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Swinging with Duke
By dogpossum On 12th September, 2012 · 2 Comments · In cat blogging, fillums, history, ideas, lindy hop and other dances, music
This is a post about Duke Ellington and dance, because he is on my mind at the moment.
I’ve recently discovered the 1951/52 stuff by the Johnny Hodges band on this dodgy digital download album Pound of Blues is really great for teaching dance, particularly choreography which recognises strict phrasing. It’s good, [...]
before the Battle of Hoth, when Leia’s instructing the pilots on their escape plan, not one of the rebels in the group want to know why they are being given their orders by a woman (who, as far we know, is not a pilot like them). She’s an effective general to them, and is [...]
Illinois Jacquet and Harry Edison on set for Gjon Mili’s film Jammin’ the Blues.
From the Google collection of Life Magazine photos (there are heaps more – check them out!)
Dance is like a block of chocolate
By dogpossum On 11th May, 2012 · 3 Comments · In conferences, djing, fillums, lindy hop and other dances, music, research, teaching
I have some things I want to say about the intersection of dance and audio-visual media, but I don’t have time to make a whole, proper argument. Fuck, I took 100 000 words to talk about these issues in my phd dissertation, so I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to write about this succinctly.
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It’s not only because I’m obsessive compulsive and get visceral pleasure from groups of objects arranged systematically on flat surfaces that I love this little fillum.
Moonstruck
By dogpossum On 11th December, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In djing, fillums, lindy hop and other dances, music, speakeasy
Last night there was a lunar eclipse, and I was up at midnight to see it. It was an amazing thing, but now I am feeling the late night in my bones.
I’m ‘preparing’ for another Speakeasy (10:30pm next Friday night, Crossover studio, 22 Golburn St, Sydney), when I should really be lying on [...]
Another look at appropriation in dance
By dogpossum On 1st December, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In fillums, lindy hop and other dances, menz, music, research, wimminz, Women in History 2011
Appropriation, step-stealing, cultural transmission, imitation, impersonation, copying, poaching….
So my last chunky post ‘Historical Recreation’: Fat Suits, Blackface and Dance has kind of hit like a ton of bricks. Cultural transmission in dance – the movement of dance steps and forms and ideas between and within cultures – is pretty much my core [...]
(tent image from here, police image from here)
I’m really interested in the discussion of official versus community policing of public space in Chris Brown’s article ‘The Occupy Movement and the Battle for Public Space’. One point I took from this was Brown’s juxtaposition of the formal, highly ordered occupation of [...]
fuck yeah lindy hop
By dogpossum On 10th November, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In fillums, lindy hop and other dances, music
Jerry Lewis in Hoss’s Flat
By dogpossum On 25th September, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In fillums, lindy hop and other dances, music
This is what I hope my dancing one day evolves to become.
Jerry Lewis – The Errand Boy (1961) Pantomime (song is ‘Blues in Hoss’s Flat’)
