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Cyclopea

11-24-2009, 06:08 PM

Cyclopea

11-24-2009, 07:16 PM

I like in the first Chair Dance video I posted how the artist sits in the chair, relates to the chair- the sheer physicality of the chair, ultimately relating to the space around the chair, even mimicking (becoming!) the chair, only to ultimately reject the chair entirely. Even whacks it about a bit. Powerful stuff.
:)

Cyclopea

11-24-2009, 07:19 PM

Although not purely a Chair Dance, this routine features a satisfying mix of synchronized Hair Dancing/Chair Dancing. An interesting Chair/Hair juxtaposition, all too rare in the world of dance today.

YouTube- Janelle & Kelly at Hafla Santa Cruz '08!

Passionaria

11-25-2009, 02:00 AM

Chair Dancing as a post modern art form has crossed the fine art/pop culture divide to become the most widespread intersection between high and low culture in the current dance landscape.

What specific qualities contained in the Chair Dancing genre contribute to its status as a treasured art as well as a popular amateur pastime?

Is prop-based or seated dance an inferior or lesser performance of free movement?

Can expressive and classical dance intersect in the choreography of the Chair Dance?

Can Chair Dancing include narrative structure, and if so, how?

These are just a few starter questions open for Chair Dancing discussion.
Whether you are a professional dancer, an aficionado, a movement theoretician, a chairmaker or an amateur Chair Dance practitioner this is the thread for all things Chair Dance. All thoughts, opinions, reflections and links are welcome here.

YouTube- BEST CHAIR DANCE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVWnTwnYVno)

YouTube- chair dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP-dMffPnts)

Cyclopea,
Interesting questions. This is the first chair dance I have watched outside of Demi Moore in Striptease(which was stunning), but I would be happy to share regarding this video.

From experiencing this piece I think the popularity may come from the dancer having an inanimate object to relate to, emotionally. In the first video rather than relating to open space he could play off the chair, which asks nothing in return, as another dancer would demand. So his emotions are amplified, yet it's all about what the dancer is feeling. Great tool if you ask me. It adds another layer of concrete space, to play with.This man is a classically trained dancer, and he used the chair to tell his story. His technique is beautiful, especially his fluidity, that is what made the dance. His ability to express what he was feeling juxtaposed against the audiences preconceived notions of the chair brought clarity in my opinion. As a phenomenon???? I don't get it, it's a prop.

When I watch a dancer, any dancer even in clubs, I want to see what they are feeling. To me dance is a language of non verbal communication. So can they communicate? Do they believe in what they are saying? I can overlook technique if these qualities are present. If there is music can they let it into their soul and use their body as an expression of what they feel? Or are they just moving their body in dictated choreography and style? I can watch a dancer that has impeccable technique, and feel nothing other than appreciation of their training. And another, that may have no training at all, and get very excited about their dance. A good example to me is the movie Dance with me (I think) with Cheyanne and Vanessa Williams. She has impeccable technique and feeling, yet Cheyanne is a much better dancer in my opinion, because she never let's go and gives herself completely, so I feel cheated by her performance. When all the elements come together with impeccable technique, that is magic, and it has nothing to do with props.

What specific qualities contained in the Chair Dancing genre contribute to its status as a treasured art as well as a popular amateur pastime?

I don''t mean to be offensive, but I can't see this form of dance as a "treasured art", any more than clip art can be compared to Raphael.They both are born of line and pen, but their place place in reality is worlds apart. Maybe that is your point?????

Interesting subject Cyclopea, I appreciate the opportunity to have some intellectual repartee on line! Thanks.

Passionaria :ballcat:

Passionaria

11-25-2009, 02:38 AM

Cyclopea

11-25-2009, 11:06 PM

Cyclopea,
Interesting questions. This is the first chair dance I have watched outside of Demi Moore in Striptease(which was stunning), but I would be happy to share regarding this video.

From experiencing this piece I think the popularity may come from the dancer having an inanimate object to relate to, emotionally. In the first video rather than relating to open space he could play off the chair, which asks nothing in return, as another dancer would demand. So his emotions are amplified, yet it's all about what the dancer is feeling. Great tool if you ask me. It adds another layer of concrete space, to play with.This man is a classically trained dancer, and he used the chair to tell his story. His technique is beautiful, especially his fluidity, that is what made the dance. His ability to express what he was feeling juxtaposed against the audiences preconceived notions of the chair brought clarity in my opinion. As a phenomenon???? I don't get it, it's a prop.

