[embrace the random]
as small as a world and as large as alone.
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Happy National Tap Dance Day!!
In honor, here is a video of the Shim Sham, which is a classic tap dance routine that back in the 20s was a swing type dance that all performers knew and would come out at the end of a show and do all together. Many tap schools still teach it, especially for National Tap Dance Day because students from all over can get together and all perform the same dance without any teaching or rehearsals.
I have great memories of the years my teacher brought some of us to Tap Dance Day festivities in Lexington, MA where we took classes from tap pros and got to perform the Shim Sham with them at the closing performance.
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Photo reblogged from The Nifty Fifties
Gene Kelly publicity still for ’Singin’ in the Rain’, 1952.
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My dance teacher’s son Teddy has a reality show coming out this summer on Oxygen called “All the Right Moves.” Check out this awesome sneakpeek!
He’s the one in the blue t-shirt. We’re all so proud! :D
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Photo reblogged from paintyhands
life:
Ask anyone today under the age of, say, 40, “Who was Gypsy Rose Lee?” and chances are pretty good that the reaction will be utter bewilderment. “Gypsy Rose who?”
Largely forgotten today, Gypsy Rose Lee (born Ellen June Hovick in Seattle in 1911), was — and remains — a force in American popular culture not because she acted in films (although she did act in films) or because she wrote successful mystery novels (although she did write successful mystery novels). The reason Gypsy Rose Lee’s influence endures can be attributed to two central elements of her remarkable, all-American life story: first, her 1957 memoir, Gypsy, which formed the basis for what more than a few critics laud as the greatest of all American musicals, the 1959 Styne-Sondheim-Laurents masterpiece, Gypsy: A Musical Fable; and second, her career in burlesque, when she became the most famous — and perhaps the most singularly likable — stripper in the world.On the anniversary of her death at the too-young age of 59, LIFE celebrates the young entertainer’s life with a selection of photos from Memphis in 1949.
…and we’ll have a real good time. Oh yeah. We’ll. have. a real. good. time. ;)
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My dance teacher’s son’s dance troupe “Shaping Sound” killing it on DWTS once again. Gorgeous.
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Video reblogged from Girl Walk // All Day
Girl Walk // All Day was an official selection of the SxSW Film Festival. Team Girl Walk hit Austin hard, with five screenings, seven hundred sparklers, and one afternoon of bonkers freestyle dancing. Here’s our video recap.
girlwalkallday.com
Produced by: Wild Combination
Dance: John Doyle, Daisuke Omiya, Anne Marsen
Camera: Jacob Krupnick, EJ Enriquez
Music: “Everybody Dance” by Chic
Special Thanks: Janet Pierson, Studiomates, Blake KammerdeinerYay Girl Walk!! At about 2:46 you can see a second of Ms. @recorderbelle at the sparkler dance party. And I’m around there somewhere too. :D Great times.
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Photo reblogged from Dans mon chapeau melon!!!!!
Because when I dance, nothing else can matter. It’s the best feeling for me (justagirll96).
For years, dancing was the only time I ever felt pretty.
