"I was thinking about the recession and what that meant for talented people who may have lost their jobs. Are you still a dancer if you are not paid to perform? Or are you still a chef when you don't have a kitchen to cook in? It is about people who walk the streets with this incredible skill who could just advertise their ability any time they wanted. Dance is always a part of them and they are always dancers"
Some dancers in everyday situations. Part of
Dancers Among Us.
(Via) Photographer Jordan Matter previously.
posted by djgh
on Aug 7, 2010 -
44 comments
Gandy Dancers is a fascinating and inspiring look at the music made by the African-American workers in the south who maintained railroad tracks, "lining up" the tracks manually. This hard work required synchronized effort, and the rhythm came from improvised songs. The film features a group of retired Gandy dancers talking about and demonstrating the songs they sang and the work they did.
posted by flapjax at midnite
on Nov 12, 2008 -
18 comments
Photographs of the dancers, actresses, cafe-life figures and prostitutes who were the subjects of Toulouse Lautrec's paintings, including such luminaries as
Sarah Bernhardt, "
La Goulue" (Louise Weber;
remember this?), and
Jane Avril, who was the model for
this last, iconic, Lautrec poster. View pages of the art matched up with photos,
here,
here, and
here, and
go to this page to rummage around in even more collections that include photos of Lautrec, his friends and family, street and location scenes, and lots of other tidbits.
[Spanish language site; NUDITY]
posted by taz
on Jul 5, 2007 -
10 comments
I'm no dancer, but I'm fascinated by the
Dance History Archives. The
index of dance styles is comprehensive, and the individual entries provide everything from history to related music links. (
Jitterbug,
May Pole,
The Watusi) There's a short
glossary, an
index of dancers, a voluptuous section on
burlesque (including some
great NSFW
pictures), an archive of
posters (
Josephine Baker!), and so much
more. The list of
Dancer Related Celebrities is pretty extensive (
Fred Astaire,
Rita Hayworth), although there's no
Jennifer Grey, so I guess Baby got put in a corner after all.
posted by OmieWise
on Feb 24, 2006 -
17 comments
