Footage from Parris Goebel’s TikTok account for the Royal Family Dance Crew (left) and a picture of Rihanna’s Super Bowl performance. Tiktok and Youtube
- Choreographer Parris Goebel created dance moves for Rihanna’s Super Bowl show.
- You can watch an impressive rehearsal in a video shared by the Royal Family Dance Crew’s TikTok page.
- Over 14 million people have now seen Goebel perform the “work” choreography with the backup dancers.
Choreographer and viral dance star Parris Goebel is once again making waves on social media with rehearsals for Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show.
New Zealand dancer Goebel broke into the American mainstream with her choreography in Justin Bieber’s 2015 music video “Sorry.” Eight years later, she was one of the creative minds behind the choreography at Rihanna’s halftime show last weekend.
Goebel shared a minute-long look at the rehearsals in a TikTok video uploaded Monday morning. As of Tuesday afternoon, the clip had been viewed over 14 million times and had 2.8 million likes.
“Of course they have the royal family’s dance crew,” said one top comment on the TikTok post.
“This is how Rihanna should do it,” read another top comment. “Parris is killing this!!”
“I literally knew Parris was behind this masterpiece,” reads one comment, which has more than 59,000 likes.
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The video was shared with @RoyalFamilyVids, an account dedicated to the dance crew that Goebel has been collaborating with for many years. Her choreographic work with Royal Family has a recognizable style that often features meticulously dubbed group numbers just like those seen during the Super Bowl performance.
You can see Goebel perform with the Royal Family Dance Crew in this YouTube video from a 2015 World of Dance competition. This performance, which itself has 231 million views, begins with a remix of Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money.” Eight years later, on Super Bowl Sunday, it was one of the songs performed during the halftime show.
This wasn’t Goebel’s first Super Bowl experience — she was also one of the choreographers behind Jennifer Lopez and Shakira’s 2020 Halftime Show.
In her Instagram story, Goebel shared a message of gratitude for the support her father gave her as a child.
“None of us knew that 14 years later I would be doing the Super Bowl for the very artist I moved to in the back of his camp,” Goebel wrote.
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