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UK PM goes full ‘RoboMay’ in awkward dance with students during South Africa visit

Prime minister attracts mixed reviews for her tentative dance steps

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British Prime Minister Theresa May dances with pupils during a visit at the ID Mkhize High School in Gugulethu, Cape Town. Photo: AP
The Washington Post

Some of Theresa May’s critics already call her “RoboMay” claiming the British prime minister moves so awkwardly that she comes off as robotic.

So it isn’t shocking that the South African government tweeting a video clip of her dancing with students in Cape Town on Tuesday slightly overshadowed her trade-focused trip to South Africa.

In the video, she stiffly moves back and forth as a group of children dances across from her, her leopard-print shoes tapping this way and that.

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The short clip became a Twitter moment, with social media users calling her moves “dad dancing” and “painful”.

“Theresa May dances like she’s had her freedom of movement surgically removed,” one user wrote.

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