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      CommentAuthorM'shimmy
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2007
     

    Grant, I think you should learn to dance like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2007
     
    M'shimmy:

    Grant, I think you should learn to dance like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Holy poop on a stick! That guy is AWESOME.

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    M'shimmy:

    Grant, I think you should learn to dance like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Oh WOW! He's amazing! hahaha that's great.

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeJun 8th 2007
     
    popthestack:
    M'shimmy:

    Grant, I think you should learn to dance like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Oh WOW! He's amazing! hahaha that's great.

    I wish I could!! Dang!

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeJun 13th 2007
     

    Hal & Marge! Tearing it UP! For FIVE MINUTES & TWENTY SECONDS!!!!!!11

    They bust out variations I hadn't seen them do before. I'd only seen Rob & Diane Van Haaren do the little transitions to charleston, but now I know where they got it from [Emoticon not found]

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeJun 13th 2007
     

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    Oh shoot.

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeJun 13th 2007
     
    t_roach:

    Hal & Marge! Tearing it UP! For FIVE MINUTES & TWENTY SECONDS!!!!!!11

    They bust out variations I hadn't seen them do before. I'd only seen Rob & Diane Van Haaren do the little transitions to charleston, but now I know where they got it from [Emoticon not found]

    I would like to label this song as "challenging". Avalon, aw yeah! It's a tough one even when it's 3 minutes long.

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeJun 14th 2007
     
    t_roach:
    popthestack:
    M'shimmy:

    Grant, I think you should learn to dance like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Oh WOW! He's amazing! hahaha that's great.

    I wish I could!! Dang!

    How about like this?

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    t_roach:

    How about like this?

    Whoa!!! That's crazy awesome!

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2007
     

    I want to dance like a hotshot when I grow up.

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2007
     

    The team that forever changed the way we dance.

    Minnie's Moochers.

    And another at Frankie's 85th B-day.

    Who are the Moochers and why should I care?

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2007
     
    t_roach:

    The team that forever changed the way we dance.

    Minnie's Moochers.

    And another at Frankie's 85th B-day.

    Who are the Moochers and why should I care?

    I highly recommend that everyone take the time (over the course of a weekend or a lazy afternoon) to read that thread I posted on yehoodi.

    If you end up wondering, who's Maddog? Well, you better find out by watching this.

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      CommentAuthorfrutyspice
    • CommentTimeJun 21st 2007
     

    Okay, this thread is awfully long and it would be impossible to find out whether this has been posted yet or not, but I really like this routine:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9BKWqNIbik

    Sorry if it's a repeat.

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeJun 21st 2007
     

    Actually, I watched that last week, but hadn't posted it! Good find!

    Better lighting?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T0U9tFGdTo

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeJun 21st 2007
     

    That takes me back to last week's talk on "what is musicality".

    Delicious.

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeJun 21st 2007
     

    Nobody dances peabody anymore, but the hbll has some old syllabus documents you could reconstruct some of the steps from if you really wanted to.

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    Steven and Virginie actually dance and teach The Peabody, there's a few dancers out here in seattle that do the Peabody as well.. Its something you'll find more of the trad jazz and Lindy dancers doing more than others. Its quite cool though.. Fun to do to fast music

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeJun 21st 2007
     
    frutyspice:

    Okay, this thread is awfully long and it would be impossible to find out whether this has been posted yet or not, but I really like this routine:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9BKWqNIbik

    Sorry if it's a repeat.

    That.... was... awesome.

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    Bah! I've seen better at The Mac

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2007
     

    ULHS 2005 Charleston Finals, among other things, have recently made me happy.

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeJul 15th 2007
     

    Now this is dancing.

    Walk it out, Fosse!

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2007
     
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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeAug 29th 2007
     
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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2007
     
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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2007
     
    bobthecow:

    al minns, leon james, daft punk

    Here's a discussion about it.

    Here's one that's totally on the beat.

