MetaFilter posts tagged with dancing

Bollywood Gastronomy

tellurian — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:38:57 -0800

Kuchh Kook Hota Hai is an all singing, dancing (and possibly epileptic fit inducing) Indian cookery show (without much cooking), featuring two sassy assistants 'salt' and 'pepper'. To whet your appetite – Mutton Burger and Carrot Roll.

Get the (wedding) party started.

Hartster — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:38:05 -0800

This is how to start a wedding. Totally and utterly SYTLy, but still the best thing I've seen this week.

Utinni!

verb — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:00:42 -0800

Dancing with the Star Wars Stars. It's Vadertime.

The Videography of Michael Jackson

Lacking Subtlety — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:53:27 -0800

We had a great Obit post yesterday and a great post on the music video work of Michel Gondry. Why not join the two? After all, he was one of the great pioneers and innovators of the format and worked with some of the great film and art directors there were... Here's The complete videography of Michael Jackson to enjoy for your weekend. Actual videos inside: You know the drill. Some are classic. Some have aged. Some are silly. Some transcend the awesome. But no matter what, anyone can acknowledge that Michael Jackson used the music video to maximum effect for creative output, marketing, spectacle, and even some pesky world issues. 1979 "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough" by Nick Saxton "Rock with You" by Bruce Gowers 1980 "She's Out of My Life" by Bruce Gowers 1983 "Billie Jean" by Steve Barron "Beat It" by Bob Giraldi "Say Say Say" by Bob Giraldi "Thriller" by John Landis 1987 "Bad" by Martin Scorsese "The Way You Make Me Feel" by Joe Pytka 1988 "Dirty Diana" by Joe Pytka "Man in the Mirror" by Donald Wilson "Another Part of Me" by Patrick Kelly "Smooth Criminal" by Colin Chilvers "Come Together" by Jerry Kramer and Colin Chilvers 1989 "Leave Me Alone" by Jim Blashfield and Paul Diener "Liberian Girl" by Jim Yukich 1991 "Black or White" by John Landis 1992 "Remember the Time" by John Singleton "In the Closet" by Herb Ritts "Who Is It" by David Fincher "Jam" by Michael Jackson and David Kellogg "Heal the World" by Joe Pytka 1993 "Give Into Me" by Andy Moharan "Will You Be There" by Vincent Paterson "Gone Too Soon" by Bill DiCicco 1995 "Scream" by Mark Romanek "Childhood" by Nicholas Brandt "You Are Not Alone" by Wayne Isham "Earth Song" by Nicholas Brandt 1996 "They Don't Care About Us" (Prison version) by Spike Lee "They Don't Care About Us" (Brazil version) by Spike Lee "Stranger in Moscow" by Nicholas Brandt 1997 "Blood on the Dance Floor" by Michael Jackson and Vincent Paterson 2001 "You Rock My World" by Paul Hunter "Cry" by Nicholas Brandt "Ghost" By Apologies for any poor quality vids... there was... too... many links [lies down and takes nap]

Starts out kind of pathetic. Then it gets awesome.

The Devil Tesla — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:04:53 -0800

This is how you start a party. (SLYT) (via) The video is of a lone dancer at the 2009 Sasquatch! Music Festival (wiki while the site is down) slowly gathering a party around him. He is dancing to the song Unstoppable by Santigold Now all that's left is to ask this question: What kind of party animal are you?

Now watch us YOUUUU!

cashman — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:53:43 -0800

Last Thursday, USF & UCONN's baseball teams were stuck in a 5 & 1/2 hour rain delay during the Big East semifinals. What to do. What to do. BASEBALL DANCE-OFF! (12:16 video) They crank dat, there's some limbo, riverdancing, ticking, choreographed, solo - oh it's all in there.

So You Think You Can Define Gender Roles In Dance

filthy light thief — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:21:32 -0800

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.