I agree that the young man appears to have some classical training (as all trained dancers do). And I am glad that you enjoyed the Chair Dance, as did I. I highlighted a few of your statements above because they touch on the enormous implications of the presence of the chair in the Chair Dance. Or perhaps more properly the "seat": When one choreographs oneself while sitting in the confines of one's automobile for example, is that still a "Chair Dance"? I think the argument can be made.

The relationship between the dancer and the chair is not fixed. As you brought to light above, the audience's "notion" of the chair (as well as the dancer's) lends weight to the narrative of the dance. The impact of the audience's and the performer's projections on the chair's dramatic role and interaction should not be minimized.

Also, the possibility of the chair's notion of itself. I'm not anthropomorphizing here, merely speculating on the individuality of a particular chair. In other words, does a chair have a "soul"? Does a chair that comes brand new from the store have the same essence as a chair that someone's grandmother sat in every night for thirty years? I'm inclined to think such specific history in the life of the chair lends it a certain "selfness". (Or it could just be the antihistamine I am taking.)

Finally, the type of chair or "seat" has unquantifiable influence over not only the dramatic narrative and emotional tone of the performance but places an active role in the choreographical potentiality itself.
Anna Brady Nuse of "greatdance.com" states: "office chairs are too much fun not to think about. The wheels and levers give you so many more choreographic choices than just the standard issue wooden chair. Plus the choreography immediately becomes a statement about work and office culture (hip and unemotive) rather than the cliche topics of lost lovers, or fathers that abandoned us, which normal run-of-the-mill chair dances are about."

And what of the ottomans? The rockers? The Adirondacks, Beanbags and EZboys?

When I watch a dancer, any dancer even in clubs, I want to see what they are feeling. To me dance is a language of non verbal communication. So can they communicate? Do they believe in what they are saying? I can overlook technique if these qualities are present. If there is music can they let it into their soul and use their body as an expression of what they feel? Or are they just moving their body in dictated choreography and style? I can watch a dancer that has impeccable technique, and feel nothing other than appreciation of their training. And another, that may have no training at all, and get very excited about their dance. A good example to me is the movie Dance with me (I think) with Cheyanne and Vanessa Williams. She has impeccable technique and feeling, yet Cheyanne is a much better dancer in my opinion, because she never let's go and gives herself completely, so I feel cheated by her performance. When all the elements come together with impeccable technique, that is magic, and it has nothing to do with props.

I hear that you resonate more with free dancing and expressionism, and appreciate your personal preferences. But your repeated statements claiming Chair Dancing is just dance "with a prop" is belied by the Chair Dance's status as the most widespread and populous form of dancing worldwide. Why not mop dancing? Cane dancing? Hat dancing? And before you bring up the ubiquity of chairs as the reason: Hair dancing? What could be more ubiquitous than hair?

Even Neitzche, the godfather of postmodernism stated: "And we should consider every day lost on which we have not (chair)danced at least once."

What specific qualities contained in the Chair Dancing genre contribute to its status as a treasured art as well as a popular amateur pastime?

I don''t mean to be offensive, but I can't see this form of dance as a "treasured art", any more than clip art can be compared to Raphael.They both are born of line and pen, but their place place in reality is worlds apart. Maybe that is your point?????

Interesting subject Cyclopea, I appreciate the opportunity to have some intellectual repartee on line! Thanks.

Passionaria :ballcat:

Thank you for your thoughts Passionaria.
You made me smile! ;)

YouTube- The Swivel Chair - Dance @ Work

Cyclopea

11-25-2009, 11:09 PM

I find Gothic Belly dance to be incredibly exciting. Of the emerging styles in dance that I have seen, this really moves me.

YouTube- The Gothic Bellydance DVD : WorldDanceNewYork.com : DVDs Shipped Worldwide! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvcGKFiO-xs)

:2cents: Pashi

That moved me too. Very much so. :drool:
Even if it had no chairs...

