Mathilda’s solo
An evening pause:
Tag: dance
Issy Emeney – Appalachian Flatfooting
An evening pause: Issy Emeney doing some Appalachian flatfooting.
Wrecking Crew Orchestra
An evening pause: An entertaining combination of engineering, lighting, and dance.
Phil and John Cunningham plus others
An evening pause: To quote from the youtube page: “A live session from the 1991/92 BBC Scotland broadcast, featuring the Cunningham brothers from Silly Wizard, Charlie MacKerron and Donald Shaw from Capercaillie, Ian MAcDonald from Ossian and various members of the Rankin Family, from Canada.”
It’s all good, but stay with it for the Irish dancing near the end.
Duo Minasov – Quick Change
An evening pause: How about some magic?
Lindy Hop showdown
An evening pause: While our politicians fight it out in Congress, let’s watch a different kind of showdown.
Oklahoma-Many a new day
An evening pause: “Many a New Day” from Oklahoma (1955). It is the dance choreography here that is surprising and original.
We’re a couple of swells…
An evening pause: Fred Astaire and Judy Garland from Easter Parade (1948).
Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling
An evening pause: Fred Astaire, dancing on the ceiling, from Royal Wedding (1951).
Dancing robots
An evening pause: How about some dancing robots?
Hand Dance – Up & Over It
An evening pause: Hand dance by Up and Over it.
Vera-Ellen dancing to the Ocarina
An evening pause: Though Vera-Ellen made only a handful of films and is not that well known today, during the late 1940s and 1950s she was one of Hollywood’s top female dancers. Here she performs a delightful dance number from the film Call Me Madame (1953).
Julie Andrews singing Burlington Bertie from Star!
An evening pause: Julie Andrews, in her prime, had one of the most incredible screen presences of any actor in the history of film. Unfortunately, though everyone will agree that she has had a marvelous career, except for a few rare but truly wonderful exceptions (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music) I have always felt that her amazing ability to mesmerize an audience with a mere look was generally wasted in most of the movies she made.
Here is Julie in the movie Star!, which did not do well when released because it came out at a time (1968) when filmgoers seemed uninterested in entertaining musicals. Movies then had to relevant (oh that word!). She is playing a young woman whose deepest passion is to perform on the stage. This scene is her first real chance to do something solo. Stay till the end. Her first words after the she leaves the stage says it all. Unfortunately the versions available now cut that last line, where she so sincerely says, “That was wonderful.”