In the 20 years since “Crazy in Love,” high heels dance (also called “stiletto dance” or “heels”) has become a legitimate craze, with an explosion of classes and teachers across the U.S. “The foundation of my class is me being the girl that is terrified,” she says. Thinking back on how out of place she felt at the beginning of her career, Quigley was intentional about creating a welcoming space for all dancers. After 35 people showed up, she became a weekly fixture at the studio. Her first class was a trial run, she says. Around 2008, after encouragement from a mentor, Quigley began teaching heels dance at Los Angeles’ Millennium Dance Complex. To feel more confident, she asked her favorite hip-hop teachers if she could take their classes in heels, as a way to figure out how to modify the movement for her footwear.
Quigley continued booking jobs that required heels, including Beyoncé’s “Naughty Girl” music video, and dancing for Rihanna and Jamie Foxx. “Gatson was like, ‘Give me a leg,’ and I gave him a cheerleader heel stretch,” she recalls with a laugh. were a struggle, and Quigley says it was initially tough to overcome her lack of technical training. Rehearsals with choreographers Frank Gatson Jr. Quigley had never done choreography in high heels before auditioning for “Crazy in Love.” Wearing her mom’s thigh-high Harley-Davidson boots, she says, she felt like “a hip-hop girl gone wrong” at the audition. It was 2003 and Beyoncé and her group of dancers embodied confidence and beauty.īut for Shirlene Quigley, who was just 18 when she performed the “uh-oh” dance alongside Beyoncé, getting comfortable in heels took a lot of work. She drops low for a seductive, verse-long dance sequence on the ground, before being joined by a posse of women decked out in streetwear and, of course, high heels. Beyoncé’s iconic “Crazy in Love” music video opens with her fierce strut in pointy red heels down an empty street.
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