--- ---  # Watch Justin Timberlake's 'Cry Me a River' Come to Life in Mesmerizing Dance  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 1, 2017 8:55 PM UTC   by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 1, 2017 8:55 PM UTC [Justin Timberlake’s](http://time.com/4547396/justin-timberlake-jimmy-fallon-ironic/?iid=sr-link4) haunting song of heartbreak, [“Cry Me a River,”](http://entertainment.time.com/2011/02/11/top-10songs-for-loners/slide/cry-me-a-river-by-justin-timberlake/?iid=sr-link3) came out in 2002—but that doesn’t mean it ever gets old. On the contrary, it’s a classic deserving a comeback, this time in the form of a dance video in which a literal river of women take over an abandoned warehouse and bring the song’s lyrics to life. L.A. choreographer [Andrew Winghart](https://twitter.com/awinghart), who’s put together modern dance routines to other popular songs like [Kanye West’s “Fade”](https://vimeo.com/158110642) and [Lorde’s “Tennis Court,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vITxPVhVYYE) just released his tribute to the song. In the video, a troupe of 37 blue-garbed women and a lead male dancer act out the proverbial “river of tears” that Timberlake sings of with such passion, creating an undulating, flowing “body” of water, each dancer a finely-choreographed molecule in a larger current of movement. (Note: they may be in the _shape_ of a river, but they are not performing a traditional Irish River Dance.) Watch the mesmerizing video, above. Justin Timberlake Cry Me a River Dance Tribute VIDEO ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4656603/cry-me-a-river-dance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4656603/cry-me-a-river-dance/"},"headline":"Watch Justin Timberlake's 'Cry Me a River' Come to Life in Mesmerizing Dance","datePublished":"2017-02-01T20:55:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:41.184Z","description":"The Justin Timberlake classic gets a choreographed update.","url":"https://time.com/4656603/cry-me-a-river-dance/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music","dance"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23385ef8294962b4/6988b84d97cdff416d6af568/screen-shot-2017-02-01-at-11-33-54-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23385ef8294962b4/6988b84d97cdff416d6af568/screen-shot-2017-02-01-at-11-33-54-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"cry-me-a-river-dance","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4656603/cry-me-a-river-dance/","name":"Watch Justin Timberlake's 'Cry Me a River' Come to Life in Mesmerizing Dance"}}]}] ```