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This video, allegedly from the Philippines, shows a traffic cop who has missed his calling. But will it Benny Hillify?
-via Boing Boing
In 1948, the Russian dance troupe Berezka formed, taking its name from the Russian word for birch tree. Audiences were mesmerized by its special step, hidden beneath the dancers’ long, flowing dresses. They appear to actually float over the floor! Skip to about 1:30 in the video to see this effect.
Link -via The Presurfer
Marquese Scott, the dubstep master who wowed the Internet three months ago, is back. This time, he’s defying the limits of human movement while on the Great Wall of China.
-via Blame It on the Voices | Scott’s Website
You’ve already seen a dog dance the meringue, but if you prefer solo dances, then you’ll love seeing Stuart salsa dance.
A school in São Paulo, Brazil trains people who are visually impaired — many completely blind since birth — to be graceful and coordinated ballet dancers. Fernanda Bianchini opened her school in 1995 and developed an effective way of teaching dance by touch to hundreds of students. A few of her students have even become professional dancers.
-via Oddity Central | Previously: Super Mario Bros. Ballet
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Ericka Dufour and her friend Kyle dance with a sword and knife. It’s a pity that the audio doesn’t pick up him saying, “Here, Grandma, hold my beer and watch this.”
Link -via Super Punch
Marquese Scott moves in a way that looks inhuman. How does he do it? If you’re too busy to watch the whole video, skip ahead to the 4 minute mark.
-via Althouse | Scott’s Website
Morgan Day and Emily Wigger definitely deserved the “Golden Budgie” award at this year’s National Jitterbug Championships. Their swing dancing routine got increasingly geeky by incorporating theme music and elements of game play. -via Comics Alliance
In the future, dancing mini robots will initiate the robotic revolution against mankind! Well, maybe not, but this video demonstrates how they can be programmed to get down, Dance Dance Revolution style. Watch in amazement as those little mechanical feet step in an extremely robotic manner! Marvel at how cute he is, albeit in a sinister way! Just don’t expect to see this little guy crushing high scores until he can play without hanging on to the bar.
Call Fox and get this guy on So You Think You Can Dance! Here’s a street performer in Paris doing … well, I don’t know quite how to describe it.
Just watch: hit play or go to Link [YouTube]
Sapientia University has created a series of online videos that illustrate different sorting algorithms using folk dances:
What you have to do is just check that they are in fact implementing the algorithm correctly. The dancers have numbers stuck on their front and they do seem to look down and examine the value on another dancer before performing the dance routine dictated by the algorithm.
Embedded above is the bubble sort, as explained by a troupe performing the Hungarian “Csángó” dance.
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This is good, but the moves get really explicit once you start into calculus. If you know who’s responsible for this great cartoon, let us know in the comments.
via Geekosystem | Previously: Math Dances and Other College Application Videos
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So, think you can dance? Well, this old couple shows all the young whippersnappers how to properly execute a flawless dance routine, to Whitney Houston’s classic.
Hello, America’s Got Talent, are you listening?
See the clip over at Cubiclebot: Link
Joy is watching a turtle (red-eared slider?) dancing to "Satisfaction" by Benny Benassi. All you need is a happy tortoise, a toothbrush, and some electro house music!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Milk and Cookies
Watching old episodes of Soul Train is always a good time. The outrageous outfits, the wonderful and wacky dance moves, the cool music acts and the sweet, soulful voice of Mr. Don Cornelius make up one excellent hour of television. If you start watching the reruns though, you may occasionally find yourself exclaiming “I recognize that person,” and you just might be right. A number of celebrities danced on the show before and after they made it big. Here are a few stars you might recognize if you keep your eyes peeled while watching.
After graduating high school, Rosie Perez moved to Los Angeles and started attending LA City College with hopes of becoming a marine biologist. She was a killer dancer though and soon found herself working on Soul Train in the late 80s. After a few seasons, she went on to perform at the club Funky Reggae, which is where she was spotted by Spike Lee who soon cast her in his film Do The Right Thing.
She continued working in the dance field and earned three Emmy nominations for her choreography on In Living Color and she choreographed music videos for Janet Jackson, Bobby Brown, Diana Ross and LL Cool J. Of course, Rosie is best know for her acting, starring in White Men Can’t Jump, Untamed Heart, Fearless and more. She’s even appeared on Broadway, where she was able to combine her dancing and acting talents.
These days, she focuses most of her energies on activism and President Obama even appointed her to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS this year.