Passionaria

11-26-2009, 01:55 AM

Thank you for your thoughts Passionaria.
You made me smile! ;)

YouTube- The Swivel Chair - Dance @ Work (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmfC5gpKYNI)

:thumbsup: I love it! I am so happy you have a sense of humor. I actually thought of you several times today hoping I wasn't too brutal. Dance is a passion of mine.The first time I saw the Gothic belly dance I was floored. It has been presented so Traditionally for so long, then to see it break out like this, from sensual Male entertainment, to Powerful, as in women taking theirs, well, le sigh. Hope you have a wonderful Holiday

:candle: Passionaria

Cyclopea

11-26-2009, 06:24 PM

Passionaria

11-27-2009, 01:16 AM

I DO have a sense of humor! ;)
A bit of a dry one perhaps...and believe me when I say that no comment on Chair Dancing could possibly offend me. :cracked:

On another note, yes I love the bellydance/burlesque/goth video you posted.

This is where I was going to post about the travails of completing my phd thesis on the Chair Dance, but perhaps instead I should fess up and tell that I know nothing about dance per se, and have no education and just find Chair Dancing very amusing. (I was just bullshitting about all that highfalutin stuff!)

I am a very silly person. :jester:

Thank you for playing, and I hope you have a wonderful holiday as well.
:gimmehug:

YouTube- IIE Holiday Party (2) Chair Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDiSaoO1ZYY)

{{{Cyclopea}}}
I enjoy the intellectual repartee. I've read some of your comments and I know you are intelligent, perceptive and educated. You actually look things up, and apply the definitions, and your screen name has multiple implications depending on intent. Interest in Cultic Psychology and the social implications? Giggling, I had to look that one up.

I only know a few people who use the word juxtaposed, and they are all Artists. Chair Dance could be a PhD topic, and if it were, the questions presented would be appropriate. LOL my Mother wrote her dissertation on the Power of the Drum in healing, for her PhD in Transpersonal Psychology. Deep breath, gathering information and reading between the lines is a great deal of my profession. It's how my brain works. So, there we go.

I was a classically trained dancer before the age of 21, now I just dance socially, but my heart and soul remain entranced in the art of movement, and it's social as well as interpersonal implications. Which at times have involved chair dancing, of sorts. So, playing, what do I do for a living???? If you like...

Warmly, :gimmehug:
Passionaria

Cyclopea

11-28-2009, 11:45 AM

{{{Cyclopea}}}
I enjoy the intellectual repartee. I've read some of your comments and I know you are intelligent, perceptive and educated. You actually look things up, and apply the definitions, and your screen name has multiple implications depending on intent. Interest in Cultic Psychology and the social implications? Giggling, I had to look that one up.

I only know a few people who use the word juxtaposed, and they are all Artists. Chair Dance could be a PhD topic, and if it were, the questions presented would be appropriate. LOL my Mother wrote her dissertation on the Power of the Drum in healing, for her PhD in Transpersonal Psychology. Deep breath, gathering information and reading between the lines is a great deal of my profession. It's how my brain works. So, there we go.

I was a classically trained dancer before the age of 21, now I just dance socially, but my heart and soul remain entranced in the art of movement, and it's social as well as interpersonal implications. Which at times have involved chair dancing, of sorts. So, playing, what do I do for a living???? If you like...

Warmly, :gimmehug:
Passionaria

Thank You Passionaria,

I'm glad you have kept Chair Dancing alive in your life...
I have no idea what you do for a living, I'm guessing not a sociologist or anthropologist or related profession. Your mom has a Phd so I'm guessing you are also well educated. You deeply love dance and movement so clearly an interest in creativity and the arts, You write well so probably a career that uses that skill, You ask me to guess your profession, so you likely place a very high premium on your career, and the answer is probably notably fascinating.
OK I'm gonna guess either a bounty hunter or a professional wrestler.
Or a teacher.
But not a teacher of the Chair Dance.
:ninja:

Passionaria

11-29-2009, 02:31 AM

Thank You Passionaria,

I'm glad you have kept Chair Dancing alive in your life...
I have no idea what you do for a living, I'm guessing not a sociologist or anthropologist or related profession. Your mom has a Phd so I'm guessing you are also well educated. You deeply love dance and movement so clearly an interest in creativity and the arts, You write well so probably a career that uses that skill, You ask me to guess your profession, so you likely place a very high premium on your career, and the answer is probably notably fascinating.
OK I'm gonna guess either a bounty hunter or a professional wrestler.
Or a teacher.
But not a teacher of the Chair Dance.
:ninja:

Cyclopea,
Oh lord it was late what can I say??? Bounty Hunter is correct!!!!! Hows that for a profile addition. And I wonder why I'm single, LOL

On a less thread derailing note this chair dance phenomenon has been playing through my mind. Especially since I watched the last video where the young man is doing a sexy dance with the chair and this is what has percolated up to the surface of my mind> no animals were hurt in the making of this......