Ziggy really sang, screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo

fire&wings — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:53:06 -0800

Of all the pretenders to the throne of "British Elvis" in the pre-Beatles UK music scene, none had the swagger or moves quite like Vince Taylor. His stylings, pitched halfway between Gene Vincent and Pressley, found success in the early 60's, especially in France. The man who Joe Strummer described as "the beginning of British rock'n'roll," was on the verge of stardom in 1963, but already hooked on a cocktail of Preludin, speed, LSD and alcohol, he instead fell apart. Believing himself to be the apostle Matthew or the son of God, he gave sermons on stage while wrapped in a white sheet, ate only eggs, and carried around a map of Europe, trying to point out to people where the UFO's would land. David Bowie, living in London in 1966, met and was transfixed by this already burnt out, drug addled heartthrob who had "fallen into a chasm too deep to ever climb out of." Inspired by the rock star who "thought he was some composite between the Son of God and an alien," he put pen to paper. The song? Ziggy Stardust. From the late 1960's it was all downhill, and although Taylor emerged sporadically for various comebacks, a few albums (including 1972's "Vince is alive, well and rocking in Paris") his later years were for the most part a blur of incoherent performances on small scale tours and periods spent in religious communes and psychiatric wards. He died in 1991 after a short period working as an aircraft mechanic in Switzerland. --- Vince Taylor: * There's a Whole Lotta Twistin' goin' on * Shakin' All Over * Peppermint Twist * Too Much * 20 Flight Rock * What I'd Say * Brand New Cadillac (audio only)

Filling me up with the shivers

fire&wings — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:26:02 -0800

Violin. Them Heavy People. Egypt. The Kate Bush 1979 Xmas Special (QLYT)

US Pole Dance Federation

ColdChef — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:11:09 -0800

US Pole Dance Championships 2009 (no nudity, but possibly NSFW) It’s significant to understand that pole dancing is not stripping. This misconception prevents pole dancing from becoming something every woman should be able to enjoy. Pole dancing is a sensual athletic dance form that demands coordination, flexibility and physical strength. Like the Jane Fonda workout combined with Cirque du Soleil.

Sharpies: expressing difference through a well-dressed thuggery

filthy light thief — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:35:50 -0800

"Normally subcultures in Australia are taken from other countries and just reproduced here. Sharps or sharpies are an Australian specific subculture, developed in Australian specific conditions." Sharpies were members of suburban youth gangs in Australia mainly from the 1960s to 1980s, particularly in Melbourne, but also in Sydney and Perth to a lesser extent. "Everybody was in a gang. Everybody. Every second street there was a gang. Um -- there was like you were either in a gang or you were the victim." The time of the sharpies is part of Melbourne folklore. Forget JFK. Where were you when Frankston erupted after the AC/DC concert in 1977? While the violence was legendary, so were the fashion and the music. Lobby Loyde and the Coloured Balls, Buster Brown, Skyhooks, Fat Daddy, Hush. And nobody danced like the sharpies (which resembles skanking of some sort). Anyone over forty who grew up in Melbourne has at least one story to tell about the sharpies (PDF). Some stories are about gang leaders with missing teeth and shit-eating grins, while others look back with some sort of fondness.

Dabke the national dance of Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Iraq.

Lanark — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:50:10 -0800

Dabke (in Arabic the "stomping of the feet") is a folk line dance, performed by either just men, just women or both together. A national dance of Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Iraq the Dabke is danced with different steps and rhythms in different areas of the Middle East.

Say groove, sucker...say dance, sucker...now move, sucker.

MaryDellamorte — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:30:01 -0800

Meet Frostie the dancing cockatoo. When I say he loves to dance, I mean he really loves to dance.

Does what it says on the tin.

You Should See the Other Guy — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:10:06 -0800

Dancing Japanese Street Gangs - mov

What Anchors Do During Commercials

Knappster — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:53:30 -0800

"WGN-TV weekend anchors Robert Jordan and Jackie Bange do a little dance number each Saturday and Sunday night during their telecast's first commercial break. Word is that it started out as a short 10-second dance, but now they have choreographed it into the full 2:40 of the break. "

Old school breakdancing

swift — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:48:15 -0800

Soviet Army dance ensemble + Run DMC = the invention of breakdancing in the mid-1900s. (slyt, via kottke)

Everybody Dance Now

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:16:10 -0800

Charlie Corcoran, Bagman of the Morris Ring, believes that Morris dancing (previously) may be on the "brink of extinction". This is what the world would miss. Not everyone is that troubled by the news, however - as assistant librarian at the English Folk Dance and Song Society Elaine Bradtke argues, there are more obscure types of English folk dancing, including (but probably not limited to) Long Sword dancing (a serious-looking dance), Molly dancing (not a very serious dance at all), Rapper dancing (the Welsh miner kind, not the hip-hop kind), Step clog (which needs no introduction), and the English ceilidh (aka barn dancing).

