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The Nicholas Brothers
Because I am filled with constant and unrelenting existential dread sad, and because I’m currently reading a really good book about the history of Vaudeville, I’m going to post some videos of the Nicholas Brothers and Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates (and also a clip of Eddie Cantor filmed in 1923 because it is wild to me that we can watch things that are nearly 100 years old).
Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers from Stormy Weather, colorized.
The Nicholas Brothers performing “Lucky Number” in 1936.
Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates being a ridiculous human being (seriously).
Eddie Cantor, 1923.
Flash Dancers: Ekphrastic Singles - "Hey Nineteen" by Aimee Parkison
Flash Dancers: Ekphrastic Singles – "Hey Nineteen" by Aimee Parkison
The Flash Dancers: Ekphrastic Singles series is curated by Meg Pokrass. Authors pair an original work of flash fiction with a song.
Hey Nineteen by Aimee Parkison
(inspired by the song “Hey Nineteen” by Steely Dan)
Because he didn’t know my name and I wasn’t going to tell, he asked how old I was.
I said, “Nineteen.”
After that, he started calling me Nineteen, as if I were a number.
“Hey,…
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Flash Dancers: Ekphrastic Singles - "Mary’s Dress Waves" by Kathryn Kulpa
Flash Dancers: Ekphrastic Singles – "Mary’s Dress Waves" by Kathryn Kulpa
The Flash Dancers: Ekphrastic Singles series is curated by Meg Pokrass. Authors pair an original work of flash fiction with a song.
Mary’s Dress Waves by Kathryn Kulpa (after “Thunder Road”)
I used to dream of being kidnapped. I would be drooping in my molded plastic desk/chair, drawing lightning bolts and three-dimensional boxes in my notebook. The door of Mrs. Casey’s sixth-grade classroom…
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LESSON #27: DR. DAN AND KATE MONTGOMERY: HIP HOP MARTIAL ARTS, THE SELF COMPASS, AND LOVE
Psychologist and Black Belt Dr. Dan Montgomery and his wife Kate, authors of Amazon-based Self Compass books, offer action-filled insights into Life and Love through Hip Hop Martial Arts and the Self Compass (SelfCompass.com). Dr. Dan and Kate Montgomery's books are praised by professors at Princeton, Notre Dame, Yale and Stanford, and by six Catholic Cardinals.
Psychologist and Black Belt Dr. Dan Montgomery and his wife Kate, authors of Amazon-based Self Compass books, offer action-filled insights into Life and Love through Hip Hop Martial Arts and the Self Compass (SelfCompass.com). Dr. Dan and Kate Montgomery's books are praised by professors at Princeton, Notre Dame, Yale and Stanford, and by six Catholic Cardinals.
These brothers, born nearly 100 years ago, have more talent than all the Strictly Come Dancing winners put together
You don't see this kind of magic on BBC1 on a Saturday night, we can tell you that
Flamboyant judge Bruno Tonioli wouldn't know what to do with himself.
And then they just tap dance it off like it ain't no big thing
This energetic combination of tap and acrobatics, known as 'flash dance', first evolved in the 1920s-1930s.
These clips - taken from 1943 musical Stormy Weather - feature legendary dancing duo The Nicholas Brothers
The brothers first became stars during The Harlem Renaissance, an African-American cultural movement which spanned the 1920s and early 1930s.
Fred Astaire told the brothers that the Stormy Weather sequence was "the greatest movie musical number he had ever seen"
And that guy really knew what he was talking about.