On a sociological and psychological level:

1. Is it easier for this young man to relate sensually to an inanimate object than to a real woman?
2. Would he be able to dance for a real woman at all?
3.Does an inanimate object such as a chair free a persons emotional expression, and allow them to express feelings more honestly than with another person?
4. If so what is the reason for this?

In a society that functions with a minimal amount of honest emotional interactions, where emotional repression is rampant as well as encouraged,is it easier to trust an inanimate object than it is another human being? Even if you lack the skills to express emotion and feelings eloquently, the chair will not judge you, laugh at you or reject you. It is a safe space to unlock your true feelings, and express them openly. On that level the chair becomes a tool for therapy and personal exploration.A "safe place" for creative expression.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend,
:blueheels:Passionaria:blueheels:

Cyclopea

11-29-2009, 03:53 PM

Very interesting questions!

On a sociological and psychological level:

1. Is it easier for this young man to relate sensually to an inanimate object than to a real woman?
Not knowing the young man personally makes a definitive answer impossible, but clearly relating to an inanimate object allows the young man to purely express his internal sensuality sans human reciprocity.
Therefore his performance is a display of himself, as opposed to a display of his relationship with another dancer. Which begs the question: would he relate the same way to the chair in the absence of the voyeuristic gaze of the audience/camera? I think not. Chair Dance performed in public is always informed by a relationship between the dancer and the viewer.

2. Would he be able to dance for a real woman at all?
Again, he IS dancing for a real woman- for every man and woman in the audience. He is merely using the chair as a subject. As to the question “Would he be able to dance with a real woman as subject?” he presumably could, but her role as both subject and audience and co-performer (both for him and the audience) would change his choreographical options and choices.

3.Does an inanimate object such as a chair free a persons emotional expression, and allow them to express feelings more honestly than with another person?
I see two questions here. First, does dancing with an inanimate object rather than another dancer increase the honesty or purity of the artists expression. I believe I speculated on this in my answer above.
The second question I see raised here is the specificity of the object being danced with, that being a chair. As mentioned in a previous post, a chair is not interchangeable with other inanimate objects. The role of the chair is profoundly steeped in cultural memes, and has a relationship to the artist not duplicated by any other object. Therefore the second question is: ”Does dancing with a Chair, rather than another dancer increase the honesty or purity of the artists expression?” To that question I would say the presence of the chair immeasurably increases the honesty and purity of the artists expression as relates to those themes contained in the chair itself, as well as obviously the choreographic choices based on the physical structure of the chair in question.

4. If so what is the reason for this?

In a society that functions with a minimal amount of honest emotional interactions, where emotional repression is rampant as well as encouraged,is it easier to trust an inanimate object than it is another human being? Even if you lack the skills to express emotion and feelings eloquently, the chair will not judge you, laugh at you or reject you. It is a safe space to unlock your true feelings, and express them openly. On that level the chair becomes a tool for therapy and personal exploration.A "safe place" for creative expression.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend,
:blueheels:Passionaria:blueheels:

Again, I cannot conflate “Chair” with “generic inanimate object.” I do find it interesting that the young man at the office holiday party never once “occupied” the chair (unless one could hypothesize that a chair under weighted gaze actually becomes “occupied”).

Volumes have been philosophized about chairs, both occupied and not. It’s interesting that you bring up the unoccupied chair as a tool of therapeutic value and “safety” since whole fields of psychology have been devoted to the unoccupied chair, specifically or largely in cognitive and gestalt therapies in which the “empty chair” assumes an active role in the therapy itself, and a tool for the clients projection towards conceptualized others, parts of himself, and even towards abstractions.
Much of the study of ergonomics and industrial design is rooted in psychology as well, sometimes formally so.

