Richy Jackson Knows You Don't Get Jojo Siwa's Viral Dance Move

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but you definitely know his dance moves. The choreographer and visual director has worked with all your favorite main pop girls—, , and to name a few—making him the mastermind behind some of the most influential music videos of the past two decades.With a resume that includes songs like “” and “,” Jackson has a knack for creating hit choreography for hit music and has done it again with emerging pop star .

The Dance Moms star is all grown up with a new single “,” which has gone viral for its, . You may have seen clips of Siwa on your timeline hitting the song’s signature dance move—two foot stomps punctuated by whipping hand movements and a full body gyrate—in its .

Or performing on stage at , , , and . Or during a taping of .The dance move is emblematic of Siwa’s new adult era: audacious, provocative, and in her words, “.” It’s also the kind of out-of-this-world choreography that Jackson is known for.

So when we hop on a video call for our interview, it’s only appropriate that the choreographer’s Zoom background is set to outer space.“If you've seen the video, she had been dreaming of this white party on a yacht,” Jackson says of the “Karma” video. “But Jojo’s like, ‘I'm going to do it my way.’ So once I understood the yacht party, I thought it would be so cool to dance out this relationship between JoJo and her girl, but also there's the other girl enticing her.