‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Cast on Creating the Iconic ‘Time Warp’ Dance

In this video, Tim Curry and the cast of 'Rocky Horror' talk about the iconic 'Time Warp.'

Transcript

00:00Well, the thing is, when we were doing the show upstairs at the Royal Court,

00:03it was only partly written, the show.

00:06Richard O'Brien was asked to bring songs in,

00:08and Jim Sharman said to him,

00:10I need a song that maybe you could do a dance to,

00:13and I need a song for you three.

00:15He came back the next morning with something called The Time Warp.

00:19And I thought, oh God, do we have to learn all that?

00:25If I'm right, it was just improvised.

00:28There was no choreographer or anything.

00:31It tells you how to do it, Tim.

00:34It's just a jump to the left and a step to the right,

00:37because we couldn't afford choreographers,

00:39so he had to tell us how to do it.

00:40And I thought it was ingenious to actually write down how to do the dance.