It’s International Dance Day, what better way to celebrate than with Jennifer Lopez. Dance has been a staple in her life, performances and career. It’s evident in the over 20 years of music videos with countless steps, lifts, dips – and she never misses a beat. In April, the On the Floor performer released a montage of two decades worth of video clips on her YouTube page. In a little over two minutes, JLo relieves all of her music videos and her most iconic dance breaks.
© YoutubeFrom the first dance break in If You Had My Love, that set the tone for each video for years to come. To the iconic eight-count in On the Floor that the entire world knows. Jennifer does it all while the Mi Gente/Love Don’t Cost a Thing mashup from her Super Bowl performance plays.
The 50-year-old is many things. Singer, actress, producer, and TikTok mom, but we can’t forget where she started. As a dancer. For over 20 years, the entertainment powerhouse has danced her way across televisions, stages and even the big screen. Getting her start as a Fly Girl in the early 90s on In Living Color, JLo created a name for herself through the art of dance. Soon after, she took her talents to the stage and performed with one of the biggest names in music, Janet Jackson.
© YoutubeAfter carving a name out for herself with her solo career, Jennifer had one very different staple in her music videos, that has even continued 20 years later. Dance breaks. “Because I started as a dancer, I knew I wanted to do something different in the middle, do a different thing, do a different dance break” she told MTV in 2018. “And then we started doing it and it just became a thing.”
