All Blog Posts Tagged 'dance' (16)

In what promises to be one of the most exciting dance performances to hit Scotland, contemporary choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and 17 Buddhist monks ages 10-26, from the Shaolin Temple in China, present Sutra. After a successful run in 2008, the show is back for two days, May 17 and May 18 at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Sutra blends martial…

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Australian dancer-turned-photographer Ingrid Endel has used her camera as a creative outlet ever since her dancing career was cut short, after 12 years of training, due to repeated knee injuries. Thankfully, the young creative found a new passion for photography that allows her to incorporate her love of dance.

Endel's powerfully poignant images exhibit a beautiful blend of…

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Australian photographer Lisa Tomasetti has worked as a visual artist and film stills photographer for the past 23 years. Her eye for cinematic drama comes through in her dance photography, a collection of images in which she is able to capture the beautiful elegance of ballet dancers set against the more rough, gritty urban city streets of Paris, Tokyo, and New York.

Dressed in…

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Some of the most gorgeous long exposures we've seen lately were taken just yesterday. These painting-like photos feature ballet dancers at the “Emerging Dancer 2013″ competition final in London. Photographer Leon Neal of AFP/Getty Images took these creative shots which show a handful of dancers gracefully moving across the stage.

Six finalists prepared and performed two…

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Choreographer Jonah Bokaer and Snarkitecture combine talents to create Why Patterns, a dance inspired from the musical composition by Morton Feldman of the same name. It starts off with a black stage and a singular ping-pong ball. Soon it transforms into a… Continue

Daniel “Cloud” Campos is more than just a dancer. The Filipino’s dance repertoire covers so many styles, it has brought him to the stage alongside Madonna, among many others. His creative mind is what brings dance to life in his video clips and what makes him, in my humble opinion, one of the most creative young people out there. His latest production, The Music Box, is a shining example of what he's capable of.…



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Are you seeing still shots from another, crazy OK Go music video? Not quite. These are actual performers contorting their bodies to form human sculptures. Bodies in Urban Spaces is performance art choreographed by Willi Dorner. These unexpectedly occurred on Sunday in different parts of lower Manhattan. Watch an older video of this type of art, below, to see… Continue

Choreographer Noémie Lafrance explores human movements in man-made landscapes, creating a performance language that interacts with the environment and the audience.



"Melt" features eight dancers perched on a wall and wrapped in lanolin costumes and sculptural beeswax. They slowly melt away, progressing in euphoria and exhaustion as if approaching the sun, which… Continue

Alex Andreyev is a very experienced graphic designer and artist with more than 20 years of experience. What is incredible in Alex's work is the clear surrealism influence with fantastic compositions ranging from trains with scorpion tales, endless stairs to heaven, flying cities and many more fabulous ideas.



These surreal artworks were created by Alex Andreyev, artist form Saint Petersburg, Russia. Unusual, creative and inspiring. You… Continue

One of the coolest and most interactive websites where people can pay tribute to the King of Pop has sprung up called the Eternal Moonwalk. By Studio Brussel, it's a website featuring a video collage of people performing Michael's famous move. You'll see everyone from dogs to babies to people with a…

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I've seen this video float around the web for some time now but only today did I truly come to appreciate it. This one lone fella just starts shaking it like no one's business and then suddenly others started to join him. One, two, three..and then a massive crowd followed.



Here's what Seth Godin had to say about it.



My favorite part happens just before the first minute mark. That’s when guy #3 joins the group. Before him, it was just a crazy… Continue

There is a cool Dance/Electro event tonight at Avalon in LA, with Tiga and LCD soundsysten playing.

15$ tickets can be purchased here:…

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Trailer for the upcoming spoof-licious comedy movie Dance Flick! Dropping February 6, 2009! Boots with the Furr!



Another Wayans Affair

This film be directed by Damien Dante Wayans, written by his uncles, the Wayans Brothers, and starring (I kid you not) Marlon, Shawn, Kim, Damon, Keenen Ivory, Craig and Damon Jr. Wayans, plus "might as well be a Wayans" David Alan Grier and Amy Sedaris (girl with eye twitch from Strangers with… Continue

Kraak & Smaak ~ Squeeze… Continue

Pilobolus takes creative dancing to another level. Here is a clip from Conan where they use shadows to trick your mind..





Pilobolus began as an experiment among three guys and one puzzled professor in a Dartmouth dance class back in 1970. It was survival of the giddiest, as the three non-dancers goofed around with the material they'd been given -- themselves -- and got entangled in science-inspired poses (think: "soft-belly protoplasmic thing") and movements.… Continue

A - How can you not have blogged about this already?

Or perhaps you have and I just missed it?

Anyways, I don't care .. I'm doing this!

/ahem (clearing throat) .. ready?

So like DanceJam is this awesome social net all about dance (the cool kind) rich in user generated content.

You can watch awesome videos (guy trying to liquid pop inside a… Continue