Chair Dance: Expressionism, Post Modernism, and Popular Culture

[Cyclopea]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNAssOFhH20"]YouTube- Chair Dancing Gone Wrong.[/ame]

[Medusa]

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]

Originally Posted by Medusa

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.

[apretty]

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

Originally Posted by Medusa

Does that make sense?

you didn't. i'm dead.

[Bob]

Originally Posted by Medusa

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

Originally Posted by apretty

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]

Originally Posted by Bob

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]

Originally Posted by Medusa

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?

[Medusa]

Originally Posted by Bob

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.

[Medusa]

Originally Posted by apretty

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?

[apretty]

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

[Queerasfck]

Originally Posted by apretty

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.

[Medusa]

Originally Posted by EzeeTiger

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

I object to the objectification of that pug.

That is sexist canineism if I ever saw it.

[apretty]

Originally Posted by EzeeTiger

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

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

[Cyclopea]

My goodness! I'm away from my laptop for a week 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:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtnQfuseMEc"]YouTube- Couch Dance[/ame]

[apretty]

the true story of "f your couch"

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUb06iLjTKA"]YouTube- Rick James Dave Chappelle Pt 2[/ame]

[hippieflowergirl]

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>>>

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqxggjClvbc"]YouTube- USC Staff Retirement Association "Chair Dancing"[/ame]

[Cyclopea]

Originally Posted by hippieflowergirl

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"

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:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCsdgCNFhjg"]YouTube- Unbelievable wheelchair dancer[/ame]
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...

[hippieflowergirl]

Originally Posted by Cyclopea

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...

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]

Originally Posted by hippieflowergirl

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:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EgE6PbBEIc"]YouTube- Gilligan's Island , The Honey Bees You Need Us[/ame]
And Now, back to the topic of chair dancing and those who love it!

[Passionaria]

Originally Posted by Cyclopea

YouTube- Chair Dancing Gone Wrong.

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