Tuesday, 22 August 2006
Elders Dancing in the Street
Anton, who lives in the U.K. and goes by antnhec at YouTube, alerted me to one of his videos which he titles, Blinking Ballet. I found it mesmerizing, almost-but-not-quite surreal and lovely to look at. Perhaps you will find it so too. The music is from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.
Anton tells me via email that some of the dancers were booked specially for the video shoot and others are passersby who stopped and asked to be included.
Posted by Ronni Bennett at 06:14 AM | Permalink | Email this post
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Hi Ronni,
You might try Steve Garfield with help on the video problem. You may be able to contact him through Millie or his website.
http://stevegarfield.com/”>Steve Garfield Video Blogging
Posted by: Alan G on Aug 22, 2006 9:16:06 AM
Me again...
Not sure why the link is not working. Here is the URL for Steve's website.
Posted by: Alan G on Aug 22, 2006 9:23:03 AM
In the html, change the value for width and height in both places. If you change just the width and delete the height, then it will reduce the size proportionately.
Posted by: M Sinclair Stevens on Aug 22, 2006 9:36:26 AM
You might try the tiny people at http://tinyurl.com/
Seems to work well though I've used it only once.
Posted by: Kate on Aug 22, 2006 10:02:53 AM
Ah, nothing to it with your instructions, M Sinclair. Thank you so much.
Posted by: Ronni Bennett on Aug 22, 2006 10:03:35 AM
that was a great video. I am always amazed at the diversity of what is on UTube. It takes a lot to sort through for the gems like that one. A good way to start my morning
Posted by: Rain on Aug 22, 2006 10:08:22 AM
Thank you for this, Ronni!
Posted by: AlwaysQuestion on Aug 22, 2006 10:11:50 AM
This was a lovely way to start the morning. The beauty of dance and the joy of sharing in it shines through the entire piece. Thank you for sharing this.
Posted by: ardi on Aug 22, 2006 10:56:38 AM
I love that piece of music! It is the theme music for my husband's favourite football (soccer to you guys) team. They play it before the boys run out onto the pitch at every home game. For this reason I am VERY familiar with it. "March of the Knights" The dancers were great too. I think there was some Scottish country dancing steps thrown in there for good measure. Thanks for the laugh.
Posted by: Peggy on Aug 22, 2006 11:01:49 AM
Thank you Ronni! I smiled thru the whole thing.......lovely. Dee
Posted by: Dee on Aug 22, 2006 12:12:54 PM
You described this perfectly, Ronni. It was indeed mesmerizing and certainly brought a smile to my face along with an over-all good feeling. Thanks for sharing it. I enjoyed it a lot.
Posted by: Terri on Aug 22, 2006 12:55:06 PM
Lovey, thanks
Posted by: Claude on Aug 22, 2006 2:17:11 PM
Wow. That just filled me with good feelings about people. Thank you.
Posted by: schmutzie on Aug 22, 2006 2:28:04 PM
Just lovely!
Posted by: kenju on Aug 22, 2006 4:08:43 PM
Pretty darn cool!
Posted by: Cathy on Aug 22, 2006 8:19:37 PM
Well, I finally got up nerve to sing on my blog!So you see, you are getting through. By the way, I took the liberty of linking your blog to my East of Eden Blog. We both read you faithfully each day. Keep it up!
Roger
Posted by: Roger Bourland on Aug 22, 2006 9:25:23 PM
What a fascinating piece! I was completely captivated. Thank you.
Verna
Posted by: Verna on Aug 23, 2006 12:44:07 AM
I enjoyed this ballet, video and music -- refreshingly different.
If you become aware of any more such unique videos, hope you'll post them.
Nice to have a break from so many serious issues in the world though I'm not suggesting we forget them.
Posted by: joared on Aug 23, 2006 2:50:24 AM
Oh, this is wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing it. Amazing how such a simple thing makes one feel so good!
Posted by: Jean on Aug 23, 2006 5:15:13 AM
I wonder how they did that?
thanks Ronni
Posted by: DellaB on Aug 23, 2006 7:18:37 AM
