FLASH MOB: Dancing at Liverpool Street Station

Oh man, we love the flash mobs here at Dancing Videos blog. The look on unsuspecting passers-by faces! The fun had by all, surprised that their commute has been turned from boring to awesome! It’s great. This one was put on by T-Mobile, but commercial or not, it’s still pretty great.

FLASH MOB: Beyonce “Single Ladies” in Picadilly Square

Dancing Videos’ curatorial staff is giddy with the amount of flash mobs cropping up to perform public acts of dancing all over the Europe and elsewhere. As Pitchfork points out, this Flash Mob in Picadilly Square of Beyonce‘s “Single Ladies” (featured in our initial post), is promotional, but that doesn’t make it any less awesome.

Dancing ukulele man

I’ve been listening a whole lot to The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele lately. It’s almost spring, my heart is full, life is easy … and I’m feeling good.

One of my favorite songs on the album is “You Can’t Force a Dance Party,” which tells the story of a girl from New York who comes to visit a man in Mississippi. He throws her a dance party, but no one’s really feeling it. “You can’t force a dance party,” he tells her, “but for you I’ll try.”

I couldn’t find a video of “You Can’t Force a Dance Party,” but while I was looking, I found another Dent May video that fits the bill. It features a charming dance party that does not look as thought it has been forced in any way.

It’s spring. Love, and the sweet strains of a ukulele, are in the air.

Breakin’ Broom Dance by Turbo (eat your heart out, Dick Van Dyke and your chimney sweeps)

Now this is a broom dance!

I’ve never heard of the movie Breakin’ until my pal Matthew “Frisky High-Five” D$@!a sent me this video, but now I can’t wait to see the movie. Holy crap, this dance by Turbo is sweet.

To be honest, the title of this post is a bit rash and all for effect. I’m actually quite a great fan of the Mary Poppins, and attempted to write several ridiculous essays in college on the relationship between Mary Poppins and Aristotle’s Ethics (you don’t want to read them–probably pretty boring).

So Mary Poppins = pretty great anyway.

Mary Poppins + Lil Jon = Awesome

Paul Rudd’s “Sexy Dance”

Paul Rudd’s dance from a recent appearance on The Daily Show is making its spliced-from-interview way around the interwebs. Although it rates low on the dance achievement scale, it gets high points for bringing dance further into the popular non-dancing mainstream, as well as lending further credence to the sexiness of goofy guys willing to be silly in public.

Thanks, Paul Rudd, for the help.

Scrummage University Interpretive Dance Competition Video 2

When will this actually happen?

I missed the first one, and the second Intronatnl Union of Intrprtv Dance of Detroit competition was postponed and never rescheduled.

Trumbullplex, Scrummage, someone, anyone, please make this happen. Detroit needs it now more than ever.

Final note: I have watched this video more than any other video on YouTube.

Potato salad so good, you’ll flip

I don’t know what to say about this video. It takes something simple (a singing and dancing routine) and turns it into something remarkable (feats of physical contortion) and confounding (why are they in a barn? what is so inspiring about this potato salad that it causes you to celebrate it with death-defying acts of gymnastics?).

See for yourself. Pretty astounding. And making me hungry.