This was too funny not to share.
It is worth watching to the end to watch her shake her head in the bridge position.
www.youtube.com/watch
It is worth watching to the end to watch her shake her head in the bridge position.
www.youtube.com/watch
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Re: Weird retro clip...
Tue, May 13, 2008 - 9:03 PMI expected her to levitate with all that arm flapping...
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Wed, May 14, 2008 - 6:32 AMWow. Looks like belly dance has come a long way...
Yikes.
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Wed, May 14, 2008 - 6:59 AMthat was... educating
i'm so glad we're past that though lol.
maybe in 100 years people will watch vids of some of the (worst) dancers of our times and think we all danced that way... ugh, hope not!
btw. anyone else kept getting distracted by her costume?
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Wed, May 14, 2008 - 9:48 AM"Istanbul, Constantinople, even New York was once Amsterdam...", huh?????
I have been made to dance to some weird music but I feel sorry for her... Or is that a remake?
Regarding that bra...- a largely endowed friend told me the lady at the brassiere shop has told her, big bras have to be really tight in the underbust width otherwise her tits will fall out from under the bottom seam (???) I did not know the same goes for small bellydance bras too. Sorry to be this explicit, maybe I should have just agreed on the "educational" bit. ; ) -
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Wed, May 14, 2008 - 10:52 AMThe music is They Might Be Giants- way after the time this clip was made. :) -
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Wed, May 14, 2008 - 1:58 PMIt wouldn't surprise me if the original audio to the clip was lost and they chose They Might Be Giants instead.
But I am certainly curious out of which archive this, um, gem was pulled.
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Wed, May 14, 2008 - 2:13 PMactually the original version is from the four lads, it was recorded on 1953 .
But i read somewhere that it was actually written in 1929, but that version is indeed from they might be giants =)
lol , am I the only one who really liked this song? I'd love to do a jazzy bellydance coreo out of this...such fun!
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Wed, May 14, 2008 - 3:01 PMThe Istanbul song is a spoof on "Puttin' on the Ritz," which according to Wikipedia, was written in 1929 by Irving Berlin. So you're right, the original song was written in 1929.
I totally think you could do a jazzy, tongue-in-cheek belly dance choreo to this song. -
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Thu, May 15, 2008 - 6:02 AMCall me silly, as soon as I saw the ID of the song, I downloaded it from iTunes. Cheeky, jazzy something gonna happen here! LOL -
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Thu, May 15, 2008 - 9:49 AMThe Istanbul song? I already decided to use it for my first performance. :-)
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Thu, May 15, 2008 - 6:06 PMThere's a nice version of this song on "Doublemoon Women", and the artist singing it gives a little info about the song at the end.
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Wed, May 14, 2008 - 3:39 PMow. i think my head would explode if i did that.
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Thu, May 15, 2008 - 9:48 AMYou know things have greatly improved when I can look at it as a near beginner and say I know I can do better than that. -
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Thu, May 15, 2008 - 11:25 AMLOL! i so did a coreo with puttin on the ritz for my tribal class a while ago! no wonder i liked this too!
glad to see so many people into it =D
creative gals ! -
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Fri, May 16, 2008 - 5:00 PMThe music is great for a tongue in cheek piece. I wonder who she is, how old she is, and what she is doing now?
So many really older ladies must have really wonderful histories. -
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Sun, May 18, 2008 - 6:59 AMI recently read "Looking for Little Egypt" by Donna Carlton. She chronicles the history of bellydance starting with the Chicago World's Fair in the 1890's. This lady reminded me of some of the pictures that were in that book. Her dancing reminded me, too, of the vaudevillian or sideshow aspect of that first dance "exhibition" in Chicago. The acrobatics seem like they would be part of those shows. I bet that was pretty scandalous for its time.
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Sun, May 18, 2008 - 11:15 PMThat's some serious head bangin whiplash there...
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Mon, May 19, 2008 - 5:45 AMWasn't she a burlesque performer instead of the belly dancer? I seem to remember that from somewhere, but can't think of it at the moment. -
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Mon, May 19, 2008 - 6:15 AMwhy would you do that with your head in that position????
it just is really odd...
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Mon, May 19, 2008 - 9:24 AMHey Mahsati,
Yes, a quick google search reveals she was a burlesque/variety show girl.
www.weirdwildrealm.com/f-burlesque1.html
This may be the full clip, featuring other "exotic" dancers:
en.sevenload.com/videos/sY...iety-Girls
And contrary to the youtube title, the video is from the 40's, not the 30's. -
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Mon, May 19, 2008 - 9:31 AMThanks, Emily - I *thought* I remembered that!
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