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December 18, 2010 9:03 PM Subscribe
Psycho Killer dance - Tengobaila sure does like improvisational, spontaneous, informal, interpretive, freestyle dancing ... and she has uploaded 857 videos to prove it, find your fave. (Via B3TA)
A selection:
Shattered
I'm too sexy
Kung fu fighting
You've really got a hold on me
You can't hurry love
Coconut dance
...and 850 more.
Bonus: the blooper channel.
A selection:
Shattered
I'm too sexy
Kung fu fighting
You've really got a hold on me
You can't hurry love
Coconut dance
...and 850 more.
Bonus: the blooper channel.
I don't think there is any thing I do in my life that I have that much feeling about.
posted by madamjujujive at 9:16 PM on December 18, 2010
posted by madamjujujive at 9:16 PM on December 18, 2010
The internet is a constantly astounding place.
posted by codacorolla at 9:17 PM on December 18, 2010
posted by codacorolla at 9:17 PM on December 18, 2010
Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.
posted by Nomyte at 9:33 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Nomyte at 9:33 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
Um, ... massive meh.
Lots and lots and lots of videos of her doing pretty ordinary club-level interpretive dancing.
Good for her for loving dance, and not sucking at it, but - why is this an FPP?
posted by IAmBroom at 9:39 PM on December 18, 2010
Lots and lots and lots of videos of her doing pretty ordinary club-level interpretive dancing.
Good for her for loving dance, and not sucking at it, but - why is this an FPP?
posted by IAmBroom at 9:39 PM on December 18, 2010
ah, heck... there are a million snarks that could be thrown here... but, the truth is, good for her!
I'm thinking that anyone who hasn't posted at least 800 dance videos on the 'tube has no room to be critical...
posted by HuronBob at 9:46 PM on December 18, 2010
I'm thinking that anyone who hasn't posted at least 800 dance videos on the 'tube has no room to be critical...
posted by HuronBob at 9:46 PM on December 18, 2010
One of the very best use's of the web: slightly annoying exhibitionists get to effectively scratch their itch without bothering the rest of us.
So "best of the web"...
posted by sammyo at 9:47 PM on December 18, 2010 [2 favorites]
So "best of the web"...
posted by sammyo at 9:47 PM on December 18, 2010 [2 favorites]
You know what, videos of women HER age dancing and doing it well - I can't imagine there's many. The first video, I went, oh NO! That's wrong. The second I looked at, I thought, God, I hope I've got her guts when I'm her... wait, I wish I had her figure AND her guts now! Good onya!
posted by b33j at 9:50 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by b33j at 9:50 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
I think most of us has danced our hearts out in the mirror when we knew no one else was watching, but she has the guts to record it and put it up online.
posted by MaryDellamorte at 9:57 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by MaryDellamorte at 9:57 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
Ugh, the faces she pulls...
posted by Dragonness at 10:07 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Dragonness at 10:07 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
Watching the "Psycho Killer" dance leads me to believe she would KILL at "Thriller." Also at an impression of a zombie and/or Frankenstein and/or mime.
posted by so_gracefully at 10:11 PM on December 18, 2010
posted by so_gracefully at 10:11 PM on December 18, 2010
discipline.
posted by palacewalls at 10:11 PM on December 18, 2010
posted by palacewalls at 10:11 PM on December 18, 2010
Dragonness, I give you guitar face.
posted by madamjujujive at 10:11 PM on December 18, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by madamjujujive at 10:11 PM on December 18, 2010 [2 favorites]
My, but David Byrne sings rather out of tune, doesn't he?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:20 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:20 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
I first came across Diana's channel a couple of years ago when I was looking to see if one of my favourite songs was available on YouTube. Diana, dancing to the song, was one of the first links that came up. She is a pretty remarkable woman - week after week she posts two or three more vids at a time and that's how she has accumulated several hundred of them on her channel. That is her original artwork hanging on the wall in the background. She also paints murals, and has a curious spirituality.
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 10:21 PM on December 18, 2010
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 10:21 PM on December 18, 2010
She seems to be having a good time.
posted by longsleeves at 10:54 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by longsleeves at 10:54 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
IAmBroom said:
Um, ... massive meh.
Lots and lots and lots of videos of her doing pretty ordinary club-level interpretive dancing.
Good for her for loving dance, and not sucking at it, but - why is this an FPP?
