Recorded before her death in 2019, 90 year old former Radio City Music Hall Corps de Ballet soloist, Paulette Harwood shares the energy and passion that characterised her subsequent career as a dance teacher in a poignant film by her grandson James Gallagher who sez:
…she was interesting before I knew what interesting was. I didn’t set out to make a film, I knew my grandmother and the school wouldn’t be around forever and I wanted to document it before she went away
A 2011 short by Masahiko Sato and Kohji Robert Yamamoto combining motion-tracking data of a ballerina’s dance with the vintage animation technique of rotoscoping.
A charming recent video of an old chap discarding his canes to Rock Around The Clock, since gone viral and set to a variety of alternate tunes including this inspired sync to DJ Snake and Lil John’s Turn Down For What (which you should also see in its musicless version here)
French director Marc-Antoine Locatelli’s performance art project featuring dancer Lucas Boirat’s flowing interactions with an elusive light source.
It’s rather excellent, we feel.
(H/T: John Quinlivan)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9pe9_UArlc
He will survive.
Just probably not as a professional dancer/choreographer.
Henry Street, Dublin within the last hour.
Thanks Sarah E
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D36hUfRxrvg