Sources: Star Pulse, Biography.com, Wikipedia
Born Tara Leigh Patrick, Carmen’s parents knew she was destined for fame and they enrolled her in creative and performing arts classes since she was a youngster. Before she was even 18, she had already moved to LA and started dancing on Soul Train in 1991. Her big break came when she snuck into a nightclub and was spotted by Prince, who asked her to audition for a new female singing group he was forming. While she failed that the audition, she soon met Prince a second time and he asked her to be a solo artist on his record label. He also asked her to change her name to something more exotic, suggesting Carmen Electra after Bizet’s opera, Carmen, and the Greek princess Electra.
Her music career failed, but she was able to land a job on Nickelodeon’s All That, and she soon posed in Playboy, which helped her land a role on Baywatch and in MTV’s Singled Out. Since then she’s starred in a number of TV shows and movies, although these days her biggest roles seem to be in parody films like Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans.
Sources: Wikipedia, Hot Carmen Electra
Image via Rafael Amado Deras [Flickr]
Nick Cannon started young. He was only eight when he started doing comedy acts and at 11, he was performing his act on public access. At only 15, he moved to Hollywood and joined the cast of Soul Train while performing his comedy routine at night. Like Carmen Electra, he was also recruited for Nickelodeon’s All That and he served as the warm up stand up comedian before the sketches were underway. Soon enough, he was added to the cast and the writing crew, making him the youngest staff writer in the history of television at age 17.
In 2002, he starred alongside Will Smith in Men in Black II and was soon cast as the lead in Drumline. The same year, he also released his debut album. These days, while still working on movies, music and his marriage to Mariah Carey, he is also the host on America’s Got Talent.
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This police officer in Malmö, Sweden, has become an internet sensation. He seems to think that he’s a good dancer. Do you agree?
via Urlesque
Yes, it’s real! This surreal fusion of country line dancing and hip hop from 1995 was created by aerobics instructor Diane Horner. She says “You can even add your shoulders if you want. That’s the fun thing about hip hop dancing.”
via Glenn Reynolds
Canine musical freestyle returns to the TV show Britain’s Got Talent! Tina and her dog Chandi put on quite a show. -via Buzzfeed
Previously at Neatorama: Carolyn Scott and the amazing Rookie.
A group of ferrets dance for your entertainment. The music is a cover of Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” arranged by The Moog Cookbook. Animation by Sandro Cruz. -via Buzzfeed
Sometimes you just gotta let it loose, though this short video clip shows that even when you think you’re alone … Big Brother is always watching!
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Think that the person yakking on his cell phone while driving in the car next to you is bad? He’s nothing compared to this dancing Romanian driver! How on Earth did he get his license?!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Information Nation
North Korea may have gone nuclear, but that didn’t stop this uniformed South Korean officer from doing what’s truly important: dancing to the pop hit "Nobody" by The Wonder Girls.
Stay with it, it gets better and better. And soon enough, you won’t be able to get the tunes out of your head.
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So – I posted Snowball the parrot, the subject of a very scientific experiment to see if birds can dance. But Snowball might well just have two left claws when compared to a bird named Frosty.
Here’s a clip of Frosty the parrot shaking its tail feather to Ray Charles and the Blues Brothers’ Twist It (Shake Your Tail Feather): Link [embedded YouTube clip, video by Karla K. Larsson)
I feel like this clip was sped up, but as evidenced by the people moving at normal speeds in the background, it’s not. These people are just that amazing. I’m a little tired just watching them! This was from a 1941 film called Hellzapoppin’. Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers disbanded just a year later.
Link via DarkRoastedBlend
Thingamababy blog has a viral video clip – the original has over 1 million views – of a young girl named Arianna dancing to Beyoncé’s Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It). She (Arianna) has the moves down pat, but is it cute or disturbing (or a little of both) to let your toddler watch MTV for its, um, videos of scantily clad pop stars dancing?
Link [embedded YouTube clip]
Meet Fred and Ginger (yes, after Astaire and Rogers), two seals at the North Carolina Zoological Park that love to dance! Apparently, they also dance because they love fish:
The secret of the perfect dancing partnership, in this case at least, seems to be a healthy diet based largely on seafood.
‘They eat fish and lots of it,’ added Miss Abbott.
‘They get some in the morning and then in the afternoon they go through a training exercise where they are rewarded with more fish.’
Link (Photo: Valerie Abbott)
Robots + Dancing = Awesome.
But is it useful to society in anyway? Maybe the way the Hexapod (six legged) robot moves flexibly and its precision movements could be applied to many fields. Until then we’ll have to be just content with the robots dancing at the third Austrian Hexapod Championship.
Daito Manabe is a Japanese artist and programer who has figured out a way to make his face involuntarily dance to music: by using electricity. Each beat hits a different part of his face with a quick shock. The result is disturbing, yet highly entertaining.
