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Bay Area Same-Sex Dance Association is proud to announce the 11th annual April Follies Same-Sex Dancesport Classic to be held again at the elegant Just Dance Ballroom in Oakland, April 27, 2013. Featuring a full complement of competitive dance events, April Follies continues to be the largest and longest-running same-sex dance competition in North America.
What happens in the dance studio when everyone has gone home? Spiderman dances, of course. And most impressively, it’s a perfectly realistic social argentine tango.
Dance in the News: A Mashup of Our Favorite Lady Dancing Scenes
video by Ben Craw
via The Huffington Post, HuffPo Women
Love is not all you need, laughter is not necessarily the best medicine, and while money doesn’t buy happiness, neither does poverty. But it is a truth universally acknowledged that there is almost no mood a spontaneous dance party can’t lift.
Hanna Horvath, the protagonist of “Girls,” knows this well. At the end of episode three, she starts getting down to Robyn’s “Dancing On My Own” in her room. What starts out as some seated swaying on her bed turns into a full body dance, and soon her roommate and best friend Marnie is in there rocking out with her. In that moment it doesn’t matter that Hannah just found out her ex-boyfriend is gay or that her new one probably gave her HPV. And watching the episode, it was hard not to dance yourself.
After discussing the scene in detail — and talking about how happy it made us — we started thinking about how many on-screen women know the value of a good old-fashioned boogie, even if they don’t look all that graceful while they’re doing it. So we’ve compiled clips of our favorite lady dance scenes from film (minus the heavily choreographed ones) into a mashup we hope will make you want to jump out of your desk chair and start shaking your hips. Bonus points if you convince your co-workers to do the same.
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Javier Guiraldi, Juan Francisco Seguí, Juan Pablo Ramirez & Helen La Vikinga give the performance “Danza Maligna” at the milonga La Marshall at El Beso, Buenos Aires, Argentina april 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF63E8D051C4BE683
A playlist of excellent lindy hoppers, where women act as the ‘lead’ and men the ‘follow’. They are all same-sex dance partnerships - videos of women leading men seem to be harder to find.
(Source: sarahsellaphix)
“Tango entre varones”, Argentine documentary tv clip about tango dancing between men in Buenos Aires. Well worth watching if you understand Spanish (though the interviewer exotifies at times). For the non-Spanish-speaking there’s still some nice dancing throughout, for instance at 6.15 min.
We release Overland for public consumption. Produced in 2010 the film chronicles the migration of a character bound for new horizons. Shot in Montreal, Halifax, and on the train in between, Overland discovers through movement what is lost in leaving a place, and what is found along the way.
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MUSIC VIDEO featuring Kaia, a transsexual dancer wrestling with questions of transgender embodiment.
(There is no attempt to infringe upon copyright laws. Music credit is Janelle Monae’s “Cold War.” This video was not created for monetary gain of any kind.)
Music video of myself dancing. This is pre-hormones
(Source: freekygeekyproductions)
