YouTube video links...i.e., Procrastination
My lawyer is away for a couple days; he's at a hearing in Florida for a fraud case against a Canadian auto repair company. (On the trip being to Florida, not Toronto: 'I'm no fool!') Meanwhile, I've been cleaning off my desk and filing papers from projects past.
In keeping with the scattered attention and mercurial focus always produced by such a project, here are a couple YouTube links that I've been meaning to post.
1) I AM ON YOUTUBE!!!
A couple weeks ago, I was telling puzzledance about an afternoon of Norwegian couple dancing that I'd been to with Anna R. It was primarily dances from the region of Telemark -- the walking gangar and the lilting unevenly-triple springar -- and I was trying to describe the dance figures, which are common to both variations. At a loss for verbal descriptions of the figures, I decided there must be a video of the dances somewhere online. I searched, noticed the first result was a youtube video labelled 'telespringar' and thought that sounded perfect, clicked to watch it.... And you would not believe how shocked I was to see that it was the same room where I'd been dancing...and wait, was that asmanyaswill? THEN THERE WAS ME! Wow. On YouTube. Dancing! Never thought that would happen, and I never thought I'd be so surprised when it did!
So yeah, check me out! Scandinavian couple dancing has been a fascination of mine since I first saw the hambo like sophomore year of college and spent a year or two desperately wanting to learn it, until someone directed me to philochoros. Senior year of college, I went to a polska workshop one Sunday afternoon in Powelton Village and discovered there was more to Scandi than the hambo. I first hesitantly attempted telespringar at NEFFA last April, but it was the Sunday afternoon house dance featured in the above video when I first discovered how mesmerizing it can be!
2) Inspired by that success, puzzledance and I went surfing for videos of folk dancing on youtube when I visited her the next weekend. And we found St. Andrews students dancing Highland...to Madonna's Like A Prayer. No, I'm not kidding. Seriously. Just go watch the four-minute-long 'epic performance'. The hilarious part, imho, is that they're good dancers and have clearly put some thought into the choreography.
In keeping with the scattered attention and mercurial focus always produced by such a project, here are a couple YouTube links that I've been meaning to post.
1) I AM ON YOUTUBE!!!
A couple weeks ago, I was telling puzzledance about an afternoon of Norwegian couple dancing that I'd been to with Anna R. It was primarily dances from the region of Telemark -- the walking gangar and the lilting unevenly-triple springar -- and I was trying to describe the dance figures, which are common to both variations. At a loss for verbal descriptions of the figures, I decided there must be a video of the dances somewhere online. I searched, noticed the first result was a youtube video labelled 'telespringar' and thought that sounded perfect, clicked to watch it.... And you would not believe how shocked I was to see that it was the same room where I'd been dancing...and wait, was that asmanyaswill? THEN THERE WAS ME! Wow. On YouTube. Dancing! Never thought that would happen, and I never thought I'd be so surprised when it did!
So yeah, check me out! Scandinavian couple dancing has been a fascination of mine since I first saw the hambo like sophomore year of college and spent a year or two desperately wanting to learn it, until someone directed me to philochoros. Senior year of college, I went to a polska workshop one Sunday afternoon in Powelton Village and discovered there was more to Scandi than the hambo. I first hesitantly attempted telespringar at NEFFA last April, but it was the Sunday afternoon house dance featured in the above video when I first discovered how mesmerizing it can be!
2) Inspired by that success, puzzledance and I went surfing for videos of folk dancing on youtube when I visited her the next weekend. And we found St. Andrews students dancing Highland...to Madonna's Like A Prayer. No, I'm not kidding. Seriously. Just go watch the four-minute-long 'epic performance'. The hilarious part, imho, is that they're good dancers and have clearly put some thought into the choreography.