Dance: Fabulous solo in airport: Dance like nobody's watching

How I love such artists — dancers, musicians, sometimes even singers who brave these austere over-busy environments and manage somehow to present wonderful performances.  Even if primarily for videos on YouTube and such.  By the way, this dance video got about 4 and a half million video hits as of today's date.  Music: You never call my name on the telephone (original by The Black Angels below).

— Musikos, refWrite Backpage dance newspotting, analyst, columnist


YouTube (Jan14,2k13)


Here's The Black Angels version — on a rooftop!  It appends a lot of interview stuff with Billboard, for whom the take was made.

YouTube (Jan14.2l13. original 2010)  video hits 80,977 to date

Music: Mike Song and KRNFX: The Dancebox

This is the perfect wedment of dance and sound, both human disciplines that are here inter-fused by two genius performers, Mike Song (dancer-choreographer in much a breakdance style, as I take it) and Terry Im aka KRNFX (Korean FX).

— Musikos, refWrite Backpage 

music newspotter, analyst, columnist

Published on Dec 9, 2012

DANCE + BEATBOX = THE DANCEBOX

An experimental collaboration between dance and beatboxing.
Recorded and performed live. It was so much fun to brainstorm with KRNFX and actually dig into the process of where you want the music to go...

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Conceptualized, Created, and Performed by: 

Mike Song and Terry "KRNFX" Im

Filmed/Edited by: Jonathan Shih
Sound by: DJ Zo
Special Thanks: Danielle Lee, Tigran Tovmasyan, Louis Trinh, Andrew Hong, and Factory LA

Can you guess what the story is?

Folkloric and Religion-sponsored dance by young church members Hungarian Reformed

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YouTube - ‪International Fest: Hungarian Reformed Church dancers‬‏

Folkloric and Religion-sponsored dance by young church members Hungarian Reformed

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YouTube - ‪International Fest: Hungarian Reformed Church dancers

I'm at least a sociology hobbyist, and in these dances I see a good-natured church consistory (parishes' elders) decided what mixing of boys and girls, young women and young men, the intergenerationality, the more and less success in giving a trim performance ... but the good spirit and actually the demonstration  of a religious communal identity in socializing and in physical performance.  Dancing that good suggests participation in the Reformed Church dance group, a class perhaps once a week and then perhaps a week away from other studies and duties, to work more intensively in shaping up their readiness for a performance.  Or tour.  As these particular non-performers did wonderful amateur — but not fantastic.   There were moments when images of circles of girls and young women — sororities!  The destiny of the line of young men (short to tall) facing the line of young women (again, sort to tall) — for the sorority there comes a breakdown, a breakdown of sorority, as the edge of the mating dance brings the women fact to face with the men,  upclose and ritual, a silent undertone comes to the surface suggesting the narrative source is the courting dance of the ancient clans of free-choice marriage.  Perhaps  Magyars and Germanics of the Hungarian Reformed Church, but I am noting from the standpoint of my hobby that at least one of these dances was brawt into the dancing canon by the elders and pastors of Hungarian Reformed Church at a certain point, or period of time.  Whether from far earlier provenance or choreographed just so for the show, a few moments of joyous and artistically-disciplined popular culture indigenous to at least one parish of the Reformed Church in Hungary. ‏

Music / Dance: Vidclip: I believe she's amazing -- celebrates women

Hat Tip to Steve Bishop's Reformational Daily

Arts: Fred Astaire, a consummate dancer of the Movie Age

There's a new book out, being a biography of Fred Astaire the dance work of whom, in the comic vein mostly, set a dance-aesthetics standard that still holds. His dances, a body of artistic work from one dance routine to the next in a given movie, and from film to film, these choreographic accomplishments remain somehow normative today because of old movies that still dazzle us with his showmanship. His work was slanted by the mass-communications medium of the cinematographic camera's angle. He danced to the camera's eye for the future ticket-purchasing audience of each movie, and often gently deconstructed himself in his role, larger than any role in a movie, as big as life. Leading male dancer in the early movies which were viewed in movie theatres, Fred Astaire is an entertainer par excellence; and he became a bon vivant.

A fine boildown of an important theme of Jason Epstein's new book, Fred Astaire (Yale University Press), was recently recently posted on the American Heritage website. Jason Epstein, "Like kissing your sister: the sibling partnership that launched Fred Astaire into stardom" (posted Oct28,2k8).

In noting how important Adele Astaire was, we underscore an axiom of dance aesthetics -- at least of the dancer business and profession -- that we have to say male dancer or female dancer when we indulge ourselves in ranking the stars of movie dance and dance movies. The instant I think of Astaire's female partners, once he got into the movies, it's Ginger Rodgers who stands out, to my mind. She played with Fred in several memorable storyline dance-movies (really a form of "musical," carried over the top by fancy footwork).