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Another Dance Controversy: Hip Hop Crews on Trains

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The other day on BART, three young hip hop dancers looking like street thugs started dancing and passing a hat. They weren’t great, but they weren’t bad either. And they were doing something joyful that took skill and not a little hard work and practice, for the pleasure of onlookers. For money, yes, but […]

And ANOTHER Use of Dance for the Public Safety

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I think this might be my favorite example yet of using dance to save people from themselves. In the spirit of using fun to get people to change negative behavior, (and what can be more fun than dancing?) the dancing traffic light was an idea to see if people would resist the temptation to […]

The Fat Dancer “Controversy”

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I’ve written a few past posts about fat dancers and was inspired to write again on the subject by a show in Australia featuring a cast of obese dancers. What caught my interest, aside from the obvious fact of how unusual this is, was the director’s comment that such a show shouldn’t be, but is, […]

Do You Have to be a Dancer to Make a Marionette Dance?

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Last week I posted on Appalachian dancing dolls and promised a follow up post on Dancing puppets. Making a marionette look real is a real and fascinating art. The dolls themselves are amazing works of art and the puppet masters are true masters of illusion. When a puppet dances, does that mean a dancer […]

Art, Percussion, and Dance

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Music and dance go hand in hand, but sometimes the dance IS the music, or at least part of it. The most obvious example of this is tap dance, where the dance creates the percussion. Tap is the perfect blend of music and dance because the dance is part of the music. Watch how […]

Using Dance to Make a Point

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Dance can be a powerful motivator. It’s energetic and engaging and keeps people’s attention. I’ve talked about how much I enjoy the creative use of dance in advertising, but it’s also used to make people think, to inform, and to combat apathy. One of my favorite examples is Rock the Vote. These guys make […]

A New Take on Disability and Dance

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I’ve written in the past about dance troupes like Axis that feature dancers in wheelchairs performing with able bodied dancers, blind and deaf dancers, and a hip hop crew composed entirely of physically challenged dancers. This is a subject near and dear to my heart because of my background in working with people who live […]

Yep! Another Great Use of Dancing in Advertising!

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I love it when advertisers use dance in creative ads. I couldn’t get enough of the delightful Evian dancing baby ads and wrote about them, thinking it would be the last one when they’d come up with another that I just had to share. Sainsbury’s is a British clothing store and I give high […]

Dancing for Seniors

Connecting Socially , dance videos , dancing for joy , dancing in the golden years , dancing with physical challenges , inspirational dancing , Learning dance , social dancing

Let’s Dance A short article in United Health Care’s Magazine Renew entitled “Let’s Dance” reminded me to take up this subject again. There has been much research on the subject of the best exercise for aging bodies, and dance keeps coming up number one. Dance if it brings you joy Of course, I still […]

Dancing In Inappropriate Places

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Dancing makes people smile. My vision statement has to do with a world in which people break into spontaneous dance in unexpected places and occasionally I like to blog about occasions where that happens already. Great examples of inappropriate dance Nothing makes me happier than seeing evidence of people dancing with abandon in “inappropriate” places. […]

Why Do Dancers Like Flash Mobs So Much?

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In this charming video a group of swing dancers gather around a street orchestra to perform a charleston routine. It’s a simple routine that repeats, they do it well, and they are enjoying themselves immensely. It’s a great choice for a flash mob because for swing dancers it wouldn’t take long to learn. They know […]

The Complexities of Finger Snapping to Music

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I’ve written previous posts on White Man’s Clapping Syndrome, but even if you can clap to the beat, do you know on which beat to clap? Jazz dancers clap on the upbeat I’ve heard it said that black people clap on the upbeat and white people clap on the downbeat. Or that jazz dancers of […]

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