What is the name of the Spice Girls' signature dance move?

The Spice Girls’ signature dance move is the “zig-a-zig-ah.” The phrase comes from their 1996 debut single “Wannabe,” whose chorus repeats “I wanna really, really, really wanna zig-a-zig-ah.” The accompanying choreography turned the unusual lyric into one of the group’s most recognizable pop-culture gestures.

“Wannabe” was the Spice Girls’ breakthrough song and introduced their “Girl Power” identity to a worldwide audience. Its energetic music video, filmed at London’s St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, shows the five members dancing through a glamorous party, with the zig-a-zig-ah movement appearing among the song’s memorable choreographed moments.

The phrase is sometimes treated as a nonsense hook, although the group has discussed possible interpretations, including a sexual euphemism. That meaning is separate from the dance move’s name. The other options—“spice shuffle,” “girl power hop,” and “spice spin”—are playful inventions rather than established Spice Girls terminology. A neighbouring fact often confused with this one is Sporty Spice Mel C’s athletic backflip, another memorable group-era move but not the signature move named in this question.