Let’s take a break from ballet and look at some other kinds of dance. Via Mark Sullivan comes this example of dance as a martial art:
Bonus points if you can identify the pianist.
Via Robert the LLama Butcher, an outstanding canine performer.
And there’s the dancing stormtrooper of Akihabara.
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One more reason why I intend to remain the last person in North America without a cell phone.
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If three women together mean “mischief,” what would, say, three geeks mean?
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An epic win for the Japanese: the Gurren-Lagaan Jack.
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Let’s get into the Olympic spirit:
One of my high school teachers used to joke that he wanted to make a movie featuring Irish dance as a martial art (starring me). Looks like someone beat him to it.
I’m a little annoyed that the Irish dancer is wearing the wrong kind of shoes for the moves she’s doing, but it’s a funny vid.