    [Emoticon not found]

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeSep 3rd 2007
     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yP8DSpmosI

    I'm pretty sure I posted this a while back, but it's worth watching frequently. It's all that and more.

    If you don't know Mama Lu Parks, read here. Btw, the author of savoyballroom.com posts frequently on dancehistory.org's forum -- Terry Monaghan

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeSep 5th 2007
     
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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeSep 5th 2007
     
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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeSep 7th 2007
     

    About 70 years of hoofing history in one video:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz1S0UrWPgs

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2007
     

    Montreal Lindy Hoppers Featured in Google Collaborative Video Project

    http://www.yehoodi.com/news/

    OR

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKAInP_tmHk

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2007
     

    Watch for Frankie Manning in a blue suit (and is that Norma Miller?) in this clip from Malcolm X that I've been trying to get a hold of for a LONG time and finally watched it.

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeSep 11th 2007
     
    t_roach:

    Watch for Frankie Manning in a blue suit (and is that Norma Miller?) in this clip from Malcolm X that I've been trying to get a hold of for a LONG time and finally watched it.

    Oh, I forgot to mentioned how stoked I was that they used Lionel Hampton and Flying Home. [Emoticon not found]

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeSep 11th 2007
     

    23 Skidoo at Camp Hollywood 2007.

    If you want some interesting insight, read the comments.

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeSep 14th 2007
     
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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeSep 18th 2007
     

    This looks like it will be an amazing resource:
    http://www.pageflakes.com/Promethean/14195798

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeSep 18th 2007
     

    Day at the Races. Check out 0:55. [Emoticon not found]

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeSep 18th 2007
     
    Foehg:

    Day at the Races. Check out 0:55. [Emoticon not found]

    Welcome to the world of Whitey's Lindyhoppers. [Emoticon not found] That's the only vintage clip we had access to at USU in 98-99. Still inspires me.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeSep 18th 2007
     
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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeSep 19th 2007
     

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    That was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Now I have to go to bed... "Moscow, Moscow," hehe

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeSep 20th 2007
     

    Todd & Naomi with the Hot Shots huh! [Emoticon not found]

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeSep 20th 2007
     

    This one's for ransom.

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeSep 21st 2007
     

    Sweeet!

    TNMK isn't my favorite, though.

    A quick review of my music collection reveals that I don't have much that would sync better. Probably the best is Green Grey (whom I, frankly, don't like that much either.)

    I'm already behind enough on my homework that I'm not going to actually mash the track into the video, but if you want, you can mute the video and play the track on top. Green Grey-- Big Clouds

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeSep 21st 2007
     
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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeSep 22nd 2007
     

    We interrupt your regularly scheduled dancing to bring you some talking about dancing:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7-prCNdq_M
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SuUCmB2LXI

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      CommentAuthorfrutyspice
    • CommentTimeSep 23rd 2007
     

    This one's for you foehg. It's back!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JLz2DzOmw8

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeSep 23rd 2007
     

    I'm just a popular guy in this thread. Anybody else got one for me?

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      CommentAuthorfrutyspice
    • CommentTimeSep 29th 2007
     
    traci:

    genghis khan on tour in the 70's?

    Okay, I have a confession. I've been obsessing about this video ever since I saw it on here. Further, I must confess that I found another with an English translation. Here it is:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH8gtrD4_C4&mode=related&search=

    I must also confess and warn you that some of it is vulgar. Further, I must confess that I laughed....... not at the vulgar part, but everything else..... of course.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeSep 29th 2007
     

    Okay, I have a confession. I've been obsessing about this video ever since I saw it on here.

    me too! i've even gotten one of their albums. [Emoticon not found] and i'll probably make a ringtone out of the dschinghis khan song. 'cause it's awesome and things.

    fyi: that video isn't a real English translation. it's what they think the sounds sound like, if the sounds were English words. more like a transliteration. if that makes sense. the words are something to the gist of how great Moscow and Russia are. (my German's pretty bad these days)