWER TO YA!!!!!!!!
Dee
July 1, 2007 at 10:43 PM
This countdown was supposed to be the greatest dancers of ALL TIME. Given this fact, how can Chris Brown even be on this list? He just came out like 2 years ago! And plus, people were doing his moves way before he was even born!! And how in the hell can he be put before Janet Jackson?! Most of the dancers on the list were around way longer than him! Here’s who should NOT have made the list: Chris Brown, Diddy (how much did he pay BET?), Ciara (learned from Janet), Beyonce (booty shakin don’t qualify as dancing), Prince (he doesn’t even dance!), Shakira (that hip thang don’t count as dancing), Omarion (moves ain’t too different from Chris Brown’s), Big Daddy Kane (how many people have actually seen him dance?), and The Temptations (good performers, but not bonafide dancers). Cab Calloway, Michael Jackson, James Brown, Alvin Ailey, Savion Glover, the Nicholas Brothers and Gregory Hines should have been on the top of the list. Janet Jackson, MC Hammer, Bobby Brown and Rosie Perez should have followed after. Aaliyah, Usher and JLo should have been after them. People who SHOULD HAVE made the list are Paula Abdul, Mya and C+C Music Factory (Everybody dance now!). This list is more rigged than games at an amusement park! When you attempt to make a list like this, come correct. You can’t compare these young dancers to the old skool ones. There is no comparison because they learned from the old skool! BET, if you ever attempt to make a “best of” list again, do some research.
Baby C
July 7, 2007 at 12:54 PM
I Think Beyonce should be in number 9 because Ciara can dance but she don’t dance hard with heels! It hard dance with heels.And Beyonce only shake her booty but she did other did you see her video like Deja vu,Ring the alarm in the vma awards,and check on it.She know how to street dance a little bit do u saw lose my breath!I think talk about the best performer,and performer wise Beyonce is better then Ciara,she can dance and sing in the same time ,can Ciara do that no!she lip-sing and dance!P.diddy was there because he use to be a dance before he was a rapper ! So Ciara was in last place because she can’t perform a good show as Bee.
BeBe
July 7, 2007 at 12:55 PM
I Think Beyonce should be in number 9 because Ciara can dance but she don’t dance hard with heels! It hard dance with heels.And Beyonce only shake her booty but she did other did you see her video like Deja vu,Ring the alarm in the vma awards,and check on it.She know how to street dance a little bit do u saw lose my breath!I think talk about the best performer,and performer wise Beyonce is better then Ciara,she can dance and sing in the same time ,can Ciara do that no!she lip-sing and dance!P.diddy was there because he use to be a dance before he was a rapper ! So Ciara was in last place because she can’t perform a good show as Bee.
CASSIE
July 28, 2007 at 6:06 PM
NO, BEYONCE CAN NOT DANCE, BUTT SHAKING IS NOT CONSIDERED DANCING. AGAIN, BEYONCE CAN NOT DANCE, AND SHE IS NOT A DANCER LIKE MICHAEL JACKSON, JANET JACKSON, CIARA. CIARA SHOULD HAVE BEEN HIGHER THAN BEYONCE, BEYONCE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ON THAT LIST.
Ashley
August 9, 2007 at 11:46 PM
Tina Turner should not have been nuber 19. Should should have been further down in the list.
Mack Slayer
April 8, 2008 at 8:20 PM
The BET list forgot one person . . . Jackie Wilson. He was the cat that Elvis and the other clowns go up to see him perform at the Apollo and they took it back downtown. Even Michael Jackson said so during th 80s when he was dominating everything in sight that Jackie Wilson was the Man.
Ash
June 13, 2008 at 9:25 PM
What about AALIYAH??? She even went to school for dance! I think she should definitely be in the top 5 her choreography was tight!!
And i agree with the rest of yall Diddy has no place on that list! When hes dancin in his videos it looks like hes having a seizure of he has downs syndrome or something!
Ash
June 13, 2008 at 9:28 PM
And the only reason they didn’t put Paula Abdul on that list is because she’s white. BET is the most racist network I have ever watched
DAVID
July 4, 2009 at 6:56 PM
WHY DIDDY ON THIS LIST THE GUY CAN’T MOVE TO SAVE HIS LIFE..and beyonce should last, where is Marcos Houston he a good dacer too plus Pula Abdul