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Dancers tumble in and out of love as the ground spins beneath their feet | Aeon Videos

As the ground spins beneath their feet and Frank Sinatra croons ‘My Way’, Yoann Bourgeois’s dancers tumble in and out of love

Dancers tumble in and out of love as the ground spins beneath their feet

As performed by Frank Sinatra, the song ‘My Way’ (1969) is an act of bravado, with his forceful crooning underscoring lyrics about living life on one’s own terms, and without many regrets. But its original French version ‘Comme d’habitude’ (1967), which translates as ‘As Usual’, tells a different story – one of falling out of love. While set to Sinatra’s version, this performance from the French choreographer Yoann Bourgeois seems to allude to the song’s original meaning, as a troupe of male and female dancers chase, embrace and tumble, all while maintaining their balance on a rotating platform. Excerpted from the Bourgeois piece Celui qui tombe (He Who Falls), the performance offers an enchanting meditation on the cyclical nature of life – no matter where you stand on Ol’ Blue Eyes’ most polarising hit.

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Choreographer: Yoann Bourgeois

Website: Tanz im August

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Although the official number of deaths caused by Covid-19 is now 7M, our single best estimate is that the actual toll is 27.1M people. We find that there is a 95% chance that the true value lies between 17.9M and 32.9M additional deaths.

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The Colorful Work of Ukrainian Artist Maria Prymachenko

Maria Prymachenko is one of Ukraine's best-known artists. Known for her colorful, expressive, and "primitive" style, P

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In an excerpt from his new book This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan writes about caffeine, a performance enhancing drug th

Michael Pollan on caffeine. "90% of humans ingest caffeine regularly, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world, and the only one we routinely give to children."

“Daily, caffeine proposes itself as the optimal solution to the problem caffeine creates.”

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