I Feel Like Dancing!!

A rare 6 minute video that actually shows recent era Grateful Dead "spinner" dancers that evolved over decades and was not what one experienced 50 years ago at say the Avalon Ballroom by early hippies. And yes, all those in that dancing zone are certain to be high on various drugs. Note I don't twirl with my own 3-dimensional freestyle dancing style that has more dynamic footwork like classic jazz or tap dancers.

Jack Straw Jam/Dead and Company/Dodger Stadium 6/11/2022.


There was a recent thread on hippie clothing where I noted, those styles are not what hard core followers here in the SFBA tend to be wearing or have worn for decades. This short video interviews a few folks with goings on in the parking lot about "Shakedown Street", including their clothing and vibe.

 
Those Georgian dancers were awesomely dynamic with their unique lower body style. That last dancer just explodes. My own dancing shares some of their form qualities of a somewhat quiet upper body minus arm/shoulder movements with most of the dynamic mass movement momentum maintained down below in rebounding bilateral footwork. The women with those floor length dresses are moving their legs unseen below like that also. Use a similar upper to lower body separation when turning skis. Of course, Irish step dancers and tap dancers use a similar lower leg dynamic to maintain a powerful mass momentum. That Black Sea coastal regions developed women with some of the worlds most beautiful facial features that are quite evident in that elite group.

I danced off and on for hours yesterday at the outdoor street fair and will be driving back up for day 2 in about an hour. Last of 3 bands I'll enjoy this afternoon is Dead Roses, a Dead jam band, sure to bring out some of their spinner dancers I love.
 
David777 said:
Those Georgian dancers were awesomely dynamic with their unique lower body style. That last dancer just explodes. My own dancing shares some of their form qualities of a somewhat quiet upper body minus arm/shoulder movements with most of the dynamic mass movement momentum maintained down below in rebounding bilateral footwork. The women with those floor length dresses are moving their legs unseen below like that also. Use a similar upper to lower body separation when turning skis. Of course, Irish step dancers and tap dancers use a similar lower leg dynamic to maintain a powerful mass momentum. That Black Sea coastal regions developed women with some of the worlds most beautiful facial features that are quite evident in that elite group.

I danced off and on for hours yesterday at the outdoor street fair and will be driving back up for day 2 in about an hour. Last of 3 bands I'll enjoy this afternoon is Dead Roses, a Dead jam band, sure to bring out some of their spinner dancers I love.
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I wish we could see you dancing!
 
gruntlabor said:
I wish we could see you dancing!
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You probably will some day after I open up my world publicly more, after I start 8k large display photography exhibitions that will also tie together my snow skiing and freestyle dancing.

Interestingly, yesterday while on a local 2 mile street exercise loop, stopped at a video game retail with arcade games club and for the first time saw the new Komina brand dance competition rhythm game called Dance Rush Stardom, aka DRS. Earlier during the last decade, rhythm arcade games like Dance Dance Revoltion aka DDR, became popular in Japan and Europe and are rapidly improving. Each new generation of the rapidly improving technology adds more features just like all the other video gaming genres. Of course, options allow different levels of play from easy, slow to very rapid. Note, all this is new to me although there are numbers of Youtube videos of people playing.

Apparently until recently, there were few of the $7k DRS machines at USA arcades, though such is rapidly becoming popular some places as it gives people a different way to dance to music than our culture otherwise allows. Many people, if not talented, are intimidated openly dancing in public. Something I aim to change, haha, by showing dancing can be exhilarating fun. People generally only view traditional opposite gender pair or group dancing as culturally acceptable. Earlier rhythm arcade machines had lots of machine failures just as odd arcade games like Guitar Hero, etc. With design maturity, such technology is increasingly robust. This 11 minute video explains what it is about, including some history:


At the nearby arcade I visited, a talented person was on the dance pad, so I watched awhile and then we talked. I don't play video games simply because, like TV, have better ways to spend my time and am generally ignorant of what is happening on post smartphone social media. There are at least a half dozen arcade game centers here in Santa Clara County (population > 2 million), so I am planning on checking out what is going on in those places.

I do like the footwork rhythm game concept as a superior way people might exercise versus say running on a gym treadmill while watching some news program. It forces visual cognitive executive control brain to motor control brain connections that due to neural plasticity, will inevitably result in a person gaining more athletic balance and movement skills via repetition. I'll speculate that in a few years, arcade machines of other music genres will arise that seniors will enjoy.

There are currently these kinds of popular freestyle dance styles 1. Breaking · 2. Popping · 3. Clowning/Krumping · 4. Waacking · 5. Afro Dance · 6. Street Jazz · 7. Locking · 8. Turfing. A lot of that goes on at EDM events and break dancing events. Of note, I am not impressed by what I see dancers doing at EDM events (from rave ecstasy culture) that tend to be in crowded standing room dark venues where people feel less intimidated looking awkward.

My own 3-dimensional style is distinctively different, especially since I don't do any of the herky-jerky movements and am rather continuously fluid and rhythmically bilaterally rebounding more like classic jazz era dancers or current shuffle dancing. But as with my snow skiing, am capable of fast lower body leg and foot movement.
 
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He's quite the dancer! (with a little help from the studio)
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"American dancer, actor, singer, and vaudeville comic Ray Bolger (b. Dorchester, MA, 10 January 1904; d. Los Angeles, CA, 15 January 1987), remembered by millions for his brilliant portrayal of the rubber-legged, straw-stuffed Scarecrow in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, was equally brilliant on Broadway."

"Through all of his long life Ray Bolger had been married to one woman, Gwendolyn Rickard, whom he met in 1924. She was a co-producer of Where’s Charley? on Broadway and remained a strong aide and supporter throughout his career. The couple had no children. She and her husband were often asked whether they received residuals (and in what amount) from the popular and frequent broadcasts of The Wizard of Oz on television. The answer was always the same: “Residuals? No, just immortality.”
 

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