Most moves in Stickography are danced standing up. The Worm isn't. And that made it harder than it looks.
What is The Worm? You lie on your stomach, push your chest up with your hands, and a wave rolls from your chest through your hips to your feet. Two waves per four counts. Everybody knows it, hardly anybody can do it.
Version 1: step by step The first version did exactly what the description said: first the chest goes up, then the belly, then the hips, then the feet. On paper it was right. On screen it looked like a caterpillar waiting its turn. There was always a part of the body lying flat on the floor, waiting.
Version 2: one wave The fix was to stop thinking in steps and think in one wave. Every part of the body rises and falls on the same cosine, each at its own moment: chest, belly, hips and then the feet. Nothing ever lies still, and the wave flows instead of stepping. The hands stay planted, and the elbows bend as the chest comes down.
Down to the floor and back The trickiest moment is the transition. From standing to lying down in a few counts, without knees sinking through the stage. During such a transition the hips now lift just enough to keep the knees above the floor.
A camera for a single move To judge this we built a small film set: any move can now be filmed close up from a three-quarter angle, without sound and without anyone playing. We then used that camera for every style.