Shake It Like Beyonce and Burn Mega Calories

Fact: I will never be able to dance like Beyoncé though I, like most everyone else, dream of being able to move my hips with her godly perfection. Instead, I’m the Taylor Swift of my friends, the girl who awkwardly (though I like to think adorably) shakes her head from side to side. Still, when the opportunity arises to learn dance moves directly from one of Beyoncé’s choreographers, you strap on your stilettos and go.

Luam Keflezgy, who is responsible for that shoulder-shaking opening number in “Run the World,” is also putting her moves on New York Fashion Week. She choreographed Athleta’s debut fashion show, a high-energy spectacle that included models doing back flips, running in the air on harnesses, and break dancing on the runway, all in the line’s bright athletic wear. She also gave us a dance lesson.

Turns out, there’s a trick to good dancing: just listen to the music. “Just kind of lose yourself in it because everybody has their own pocket, their own rhythm,” Keflezgy said. “If you sync in with the music, I promise always you will look good doing what you do well.”

And Keflezgy is an expert at making people look good—she’s worked with many pop stars including Britney Spears, Kelly Rowland, Alicia Keys, and of course, Queen Bey. Beyoncé, she says, is a “a very hard worker…people are sitting down, she’s up there still practicing.” And she’s always in stilettos. “She lives in heels. She definitely wants to make sure that she rehearses as she’s going to perform.”

Cat Manturuk, a dancer and personal trainer at The Sports Center at Chelsea Piers in New York City, said Beyonce fans could burn 300 to 500 calories by doing the moves below for about 45 minutes. Dance-inspired routines “help lean out the body because they focus on finer muscle groups,” she said, adding: ”You can dance everyday because it’s not like pounding the joints into the pavement.”

Of the opening sequence to “Run the World,” Keflezgy told us Beyoncé wanted “something really feminine and strong.” “In our culture [Keflezgy is Eritrean], just dancing with the shoulders, there’s this really, really powerful dance that the women do, and I just kind of brought my own mother to rehearsals!” she told us. Beyoncé got into the cultural inspiration, too. “She really took it on and embodied it.”

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