 A profile for local public radio station KWMU described it as "the most awkward, yet intense version of the "white man dance" you've ever seen".Matonis almost always dances alone, and his dancing style does not change according to the genre of music at the concert.Though he started dancing in 1975, Matonis cites the main inspiration for his solo dancing as observing a friend dancing compulsively at a Dwight Twilley concert in 1975.