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OOHHHHH sopranos like the singers
HBO’s Sopranos: hark at the ducks 🦆 give zero fucks 🦆 in Tony’s pool 🦆 pasta fazool 🍝
altos: bada biNg 🔫 bada boOm 🔫 bada biNg 🔫 bada boOm 🔫
this website is a goddamn national treasure
did that talented motherfucker just do this all blindfolded??
Sound on. It's truly a masterpiece.
He’s a musician
“I would like to say I would consider it canon that he actually - because we did two musical ones this year - I would say that at the Leverage headquarters, that Eliot has taught Hardison how to play fiddle with the violin and they do like, hoedown music and Appalachian music in Nate’s kitchen and then keep him up at night.” - John Rogers, ‘The Studio Job’ DVD Commentary
I want whatever it is that these two have
Context! This is called a Jack and Jill! It's a contest in a style called West Coast Swing.
Here's the thing... it's ALL improv. The whole thing. And those two? Randomly matched.
Dance is a sport where strangers fall madly in love for a few minutes. And I need more all the time.
damn, what sorcery that she's doing that in BOOTS?
I’m sorry, wait stop. That was IMPROV???
Dance like this is a magic I just can’t fathom.
Oh yeah the fun thing about being even a base level performance dancer is that you can actively see their communication the entire time! Some of it is more obvious than other but if this was choreographed they wouldn’t need to communicate hardly at all. Lemme break down a few spots!
The moment in the beginning when they started dancing helped them set the tone and energy for eachother so they knew what type of dancing to expect, and they proceeded to pull from that vibe the entire time.
Around the quarter mark when they’re spinning around, green shirt looks at purple shirt’s feet, watching to see if purple was going to move. Purple then takes that and begins to move backwards, into the hand switch (which would have been far more fluid choreographed) and as purple raises their arm, green does the dramatic lean back utilizing the visual element of her hair. Unclear if purple necessarily was the reason but they were definitely asking for some sort of flair and green definitely delivered.
An easier one to see was that the trust fall was not planned but you could see the Very Direct Communication from the purple to the green offering that opportunity. Green didn’t have to take it but when they saw the opportunity they then positioned themselves and timed it with the music so the drop in the music coincided with their torso hitting purple’s arms.
Also the little coordinated butt wiggle at the end when green let purple lead was hilarious loved that.
There’s more but I don’t feel like giving a play-by-play but maybe y’all can see more of it now that I’ve pointed out examples! Remember folks, dancing with others is about communication!
This line killed me
Top left clockwise: Keith groover, Jordan Simons, Bret Crow, Harry Hansen
WHAT holy shit that’s wildly cool
Singing a new year's song with 爱妃/Ai Fei ("Beloved concubine", a term of address Chinese emperors used for their favorite concubines/consorts)
English added by me :)
This got me teary-eyed. This encapsulates all that is best about humanity:
This is what it's all about man, you dig?
no idea if it's my hormones, what I've seen in the news lately, the weight of living the past few years, or just because it's Judi Dench...but this impromptu performance really made me cry for a good ten minutes, no kidding.
When the whole party is down but your bard is up
jack had absolutely no right to go this hard
um excuse me Jack not only may but must go this hard
I love the moment where the band is like “oh, yeah, let’s pick this up!”
Everything he does is joy
Always reblog…
Legend has it she still flops around ireland👀
EVERYBODY WATCH THIS RIGHT NOW!!!
a classic
