What are some fun and easily applicable ways/moves to move your
arms to dance to a song you’ve never heard of? I’m practicing
loosening up by just turning on songs in my dorm room and dancing
however the fuck I feel like it but I notice my arms look especially
retarded.

I imagine there must be key words I should search on youtube because “arm
dance” just brings up fuckin weird dances specifically for just arms.

Hi,
First of all it depends on what music you like. Is it intense, heavy or rapid music you can dance like it with fast and strong moves.
The opposite with slower music, the dance becomes more technical.

You can search some moves on youtube, but I'll try to help you.
Try using, how to dance to x
X depends on the music genre..

I love many kinds of music but the most of al it's hip hop and dubstep. I also used to dance hip hop and New style so maybe you can try finding a dance class! Btw the there are a lot of girls!

Maybe some moves that can help you! try searching for: Tutting, popping, gliding, sliding, waving,

Greetz! Hope I helped

You could try techtonic, a dance to technotic music and movement with arms. But depends on the music you like I guess.

Try tutting, hehe

Tektonik is cool but a bit gay.

Tutting is VERY cool but takes a long time to make it look good (and still looks kinda weird).

Keep it real simple at first.
Rock to the beat with your body.
Then bring your arms into it, experiment and see what looks good.

Try:
bouncing your shoulders (like shrugging, one at a time then both)

push elbows out (one at a time), like you're elbowing someone next to you

pretend like you're bouncing a ball (the up/down motion of the arm, keep it around torso level) - alternate hands, and then use both, cross them over each other etc)


pretend there is a box in front of your chest at around arms-length, you've got 4 corners high+low/left-right
keep your hands flat and sort of "jab" the corners with your fingertips.
then just mix it up eg
both hands top / both hands bottom / 1top-1bottom (then switch that back forth)
^this is foundation arm movements for Shuffling

OR what I do naturally when I'm just grooving is keep your hands up almost in a fighter's stance (but have your hands open) you can rock with this, you can also keep your arms loose but still hold them up.

Remember all these moves you do in time with the music, in rhythm what whatever style of music you're dancing to. Find your groove

or you could do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pekj-yTE6JY