The unoccupied chair represents profound psychological implications in all human cultures. The League of The Empty Chair defines these qualities as such: “emptiness/ unhomeliness/ unheimlichkeit/ lack of belonging/ uncanniness”.
It is these qualities that animate “Chair”, whether it is the unoccupied chair customarily present at all American Legion meetings, the unoccupied chair left for Elijah the Prophet at the Seder table, or the field of empty chairs that comprises the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial, where not only the presence of, but the size, shape, and positioning of each chair informs the viewer/audience/witness.
The occupied chair represents opposing qualities (homeliness, belonging, comfort).
At no time is “Chair” simply interchangeable with a generic inanimate object in human culture. And it is this specificity which informs the art of the Chair Dance.

Thank You for sharing your interesting thoughts on the Chair Dance.
And be careful out there apprehending perps!
:byebye:
YouTube- Don Mclean - empty chairs

Passionaria

11-29-2009, 09:06 PM

Thank you for this. You really made me think, and I appreciate that.I learned something from this, how refreshing. I will be back after I apprehend a few criminals.
:batman: Pashi

Cyclopea

12-10-2009, 01:49 PM

YouTube- Chair Dancing Gone Wrong.

Medusa

12-10-2009, 02:39 PM

Is our valuation and digestion of the chair in question heavily determined by the gender presentation of the dancer themselves?

Does that make sense?

Cyclopea

12-10-2009, 04:20 PM

Is our valuation and digestion of the chair in question heavily determined by the gender presentation of the dancer themselves?

Does that make sense?

Define gender.
:superfunny:

apretty

12-14-2009, 04:15 PM

in no uncertain pre-post modern terms, i'm certain this thread is silencing me.

Does that make sense?

you didn't. i'm dead.

Bob

12-14-2009, 04:28 PM

Is our valuation and digestion of the chair in question heavily determined by the gender presentation of the dancer themselves?

in no uncertain pre-post modern terms, i'm certain this thread is silencing me.

Because the chair's gender presentation is consistently being downplayed, overlooked, and generally ignored in this thread, I'm pretty sure it's the chair being silenced. Don't even get me started on the overweening and overbearing amounts of human privilege here.

Medusa

12-14-2009, 04:29 PM

in no uncertain pre-post modern terms, i'm certain this thread is silencing me.

you didn't. i'm dead.

Dress, you are stalking me all over the internet and are a mean girl. I insist that you stop derailing this conversation and allow us to continue in peace.

Does that make sense?

Medusa

12-14-2009, 04:30 PM

Because the chair's gender presentation is consistently being downplayed, overlooked, and generally ignored in this thread, I'm pretty sure it's the chair being silenced. Don't even get me started on the overweening and overbearing amounts of human privilege here.

Unless you identify as a chair, you have no authority to speak for the chair.

*snort*

Bob

12-14-2009, 04:38 PM

Unless you identify as a chair, you have no authority to speak for the chair.

*snort*

Not that it's any a yer bidness, but a little reading to your left might answer this. Some presumption pie with your tedious tea?

apretty

12-14-2009, 04:38 PM

i'm a chair-dance-sensual femme. i'm not attracted to recliners (they disgust me).

Medusa

12-14-2009, 04:46 PM

Not that it's any a yer bidness, but a little reading to your left might answer this. Some presumption pie with your tedious tea?

Well how convenient! Understanding that everyone's presentation is mutable, it is simply BUNK to transmutate according to conversation. I demand that you stay in your appropriate box.

Bob

12-14-2009, 04:51 PM

Well how convenient! Understanding that everyone's presentation is mutable, it is simply BUNK to transmutate according to conversation.

So now you're demeaning beds? I demand that the moderators of this site remove your officious, offensive bunk-and-chair-phobic comments since they have been exposed for the odiferous stool that they are.

Hudson

12-14-2009, 05:36 PM

I'm gonna have to sit with this for awhile but I'll be back

Btw, are SOFFAs allowed to participate?

Queerasfck

12-14-2009, 09:07 PM

i'm a chair-dance-sensual femme. i'm not attracted to recliners (they disgust me).

How do you feel about Eames Chairs? I think we could connect.

http://21.media.tumblr.com/BqW1NiIh6hfnx7ribvuLiblAo1_500.jpg

Medusa

12-14-2009, 10:24 PM

How do you feel about Eames Chairs? I think we could connect.

http://21.media.tumblr.com/BqW1NiIh6hfnx7ribvuLiblAo1_500.jpg

I object to the objectification of that pug.

That is sexist canineism if I ever saw it.

