Shall we dance?

[Vikrant]

I noticed we have quite a few threads on songs but none on dances. So I decided to open this thread to share all sorts of dances that us humans have come up with over the centuries. You can post any type of dance from any culture or language in here.

Let me get us started with this:

 

[bayoubill]

I noticed we have quite a few threads on songs but none on dances.

you've apparently overlooked my threads regarding this subject...

granted, these threads are buried in the back pages...


anyhow... thanks for resurrecting the subject...

here's my first contribution to your thread...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3RSlUkw9U0]Cheek to Cheek - Fred and Ginger - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Gracie]

I noticed we have quite a few threads on songs but none on dances.

you've apparently overlooked my threads regarding this subject...

granted, these threads are buried in the back pages...


anyhow... thanks for resurrecting the subject...

here's my first contribution to your thread...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3RSlUkw9U0]Cheek to Cheek - Fred and Ginger - YouTube[/ame]

Good thing I read this first cuz I was fixing to head to youtube and bring this same vid that you did!

 

[Vikrant]

bayoubill,

Thank you for sharing! I am glad I started this thread. I hope folks would share their favorite dances in here.

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Hoop dancing is one of the most natural form of dancing. So let me post a good video on this:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhE8W4Jo88I]Futuristic hula hoop girl - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

how 'bout drunk guys dancing on the backs of horses...?

here's a video from Mardi Gras a coupla years ago from my wife's hometown...

'bout an hour's drive from where I live...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQpU5v55DCs]Mamou mardi gras 2010 - by HCProductions.org - YouTube[/ame]

 

[The Professor]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ]Singing In The Rain - Singing In The Rain (Gene Kelly) [HD Widescreen] - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

everybody, young and old, dances down here...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KzudadmnyU]Cajun - The Jambalaya Cajun Band - Cajun Dancing - YouTube[/ame]

 

[The Professor]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYIf41yel7w]Donald O'Connor: Me and My Shadow - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

how 'bout some Zydeco...? Cajun music's dark-skinned Creole cousin...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB9SJ3kH3Fw]Harold on Louisiana Zydeco Live - 6 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

An excellent idea for a thread.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiE17pvisBg]Conwy Castle Medieval Dance - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRwFn9r2ovY]Court Dance from Shakespeare in Love - YouTube[/ame]

 

[editec]

Dancing starts at 1:19

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVasewV7OpA]All That Jazz - "Jagger & Gideon!" - YouTube[/ame]

 

[konradv]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqJPpnhwp7M]White Rabbit Tango - YouTube[/ame]

White Rabbit Tango

 

[Vikrant]

Here is rural dance from Bollywood. (Ignore the translation. It is shoddy.)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j92S2GOXLfE]Dushman - Maine dekha tune dekha - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Vikrant]

Let us do some C-Walk this evening.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgZvxhGr7kc]C-Walk TournyBattle Round 2 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[BlueGin]

[ame=http://youtu.be/5drud8keiq8]Jennifer Grey & Derek Hough - Cha-Cha-Cha - YouTube[/ame]

Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough


[ame=http://youtu.be/7Y0TWOttkVo]Patrick Swayze & Wife Dancing At World Music Awards 1994 - YouTube[/ame]

Patrick Swazye and Lisa Niemi

 

[bayoubill]

from the movie White Nights...

music by Lou Reed...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02EvsGal-Wc]"White Nights" - 11 pirouettes - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

more from the movie White Nights...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qDGVHy5iTM]Gregory Hines & Mikhail Baryshnikov: "Duo Dance" (White Nights 1985) [HD] - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

indescribably incredible performance by 13-year-old Beth Ann Robinson...

America's Got Talent audition tape...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA8KHEA0K_8]America's Got Talent - Beth Ann Robinson - Audition - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Vikrant]

^ That looks like a Yoga inspired dance sequence.