6:50 of "Happy to be Alive"
September 21, 2019 8:09 AM Subscribe
People dancing to "Let's Groove" (SLYT) Happy Weekend, everyone!
So delightful! Loved all the guys, gals, kids, and the babies--so joyful. All the different bodies and abilities--just having such fun. Really wonderful to see.
posted by agatha_magatha at 9:04 AM on September 21, 2019
posted by agatha_magatha at 9:04 AM on September 21, 2019
seems like maybe a parents/children dance class where they all learned that routine. the teacher is choreographer Phil Wright, who is apparently a Person (he teaches Will Smith dance moves).
I love the diversity, but more so just the fun fun fun everyone seems to be having and the parents getting down with all those awesome kids.
posted by supermedusa at 9:45 AM on September 21, 2019 [1 favorite]
I love the diversity, but more so just the fun fun fun everyone seems to be having and the parents getting down with all those awesome kids.
posted by supermedusa at 9:45 AM on September 21, 2019 [1 favorite]
Yes, I looked around a bit and it's FAMILIES. He calls it #TheParentJam. I LOVE IT. I'm also finding it super inspiring that everyone looks so good, regardless of how sharp their underlying dance skills are - yeah, hippybear, despite being completely uncoordinated I sort of want to try the choreo.
posted by BlueBlueElectricBlue at 9:54 AM on September 21, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by BlueBlueElectricBlue at 9:54 AM on September 21, 2019 [4 favorites]
Yeah, that it's a family activity is really, really amazing, and got to me most of all. Parents who can be joyful and fun in an uninhibited way are such a phenomenal example for their kids (and I bet their homes are fun places, too).
I'm so happy that dance, and dance classes etc., are finding a new place in communities, and ways to open up the amazing experience of dancing to all people, all body types, ages. I'm hopeful that my own field (music) can make a similar shift, professionally speaking, and find ways to open up the activity of "musicing" (actually making music yourself, in collaboration with other people, however well or poorly) more effectively to all. I think that we have lost so much, individually and culturally, because making and listening to music became only listening, and a mostly automated (thus passive) experience about 100 years ago. When your whole experience with music is pushing buttons and listening--while that can be incredibly meaningful--there is so much that is lost from a potentially much more rich experience.
Kind of like the difference between watching people dance, and actually getting up and dancing yourself. The experience of doing the thing is qualitatively different in important ways, and has so much more to offer than only watching or listening. Hooray for community dance!
posted by LooseFilter at 9:57 AM on September 21, 2019 [4 favorites]
I'm so happy that dance, and dance classes etc., are finding a new place in communities, and ways to open up the amazing experience of dancing to all people, all body types, ages. I'm hopeful that my own field (music) can make a similar shift, professionally speaking, and find ways to open up the activity of "musicing" (actually making music yourself, in collaboration with other people, however well or poorly) more effectively to all. I think that we have lost so much, individually and culturally, because making and listening to music became only listening, and a mostly automated (thus passive) experience about 100 years ago. When your whole experience with music is pushing buttons and listening--while that can be incredibly meaningful--there is so much that is lost from a potentially much more rich experience.
Kind of like the difference between watching people dance, and actually getting up and dancing yourself. The experience of doing the thing is qualitatively different in important ways, and has so much more to offer than only watching or listening. Hooray for community dance!
posted by LooseFilter at 9:57 AM on September 21, 2019 [4 favorites]
I was hoping the dad with the baby in the carrier would get to dance, and I wasn't disappointed.
posted by Peach at 10:19 AM on September 21, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by Peach at 10:19 AM on September 21, 2019 [2 favorites]
This is a adorable and joyous. The style seems to be inspired by Kyle Hanagami (most famously his Shape of You video)
posted by gwint at 10:37 AM on September 21, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by gwint at 10:37 AM on September 21, 2019 [1 favorite]
That was just moving in every sense. I wish there'd been a class like that when my kids were young.
posted by mumimor at 10:40 AM on September 21, 2019
posted by mumimor at 10:40 AM on September 21, 2019
Isn't this the wrong Earth Wind & Fire song to be posting on the 21st night of September?
posted by wats at 11:21 AM on September 21, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by wats at 11:21 AM on September 21, 2019 [3 favorites]
Lots of entertaining facial expressions!
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:52 PM on September 21, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:52 PM on September 21, 2019 [1 favorite]
Yeah, it was interesting to see how much the facial expressions really deliver the impact of the move. I never realized before how much you dance with your face. And in fact there's no way anyone could look awkward here if their face was into it.
posted by Miko at 5:41 PM on September 21, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by Miko at 5:41 PM on September 21, 2019 [2 favorites]
I love everything about this. I heard this song at Target one day and had to dance. Like put-down-my-stuff-so-I-could-use-both-arms-and-dance kind of dancing. I love this song! I love music. I love everything.
posted by heathergirl at 2:19 PM on September 23, 2019
posted by heathergirl at 2:19 PM on September 23, 2019
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