Directions: Fill in the blanks in the first 10 paragraphs of the article "It's a Worldwide Dance Craze, but It's Not the Real Harlem Shake" by Kia Gregory. Use your own words and phrases, or scroll to the end of the post to choose from a scrambled list of the words or phrases that were removed. Another option? Read, or listen to someone read, the original article first, then fill in the blanks from memory. Search YouTube for the Harlem Shake and more than 200,000 results pop up: a group of sky divers thrust their pelvises and pump their fists in a wild dance move ______ falling amid the clouds; members of the University of Georgia men's swim-and-dive team do _____ moves in their trunks underwater; Norwegian Army officers stand stoically in camouflage and berets ______ breaking into their version of the dance, all set to an electronic groove. There is a Harlem Shake puppy edition, a grandma edition and a stripper edition, inspired by a song from the producer Baauer that is currently in its second week atop the Billboard Hot 100 - thanks largely to this _____ of videos. The thing is, this worldwide dance contagion is not the Harlem Shake. The _____ Harlem Shake, a much more raw, technical, fluid, frenetic dance, was born in New York City more than 30 years ago. During halftime at streetball games held in Rucker Park, a skinny man ______ in the neighborhood as Al. B. would entertain the crowd with his own brand of moves, a dance that ______ Harlem became known as "The Al. "He would dance, and twist his shoulders," said his mother, Sandra Boyce, who is 69 and ______ in Harlem. Al. B., whose real name was Albert Boyce, died in 2006 at 43. He spent much of his life dancing, his mother said, "to every rhythm, and every beat, and every song," and he ______ his own popular style at the park. The Al. B. from there," she said, "______ the Harlem Shake." Many give ______ to one four-man dance crew, Crazy Boyz, for taking Al. B."s moves to the next level, ______ them enough for the mainstream. While some in Harlem today ______ taken offense at the rebranding and posted videos of their own in response to the YouTube onslaught, members of the crew ______ another shot at stardom, the kind that burns brighter and longer than a 30-second parody. "I'm not a hater," said Maurice Strayhorne, who is known as Motion and was part of Crazy Boyz. But it's bitter in the sense of, it's like they're disrespecting the whole _____ of dancing. He and his friends ______ the dance in the late "90s at the Skate Key roller rink in the Bronx, where they hung out and flirted with girls, and at Rucker Park, where they ______ Al. B. during those basketball games. "We looked up to a lot of his style, and the way he moved," said another crew member, Jesse Rutland, known as Smiley. The Crazy Boyz said they _______ their "shake" - spastic arm and chest movements - with Al. B."s style to produce the Harlem Shake. The crew eventually took the dance to the hip-hop world in music videos for artists like Eve and Diddy, only to watch its popularity ______. "It's also sweet," Mr. Strayhorne, 30, said of the buzz around the imitation version on the Internet, "because the name is bringing the Harlem Shake back up." "They made us relevant again," said a third member of Crazy Boyz, Joseph Collins, 32, who goes by No Bones. became style deluge lives combined while see real credit fade similar have watched known popularizing created before honed around For answers, go to the original article. Find more Times fill-ins by visiting our Fill-In category page.