As John Sergeant gracefully retired from Strictly Come Dancing last week, he left a gaping hole in the lives of millions of viewers who tuned in to see loveably bad dancing triumph over glitzy ballroom perfection. Sergeant was the everyman of dance: the boozy uncle at your wedding reception, the gawky teen at your high school ball, the very embodiment of every one of us who rejoices in having two left feet. And now he's gone.

Well fear not dance lovers. Not only has the web preserved Sergeant's dancefloor triumphs for posterity, it is also jumping with innumerable other twinkling gems of balletic catastrophe.

The American show So You Think You Can Dance is at its best during the auditioning phase where contestants present their moves to a panel of pitiless judges. In a crowded field of no hopers and misfits, Rijiy Ames rises to the top, stripping down to his underpants for a solo that leaves nothing to the imagination. The judges can barely contain their hysteria. Through his tears Rijiy chalks up a victory for total enthusiasm over better judgment. See him perform at tinyurl.com/6pzlz3.

For its brilliant choreography, nothing beats the dance performance at the heart of the modern cult classic Napoleon Dynamite. The eponymous nerd performs an impromptu boogie of gangly perfection to Jamiroquai's irresistible ditty Canned Heat. Cinema audiences the world over greeted the scene with applause. Sheer magic at tinyurl.com/5msj98.

If you want bang for your buck, however, you should look no farther than one of the compilations of regular people falling down while dancing. A brilliant collection can be found at tinyurl.com/6479yx. What does that guy hope to achieve with his headstand on a chair? Did that bride survive her death leap into the arms of her groom? Does colliding with a mirror ball hurt? With only three seconds allocated to each vignette we may never know, but there is glory in the unbridled joy that prompted these dance moves. Moves which serve to inspire. Moves which would make John Sergeant as proud of us as we all are of him.

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