Comments | mdnitemarv: PBS: Ballroom life and racial sleuthing

mdnitemarv

PBS: Ballroom life and racial sleuthing

Feb 01, 2006 22:08

So tonight became a date with PBS. First, "America's Ballroom Challenge." Man, what a ton of fun. I watched most of it with Rosemary over the phone, and it was great watching those champion dancers do their thing. Mmmm, sexy dancer slinkiness ... With all the ridiculously chiseled, hot women wearing sequined bikinis and a smile, forget the Playboy ( Read more... )

tv, family, race

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beavergirl1977 February 2 2006, 05:24:54 UTC

OMG I wish I knew this was on because I totally would have watched it!

How exciting to have been in Gates's seminars @ Harvard! I can only imagine the thrill. I used some of his points in The Signifying Monkey in my discussion of black lit crit in relation to poetry and song. I feel like I needed his seminar to more thoroughly discuss these issues, but I am only a musician. ;)

I really wish I watched this!!!

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beavergirl1977 February 2 2006, 14:33:34 UTC

I haven't been watching much tv for various reasons lately, but apparently I need to be scheduling it in.

And if you love LaFawnduh, clearly you need to give me your tots!

wild_irises February 2 2006, 18:09:34 UTC

For someone interested in both ballroom dancing and (secondarily, but relevantly, racial politics), I recommend the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom about ballroom dancing for grade-school kids in New York City across a variety of classes and ethnicities. Okay, my 13-year-old niece is obsessed with it, but she does not have bad taste.

mdnitemarv February 2 2006, 18:53:35 UTC

"Mad Hot Ballroom" is cool stuff. I haven't seen it yet, but have seen a bunch about it. Very interesting.