Category: dance

Laurie & Val – JIVE

Week 2 DWTS.

Laurie Hernandez and Val Chmerkovskiy Jive to “Duck Tales”

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Laurie hasn’t used much Gymnastics, so far. Saving it for future rounds. 🙂

Claudia – Strictly Come Dancing

How are things going for Claudia Fragapane?

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There is now less than a week to go before the first live show which will be both Claudia and AJ’s first proper Strictly performance. …

tellymix

She’s an early favourite.

via Gymternet Clan

Yvonne Tousek – 1999 Floor

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Someone needs to make a playlist of ALL Yvonne’s many wild and original routine choreographies for Canada and UCLA. 🙂

via Fans of Canadian Gymnastics

Michael Jackson – Black Or White

The best dance video you’ll see today. 🙂

Tobias Ellehammer:

… we should open up our arms and look to solve the problems together. There should be room for everyone in this world. No matter what you look like, what religion you have or where you come from. We are all one. …

Something that will unite people from all around the globe. The world is beautiful. We should all enjoy it together.

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(via Anastasia Umeh)

A Midsummer Night’s Swing 1941

This must have been one of the first great dance numbers on film.

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Sia – The Greatest

Dark and intense. Sia’s latest features child dancers including Maddie Ziegler. It’s something of a tribute to the 49 shooting victims in Orlando last June.

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Sia’s Wonderful and Sad Music Video for Orlando

Dutch Beam in Rio

Anchored by the eventual Champion Sanne Wevers, Netherlands had the 2nd highest team score on this apparatus.

Click PLAY or watch Olympic prelims on Vimeo.

Dutch coach Patrick Kiens presented at Ontario Congress just after the Olympics. (Netherlands beat Canada in prelims as a team by 0.2)

He feels the much acclaimed Dutch choreography on Beam is reminiscent of the Soviets from the 1988-92 cycle. More continuous movements, more interesting and artistic elements. An era when Beam choreography was more important.

If your gymnasts can do high level elements like Illusion and multiple turns, it’s smart coaching to use those in preference to risky tumbling sequences that require more pounding.