--- title: Serena Williams Gives Twerking Lesson description: Serena Williams gave a step-by-step guide to twerking, which she previously showed off in the video for Beyoncé's "Sorry" canonical: https://time.com/4438662/twerking-serena-williams/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-04T14:52:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:05.149Z og:title: Watch Serena Williams’ Step-By-Step Guide to Twerking og:description: The tennis star broke down her dance moves og:url: https://time.com/4438662/twerking-serena-williams/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltccf3ff59abd57d80/6988a11a656a3f721cbcca06/serena-williams-twerk.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1781 og:image:height: 1002 og:image:alt: serena-williams-twerk og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Serena Williams’ Step-By-Step Guide to Twerking twitter:description: The tennis star broke down her dance moves twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltccf3ff59abd57d80/6988a11a656a3f721cbcca06/serena-williams-twerk.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Serena Williams’ Step-By-Step Guide to Twerking > Sponsored content. 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Aug 4, 2016 2:52 PM UTC  Serena Williams Serena Williams SELF by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 4, 2016 2:52 PM UTC Serena Williams, the world’s No. 1 women’s [singles tennis player](http://motto.time.com/4398046/serena-williams-nipples-wimbledon/), has served up a lesson in twerking. In between winning [22 Grand Slam titles](http://time.com/4399873/serena-williams-angelique-kerber-wimbledon-final/) and traveling to Rio de Janeiro to compete in the 2016 Olympics games, Williams broke down the dance, step-by-step for [SELF Magazine](http://www.self.com/lifestyle/2016/08/serena-williams-september-cover-interview/). The tennis star, who had a cameo twerking in the video for “Sorry” on [Beyoncé’s _Lemonade_](http://time.com/money/4361495/beyonce-lemonade-platinum-sales/), showed how she puts her dance moves together. “Everyone does twerking, everyone should at some point do a twerk,” Williams said in the video. For the best results, Williams recommended slightly bending the knees, keeping a tight abdomen and arching the lower back. “Slowly slide down, and twerk, and twerk,” Williams said, concluding the lesson. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4438662/twerking-serena-williams/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4438662/twerking-serena-williams/"},"headline":"Watch Serena Williams’ Step-By-Step Guide to Twerking","datePublished":"2016-08-04T14:52:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:05.149Z","description":"The tennis star broke down her dance moves","url":"https://time.com/4438662/twerking-serena-williams/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltccf3ff59abd57d80/6988a11a656a3f721cbcca06/serena-williams-twerk.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltccf3ff59abd57d80/6988a11a656a3f721cbcca06/serena-williams-twerk.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"serena-williams-twerk","caption":"Serena Williams","creditText":"SELF","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/4438662/twerking-serena-williams/","name":"Watch Serena Williams’ Step-By-Step Guide to Twerking"}}]}] ```