Old People Dancing

not_on_display — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:47:50 -0800

I just love to watch old people dancing. I hope that when I'm this old, I'll be able to do the same!

Ausgezeichnet!

miss lynnster — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:35:07 -0800

Now's the time in the 1974 Bundesliga new uniform unveiling presentation where we dance. Happy Monday! :)

Do the Wasteland Boogie

empath — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:51:54 -0800

Fallout Funk

Start your week with a bit of Bollywood, why don'tcha'?

hadjiboy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:18:15 -0800

Monday Madness Thanks to a suggestion made by UbuRoivas in another thread.

Dance like an indian

hadjiboy — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:45:40 -0800

You're my Love

Pehli Nazar (First Look)

Salaam-E-Ishq (Salute thy Love)

Tujhe Aksa Beach Ghuma Doon (May I show you around Aksa Beach)

Singh is King

Alexander Shulgin could save our planet.

gman — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:33:27 -0800

Bar Surya in London was the first. Now Club Watt in Rotterdam is recycling dancers' energy. Brought to you by the Sustainable Dance Club.

Hazel Eyed-Chic-Sleek-gorgeously glamorous twinkle Toed Charmer of the Silver Screen

bookish — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:58:41 -0800

Bollywood, the 1960s and 70s: "For years, the favorite setting for the big dance number has been a cabaret, with its atmosphere of forbidden liquor and sexual permissiveness, with its mixed audience of privileged Indians, industrialists, playboys, princes, and its foreign decadence..." And no one was more at home this exotic milieu than an Anglo-Burmese refugee who began dancing in films at 13 to support her family. Her pale skin and vaguely foreign looks, along with a collection of colored contacts and wigs, allowed her to play white women, Asian women, whatever titillating role was called for. She was Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls (part 2, part 3, part 4). The Merchant Ivory documentary is sometimes painfully condescending, but it has some great footage and gives a good primer on the phenomenon of Helen. Although she performed in hundreds of films and was quite famous and well loved, she never had success as a leading lady-- perhaps because she was too foreign or too provocative for Indians at the time to relate to. Mostly retired since the 80s, she still does occasional cameo roles. A few of her finer moments, courtesy of YouTube: Mera Naam Chin Chin Choo, from Howrah Bridge, 1958: The song that made Helen famous. Hum Kaale Hain To, from Gumnaam, 1965: A crazy comic/horror number, against glowing-eyed tiki statues and fog machines. Aa Jane Ja, from Inteqam, 1969: Helen lusciously taunts men in black-face (one of whom is actually in a cage) at a nightclub. Muqabla Humse Na Karo, from Prince, 1969: "Western" Helen has a spectacular dance-off with a traditional Vyjayanthimala. Piya Tu Ab To Aaja, from Caravan, 1971: Classic Helen cabaret. Breathy, drunken, and lovelorn. Mehbooba Mehbooba, from Sholay, 1975: Gypsy Helen dances for a camp of ragged outlaws. Yeh Mera Dil, from Don, 1978: Helen tries to seduce Amitabh Bachchan, who somehow retains his characteristic cool. Helen on Wikipedia; rediff.com profile.

Poppinpalooza

madamjujujive — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:51:49 -0800

Japanese-style popping is dope - check out u-min and dancers on the Polysics I My Me Mine. The girl, Strong Machine 2, was only 11 years old at filming. And let's not forget the classic display of popping in Late at Night. But beyond these dancers who've achieved some commercial prominence, check out a few fun and stylized Japanese popping clips from lesser known but great dancers. Of course, here in the US, we're none too shabby when it comes to poppers - David Elsewhere, Mr Fantastic aka Robert Muraine, and Houston's Phillip Chbeeb aka Pacman. And in Europe, dancers like France's incredible Saleh have been representing. For all your popping needs, from upcoming events and videos to forums and tutorials, you can't do better than West Coast Poppin, a really fun site if you enjoy or want to learn more about popping & locking dance styles. And tho I usually would eschew a link to wikipedia, it does offer a good historical overview of popping. If you liked this post, you may also like: Parallels Harder, better, stronger, faster