There are too many legs in this talent show dance

There are too many legs in this talent show dance

A group of girls dressed in black and white confused and delighted audiences with their badly synchronised dance.

optical illusion
The dance turned out to be an optical illusion./YouTube

The best way to make your mark at a high school talent contest is to give the audience something that will not only grab their attention, but also get them talking about for the rest of the night. If you can do that while also making everyone scratch their heads to figure out what on earth they just watched, then you are a shoo-in for the finals. 

Take this odd synchronised dance that was performed at a school in the Czech Republic, for example. The group of girls shimmies onto the stage standing shoulder to shoulder dressed in black and white. They look like piano keys and it is not clear what exactly their routine is going to be about - until the music starts. 

The girls take a few steps forward and a few steps back, trying their best to keep up with the routine and with the beat of the music. But this is no ordinary dance: each girl can only use one of her legs at a time, so that is either a black-stockinged or a white-stockinged limb that is performing the steps.

Watching the weird dance is as baffling as it is strangely satisfying. How is it that neither of them is stumbling or falling down? 

Believe it or not, this is not the first time a group has attempted to fool and enchant audiences with this oddly synchronised dance. Seven talent show contestants in Washington performed a similar routine to songs such as "Eye of the Tiger" and "Can't Touch This".

The audience was in stitches as the women, who kept straight faces throughout, performed the crazy dance. It may be difficult to keep track of which legs belong to whom, but it's clear that the dancers are having the time of their lives on the stage. 

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