Girl Walk //
All Day (
previously), an epic dance video featuring Girl Talk's album
All Day (
previously) as the soundtrack, is finally
premiering at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on 12/8. Don't fret if you can't make it to the free dance party though, because the entire film is being released in 12 parts for free over the next six weeks starting today. Here's part one,
School's Out.
posted by carsonb
on Nov 29, 2011 -
14 comments
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.
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posted by mark7570
on Jun 30, 2011 -
12 comments
Produced by
a pair of Vaudeville comedians just as the Vaudville era was era was coming to a close, the musical revue
Hellzapoppin' became a runaway smash hit, and for a time, was the longest running show on Broadway.
It was a crazy quilt of frequently updated comedy and musical bits stitched together, featuring risque humor, fourth-wall breaking audience participation, skits abandoned halfway through, dwarfs, pigeons, clowns and Adolph Hitler with a Yiddish accent.
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posted by empath
on May 15, 2011 -
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Two minutes of worlds colliding: Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers'
Roadrunner and
Egyptian Reggae, as interpreted by house dance troupe Legs & Co. on Top of the Pops.
posted by item
on Oct 13, 2010 -
31 comments
"
Imagine, amid the grey serge of wartime France, a tribe of youngsters with all the colourful decadence of punks or teddy boys. Wearing zoot suits cut off at the knee (the better to show off their brightly coloured socks), with hair sculpted into grand quiffs, and shoes with triple-height soles - looking like glam-rock footwear 30 years early - these were the kids who would lay the foundations of nightclubbing. Ladies and gentlemen,
les Zazous."
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posted by Paragon
on Feb 8, 2010 -
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On the one hand, it ensures slow dancin' teens keep a safe distance apart. On the other, well, there's the sightline issue. Will it give geeks the nerve to dance with a partner? Covert Athletics presents
Pong Prom. Can
literally gettin' it on like Donkey Kong be next?
posted by GhostintheMachine
on Jan 26, 2010 -
12 comments
So You Think You Can Dance, the American dance-based reality show with
a very high viewership (and
more than 10 country-specific spin-offs) has a minor controversy brewing in their
fifth season: one of the judges,
Nigel Lythgoe, commented "I think you'd probably alienate a lot of our audience" after watching
a straight/gay male ballroom dancing couple. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
issued a call to action to contact FOX and Lythgoe.
Lythgoe tweeted more of his thoughts, but then went on to
apologise for all his comments. Additionally,
FOX issued a comment on how auditioners and contestants are reviewed. But none of this addresses the role of gender in dancing, though
Lythgoe has clarified his thoughts before: that men "need to be very strong. Dancing is role-playing most of the time. And you need to be strong and lift girls. You need to look stronger than the girl you’re dancing with." Specific roles are assigned by gender in many styles of dance, including
Square dancing,
Tango,
Poi, Haka, and many others. But there are opportunities for
gender-role free dancing, as with the
Lavender Country and Folk Dancers and
other such groups.
posted by filthy light thief
on May 23, 2009 -
56 comments
