Comments on: On-location dance videos online

On-location dance videos online

mark7570 — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:26:55 -0800

If you like dance but are stuck in a computer chair all day, you could do worse than watch some of these on-location videos showing people dancing for the sheer love of it. Folks from Brooklyn and India made BollyBrook (short for "Bollywood-meets-Brooklyn"), a music video featuring dancing in Mumbai. A 9-year-old girl dances in Tiananmen Square (don't miss her pas de deux with her father near the end of the video). A kid with the handle iTr3vor dances in the Apple Store (one of many videos in his series). And yes, Matt Harding probably helped start it all with his "dancing badly around the world" videos last decade.

P.S. Previously about iTr3vor. And here are MeFites in '08 commenting on Matt Harding.

By: dismas

dismas — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:30:05 -0800

That Chinese girl is my spirit animal.

By: mark7570

mark7570 — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:30:20 -0800

And forgot to list this: Girl Walk All Day (featuring one of the principal dancers from BollyBrook), a dance video set to the Girl Talk album "All Day."

By: stroke_count

stroke_count — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:40:49 -0800

Such a notoriously solemn atmosphere can only take so much unabashed cuteness, little girl. Must. stop. watching. Or my heart will cave in... Great link(s).

By: bewilderbeast

bewilderbeast — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:41:52 -0800

That girl's enormous grin is the most adorable thing I've seen all week!

By: sugarfish

sugarfish — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:47:19 -0800

Chinese hipster dad is awesome.

By: jessssse

jessssse — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:14:36 -0800

I shot this video of some girls dancing on a roof in Jodhpur, India, a couple years ago. Those massive speakers couldn't have been good for their hearing.

By: deadcowdan

deadcowdan — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:15:02 -0800

For once, a Youtube comment was worth reading: She's lucky to live in a country as free as China. Try to pull that at a US monument and the Park Police would bodyslam her.

By: the cydonian

the cydonian — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:45:14 -0800

The Bachna Haseeno video was surprisingly good; the remix was unexpectedly true to the tapori spirit of 70's Bombay (and consequently, 70's Bollywood) RD Burman's music and Kishore Kumar's voice notwithstanding, it's telling that the videos of both the original and the 2007 remake are significantly more garish and worse than this sweet narrative. _{(I, errr, might as well admit that I just danced to this song while opening the door for my wife, who just came back after a long day at work. Much merriment in an otherwise tough day for both of us. Thanks for sharing.)}

By: fairmettle

fairmettle — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:58:54 -0800

PedantFilter: That appears to be the Olympics site, not Tiananmen Square.

By: manny_calavera

manny_calavera — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:03:49 -0800

I remember seeing the shoot for the Bollywood song at Colaba Causeway in Mumbai. That time I was thinking.... "These foreign tourists are crazy!!!" Now I am thinking ... "Wow". Thanks for making my day

By: kmz

kmz — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:49:17 -0800

She's lucky to live in a country as free as China. Try to pull that at a US monument and the Park Police would bodyslam her. If she wears the wrong kind of headband though the PLA just might roll over her in a tank.

By: Breefield

Breefield — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:46:37 -0800

Girl Walk All Day is also responsible for some recent subway stripping shenanigans.