If celebrating a wonderful human being truly enjoying life is not enough of a reason, here are a few more:
She's talented. Her face, body and hands tell a story with every song. I'm no professional but I'd say she is well above club dancing. I'd go as far as adding "extra" to your "ordinary" and I don't think I'd be alone in that appraisal.
She's genuinely enjoying what she's doing. She's so in the zone she'd make Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi proud. And, no. It's not drugs:
"I don't smoke anything and dancing does not require it. Get real."
Her words, not mine.
She's determined. 862 videos and counting! As Pantera said at the end of Mouth For War:
"NO ONE can piss on this determination."
Talent + True Joy + Determination.
There are plenty of videos on YouTube that score one or two out of three but precious few that hit them all.
If you look through the sites linked on her YouTube profile, you quickly learn that she is a loving, tolerant and peaceful human being who values freedom and respects life. She's a rare commodity in this violent day and age.
All in all, her videos were refreshing and I am a better person for having "met" Diana Campanella through this wonderful (and totally worthy) FPP.
Thank you, madamjujujive!
IAmBroom, there are plenty of videos on YouTube that you should sweep away with your massive meh broomstick but, to paraphrase Ben Kenobi, *looks IAmBroom in the eye and waves his hand* these are not the videos you are looking for.
posted by stringbean at 10:55 PM on December 18, 2010 [2 favorites]
Um, ... massive meh.
Lots and lots and lots of videos of her doing pretty ordinary club-level interpretive dancing.
Good for her for loving dance, and not sucking at it, but - why is this an FPP?
If celebrating a wonderful human being truly enjoying life is not enough of a reason, here are a few more:
She's talented. Her face, body and hands tell a story with every song. I'm no professional but I'd say she is well above club dancing. I'd go as far as adding "extra" to your "ordinary" and I don't think I'd be alone in that appraisal.
She's genuinely enjoying what she's doing. She's so in the zone she'd make Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi proud. And, no. It's not drugs:
"I don't smoke anything and dancing does not require it. Get real."
Her words, not mine.
She's determined. 862 videos and counting! As Pantera said at the end of Mouth For War:
"NO ONE can piss on this determination."
Talent + True Joy + Determination.
There are plenty of videos on YouTube that score one or two out of three but precious few that hit them all.
If you look through the sites linked on her YouTube profile, you quickly learn that she is a loving, tolerant and peaceful human being who values freedom and respects life. She's a rare commodity in this violent day and age.
All in all, her videos were refreshing and I am a better person for having "met" Diana Campanella through this wonderful (and totally worthy) FPP.
Thank you, madamjujujive!
IAmBroom, there are plenty of videos on YouTube that you should sweep away with your massive meh broomstick but, to paraphrase Ben Kenobi, *looks IAmBroom in the eye and waves his hand* these are not the videos you are looking for.
posted by stringbean at 10:55 PM on December 18, 2010 [2 favorites]
Wotta sassy broad.
posted by louche mustachio at 1:05 AM on December 19, 2010
posted by louche mustachio at 1:05 AM on December 19, 2010
I wonder if the plan is to first become an icon, then sell the pictures behind her at ridiculous prices. Whatever, good for her, gotta admire the dedication.
posted by Vanifriss at 2:40 AM on December 19, 2010
posted by Vanifriss at 2:40 AM on December 19, 2010
Ugh, the faces she pulls...
I agree. She looks like she's posing for Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.
posted by Faze at 6:36 AM on December 19, 2010 [3 favorites]
I agree. She looks like she's posing for Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.
posted by Faze at 6:36 AM on December 19, 2010 [3 favorites]
I was really hoping she would do the jittery David Byrne moves that gave me nightmares as a child.
posted by benzenedream at 11:12 AM on December 19, 2010
posted by benzenedream at 11:12 AM on December 19, 2010
No. The best interpretive dance of Psycho Killer was done by David Byrne himself in Stop Making Sense. All the way from the tapping white shoes, the ghettoblaster with the click track, and the awesome bit where he follows his drunken random walk with a super sober stride back to the mike exactly on time.
posted by storybored at 12:16 PM on December 19, 2010
posted by storybored at 12:16 PM on December 19, 2010
stringbean: S'OK, I just don't get it. I'd certainly like being around her, and enjoying dancing with her, but ... it's just missing me.
(And thanks for the compliment on the size of my broomstick.)
posted by IAmBroom at 6:30 PM on December 19, 2010
(And thanks for the compliment on the size of my broomstick.)
posted by IAmBroom at 6:30 PM on December 19, 2010
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