Dance
Elvis and the Hollywood Vice Squad
I wonder what the Hollywood Vice Squad of 1957 would make of many a modern pop music show?
Original text here.
Original text here.
Original text here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 18, 2016 -
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Category: Celebrities, Censorship, Bluenoses, Taboos, Prohibitions and Other Cultural No-No’s, 1950s, Dance
Robot Ballet
The Italian Futurists had a thing for robot costumes in their dance performances. They left behind some weird imagery.
Read about them here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 17, 2016 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Futurism, Robots, Avant Garde, Dance, Europe, Twentieth Century
Yvonne Meier
I regret that I cannot find any relevant videos of Ms. Meier in performance. But perhaps these stills and text will suffice to convey her uniqueness. Spare no expense to rush to NYC to catch this act!
Another view of determination emerged on Monday, courtesy of the bold downtown choreographer Yvonne Meier. In “Durch Nacht und Nebel” (“By Night and Fog”), she keeps her audacious reputation intact, as well as her predilection for props. Here, they include a hefty mound of rubble, plastic eggs with baby dolls inside — she shoves them in her mouth — and Band-Aids. They cover much of Ms. Meier’s voluptuous, nearly naked body; as she shakes, they quiver, transforming her skin into scales.
Fearlessly morphing from one creature to the next — one transformation involved an orange bodysuit affixed with the plastic babies, and in another, she was coated in black paint — she exposed her aging body with aplomb.
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 14, 2016 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde, Dance
Jerry Lewis & Miss Cartilage
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 16, 2015 -
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Category: Humor, Surrealism, Sex Symbols, 1960s, Dance
Rosita Royce: Dance of the Doves
The YouTube host of this video complains that Rosita does not use doves in her dance, but other birds, thus misrepresenting herself. But as we can see from this article, that is a mere technicality, since Rosita was quite intimate with doves also.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 29, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Public Indecency, Sex Symbols, 1930s, Dance
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 17, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Exploitation and Grindhouse, Avant Garde, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Martial Arts, 1980s, Dance
Bohemian Dancers
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 26, 2015 -
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Category: Avant Garde, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s, Dance, Europe
Doing the Charleston
1927: 10-year-old Mildred Unger dances the Charleston on the wing of an airplane, while it's flying in the air.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 01, 2015 -
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Category: Air Travel and Airlines, 1920s, Dance
Muskogee Stomp Dance
The level of ritual fervor seems decidedly low here. Also, lack of vintage garb is rather incongruous. All in all, I suspect, a pale shadow of what once was a vital artform.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 30, 2015 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Regionalism, Dance, Native Americans
Apache Dance
I don't watch Dancing with the Stars. Is this kind of dance included? If not, why? It would liven up the competitions immensely, I wager. With signed waivers, real daggers could be used.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 16, 2015 -
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Category: Death, Sexuality, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1930s, Men, Women, Dance
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