Tim “Randm” Salaz – Modern dance
An evening pause: As one commenter on youtube said, “This guy’s body must be fully made of water.”
Hat tip Dave McCooey.
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You would think a skilled person like that would be able to afford some decent clothing.
David Eastman: Heh. I remember watching this and thinking, “He’d really look better wearing a tux and tails, like Astaire.”
So-called “Hip Hop Culture” is mostly a sartorial and musical disaster, but the numerous dance forms it has spawned are magnificent in their originality and rigor – worthy successors to early and mid-20th century dance pioneers like Bojangles, Berkeley, Astaire, Kelly and Fosse.
This is one of those things that amazes you, for a minute. Then the repetitiveness and awful music hit you.
That was called “Poppin” in the 80’s
That or the marionette handler was having a grand mal.
Animators.
If you were or are a fan of So You Think You Can Dance, you are very familiar with this dance style.
Beautiful, and hypnotic, horrific and terrifying. It is an amazing dance form. The “isolations” involved require extreme muscle control.