Are We Human, Or Are We Dancers?

Study of deliberate movement of the human body

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[uptownlowdown]

CITY EXTRAS in ICE COLD KATIE thank your lucky stars (1943) dir. david butler

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[badassdemonsword]

They always do this when they hear the dinner bell

[julytrees]

Model Naomi Sims posing in New York for LIFE magazine, ca. 1969. Photos by Yale Joel.

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[swanlake1998]

precious adams on ig

[balletroyale]

I wish all dancers would do stuff like this on their social medias and be honest about the constant need for guidance. 

[rihfenty]

BITCH BETTER HAVE MY MONEY - Rihanna Live at Jay-Z Extra Innings (July 12, 2026)

[emmanuelleriva]

Franz had read about an American who’d done the Louvre in 9 minutes, 45 seconds. They decided to do better. Band of Outsiders (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

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[adamsmasher]

What I love about this is seeing that he's clearly a hockey skater. Now, I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to cold slippy antics, but what I notice is different between hockey skaters and nearly all other skaters is that hockey skaters essentially run on the ice. Any other skater is trying to glide, perform, or be otherwise smooth. Create a new type of mobility, but on ice. But hockey skaters? The floor is slippery but that's why they've got knives on their feet, so it's running time. Run run run run.

So this is like playing tag on ice, except the one guy you're trying to get is magically not on ice. And I think that's pretty neat.

[jackironsides]

He’s also making really good use of the stoppers on the front of his skates. You can clearly see several times that when he starts juking and running he’s not actually running with the wheels in contact with the ground – he’s tipped forward to run on the rubber stoppers, which will give him more traction on the slippery surface. He can change direction faster because none of his kinetic energy is going into countering the inertia of spinning wheels.

I don’t know if the picks on the front of ice skates are used similarly (because ice hockey is not so much of a national pastime in Australia) but I wouldn’t be surprised. But I spent a bit of time with a roller derby team, and I recognised that particular stopper run :)

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[neveragainfools]

Need to make a small correction here - hockey skates vitally DON'T have toepicks. Those are for figure skating to perform jumps. The picks are there to stop your forward momentum and you and fling you into the air, unlike rollerskate stoppers which are mainly for breaking. Hockey skates have slim fronts so that 'running' on ice builds speed and doesn't interrupt your movement. Sincerely a canadian who enjoys this post and has used all three types of skates in my life