Passionaria

12-14-2009, 11:15 PM

YouTube- Chair Dancing Gone Wrong. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNAssOFhH20)

That was hilarious! Note to self, use heavy chair. :giggle: Pashi

apretty

12-15-2009, 09:05 AM

How do you feel about Eames Chairs? I think we could connect.

http://21.media.tumblr.com/BqW1NiIh6hfnx7ribvuLiblAo1_500.jpg

correction: i am an eamespug-sensual-femme. do me, do me hard.

Cyclopea

12-17-2009, 08:15 PM

My goodness! I'm away from my laptop for a week :shocking: and all heck breaks loose in the chair dancing thread!
(as in, someone besides me and Passionaria posted...)

How come every time someone starts a chair dancing thread it sparks such controversy? Why do the couch dancers always have to feel excluded? Why do cane dancers feel offended? All the acrimony and flaming and personal attacks! This never happens in the clog dancing threads!
*sigh*

One for the couch dancers:
YouTube- Couch Dance

apretty

12-18-2009, 08:51 AM

the true story of "f your couch"

YouTube- Rick James Dave Chappelle Pt 2

Cyclopea

12-18-2009, 12:01 PM

the true story of "f your couch"

YouTube- Rick James Dave Chappelle Pt 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUb06iLjTKA)

"Slap!"
If he had only stuck to couch dancin' the world would be a more peaceful place...

YouTube- PLANETARY DANCE with ANNA HALPRIN: Make Peace with the Planet

Passionaria

12-20-2009, 04:09 AM

YouTube- TANGO FIRE - Verano Portenas

:cc: Passionaria

julieisafemme

12-20-2009, 10:45 AM

Cyclopea

12-20-2009, 12:05 PM

YouTube- TANGO FIRE - Verano Portenas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFeAwZslAHY)

:cc: Passionaria

That is a fantastic example of the chair dance!
Loved it!
:clap:

Cyclopea

12-20-2009, 12:19 PM

As a Jew I am so offended that the Jewish experience has been completely ignored in this discussion. Is there some anti-semitism going on here?

Also as someone who is challenged by posting You Tube films properly I am feeling silenced.

I am posting the link from my ME space in the way that I know how to do it.

YouTube- Wedding Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27HaeH7Eg2A)

Now *this* is a chair dance!!!:israel:

On behalf of all the goyum in the chair dance community I'd like to offer a sincere apology for the antisemitism and exclusion displayed by the previous absence of the great Jewish Wedding Chair Dance in this thread.

Thank you for correcting this imbalance with your excellent post. Some of my best friends are Jewish. Or at least some of my best friend's friends.
Well I know a few anyway. At least I think so. We suspect they are. You can't always tell.

By way of apology let me post a beautiful song by that great Jewish Diva, Barbra Streisand. Lekhaim!
YouTube- BARBRA STREISAND - Christmas Mem'ries

Cyclopea

12-24-2009, 01:06 PM

One of the most memorable and unique holiday chair dance performances in the history of the art.

A true symbiosis between dancer and chair- en pointe!

The artist dresses in pantsuit to match the chair (almost), and remains firmly riveted to the goldleaf bamboo-sateen seat, which she strokes, rubs, and touches in a manner that conveys true love of the chair, and the act of sitting.

Interesting use of seated snakedance, exopthalmic synchronized eye movements, jazz-hand-and-toe-combo (!) and some unique head/shoulder action that initially “reads” as some sort of tic or spasticity but is then revealed to be part of the self-styled choreography.

Ample use of dry ice and tossing of glitter underlines the “otherness” of both holiday mythology, and the chair dance itself.

Sublime. Enjoy!

YouTube- Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again - Snowtime Special
Happy Holidays!

:cc::stocking::driedel::stocking::present:

hippieflowergirl

12-26-2009, 08:27 PM

as a self-identified non-gender specific non-chair (who is brilliant and has command of a vast vocabulary that is better than yours) i object to the anti-non-chair language of this thread and will be reporting you to both the carpenter's and the fabricator's unions post haste.

additionally, to prove that non-gender specific non-chairs have just as much if not more talent as chairs (gender specific or otherwise) i have included a video presentation (complete with detailed instructions compliments of my impressively expensive and extremely superior academic qualifications) of our extreme gloriosity which will shame mere furniture everywhere into immediate and humbled silence.

it is with great honor and pseudo-humility that i present to you...

