Swing Your Partner A scene of Hadji Cheriff's gymnastic routine, 1894 RealVideo (streaming) MPEG Format (3.1 MB) Help With Video Credits Early Break Dancing These days the dancing we see on MTV is usually hip-hop, soul, and funk. You may think that those oh-so-cool hip-hop moves are brand new, but can you believe that some of them have been around since the late 1800s? A lot of dancing borrows many moves from gymnastics. In this film, a performer called Hadji Cheriff, of the Cheriff troupe of Arabs, performs a gymnastic routine with a series of one-armed cartwheels. Can you imagine what kind of music he used for this routine? page 1 of 3 Library Of Congress | Legal Notices | Privacy | Site Map | Contact Us VIDEO CREDIT: Dickson, W.K.L., producer, and Cheriff, Hadji L., performer. "Hadj Cheriff." Thomas A. Edison, Inc.1894. Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, Library of Congress.