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Continuing the Vernacular Jazz Dance theme. The Berry brothers were good good.
Tapdance with Cane - I’ve love the Berry Brother Energy. and that flying neck catch is incredible.
I’ve been digging Hat and Cane manipulation in the last few years.
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Ah ha. I’ve been after a web video of this for years.
Multiball Contact - Baoding Ball style.
The First clips shows a traditional technique for holding and rotating multi-layer stacks of balls in one hand, by using plates to hold the tower together, I’ve heard reports that stacks of over 50 balls have been palmspun using these plates.
In the clip, the bottom balls look like 65mm balls, large compared to the Baoding balls for sale in Europe.
The 2nd half of the clip looks like a combination of Tai Chi and Baoding Balls - woo ha.
The origins of Ball Contact are not in the 1980’s with Micheal Moschen (his fantastic routine “Light” was a milestone), Contact has several roots, most of them go back thousands of years in China, this Clip shows one of them, still alive in its home country. Multiball Contact has it’s origins in Baoding balls. It’s history baby!
The only place I had footage demonstrating these 2 before was on Greg Irwins hand health Chinese therapy balls DVD. Which, I’ll review…one day.
China - There’s 1 billion of them and they got skills.
This is a clip from the 1930 film Crazy house, it’s even in colour. It’s a dancer called Earl “Snakehips” Dancing an eccentric style of dance called “Snakehips”, with roots in the Vernacular Jazz Dancing of the era.
Drop me off in Harlem site with info about Tucker.
Dave Elsewhere (you know the guy off that crazy robot dancing video - Kollaboration and Detours Video Project) Lists Snakehips Tucker as one of his big influences, you can wack Elesewhere repeat some of Snakehips movements.
Elsewhere is amazing in his physical movement, and is a Ministry favorite (Why the hell haven’t we blogged him yet?), Snakehips tucker kicks the Doo-doo Out of Elsehere. Snakehips has Got Musicality - which you can see in this clip, something which sadly Elsewhere has never shown on a clip I’ve seen of him, Snakehips had sex appeal (he was a real hit with the ladies) and if I remember correctly Snakehips died young when he was shot - For doing the horizontal snakehips with some other guys lady. There’s surely no more cool way to die!
So this week I’m ignoring Ryan’s posting of Jazz hands, and posting videos of REAL Vernacular Jazz Dancing. I’m not a big fan of “Modern Jazz Dance”, But I love my, Charleston, blues, Swing/Lindy hop and a lot of the Old styles of Jazz dance. Bring it on.
Weekly World News - Vicious Unicycle Gangs Turf War
Genius, daft, news report :). Thanks to Harm1 on JugglingDB for the link.
Thomas Wood performs really fast contact juggling on TV with lots of energy and pizzaz.
I think this performance deserves jazz hands.
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UK beatboxer Beardyman bakes us up some breaks.
mmm… tasty.