The Superior Academic Dancers - Neo Evolutionary Retro Dance Symposium 2009

<<<insert SAD NERDS Video here>>>

YouTube- USC Staff Retirement Association "Chair Dancing"

Cyclopea

12-27-2009, 03:56 AM

as a self-identified non-gender specific non-chair
Non-chairs are welcome in this thread as long as they are allies of chairs, or chair dancers (amateur or professional) or chair dancing supporters and aficionados.
(who is brilliant and has command of a vast vocabulary that is better than yours)
And who are modest
i object to the anti-non-chair language of this thread and will be reporting you to both the carpenter's and the fabricator's unions post haste.
My team of attorneys will respond to you shortly... And while you do not ID as "chair", you are still a surface upon which to sit (or dance) No?
it is with great honor and pseudo-humility that i present to you...

The Superior Academic Dancers - Neo Evolutionary Retro Dance Symposium 2009

<<<insert SAD NERDS Video here>>>
The idea that gender undefined non-chairs are sad nerds is indeed sad! We support you in your efforts to achieve peace and happiness (but nerds are cool so have at it).
YouTube- USC Staff Retirement Association "Chair Dancing" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqxggjClvbc)
That Retired USC Staff Association video is really sweet, although badly filmed. As someone who has personally conducted low-impact seated exercise programs for mobility impaired folks I can assure readers that there is a serious, therapeutic side (no joking here) to seated exercise and dance. And then there are some folks who have no legs, or no use of their legs. They take seated dance seriously, dance circles around those who are typically abled, and Kick Ass, chair-dance wise...
Like this couple, who put most mobility-typical couples to shame:
YouTube- Unbelievable wheelchair dancer
Not so funny tonight, but more a "fan" mood inspired by your USC Video post..
Blessings and thanks to all the amazing dancers who dance and let nothing (like being seated) get in their way. Sorry to break away from the satire for a minute but I've been pondering how to say this since I introduced the thread...
:stillheart:
:rrose:

hippieflowergirl

12-27-2009, 08:44 PM

That Retired USC Staff Association video is really sweet, although badly filmed. As someone who has personally conducted low-impact seated exercise programs for mobility impaired folks I can assure readers that there is a serious, therapeutic side (no joking here) to seated exercise and dance. And then there are some folks who have no legs, or no use of their legs. They take seated dance seriously, dance circles around those who are typically abled, and Kick Ass, chair-dance wise...
Like this couple, who put most mobility-typical couples to shame:
YouTube- Unbelievable wheelchair dancer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCsdgCNFhjg)
Not so funny tonight, but more a "fan" mood inspired by your USC Video post..
Blessings and thanks to all the amazing dancers who dance and let nothing (like being seated) get in their way. Sorry to break away from the satire for a minute but I've been pondering how to say this since I introduced the thread...
:stillheart:
:rrose:

as a MODEST, neurologically challenged and otherly-abled non-gender specific non-chair who can be sat upon if you want a fight on your hands, i find music my saving grace with regard to creating non-dance movement. i often hum to get my brain to engage, to move when and how i choose, to coordinate hands with eyes, to walk without tripping...to walk in general.

i sort of like the addition of little musical interludes to my life...except the days when all i can think of to hum is the theme song to Gilligan's Island. bleh... it was the first song that came to mind in OT. now i cant get rid of it.

Cyclopea

12-27-2009, 11:39 PM

as a MODEST, neurologically challenged and otherly-abled non-gender specific non-chair who can be sat upon if you want a fight on your hands, i find music my saving grace with regard to creating non-dance movement. i often hum to get my brain to engage, to move when and how i choose, to coordinate hands with eyes, to walk without tripping...to walk in general.

i sort of like the addition of little musical interludes to my life...except the days when all i can think of to hum is the theme song to Gilligan's Island. bleh... it was the first song that came to mind in OT. now i cant get rid of it.

Hopefully even a non-chair non-dancer who frequents chair-dancing threads can appreciate the honeybees go-go dance:
YouTube- Gilligan's Island , The Honey Bees You Need Us
And Now, back to the topic of chair dancing and those who love it!

Crone

01-10-2010, 12:32 AM

I honestly do not know what a chair dance is!
However, it's time to get googling.

I suppose I could imagine what it is. But then by the complexity of the first post, one would think it is beyond that.

Crone

: )