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Nathan Barnatt Rocks! in Yelle's Comme Un Enfant (Freaks Remix) & Madeon's Pop Culture

Nathan Barnatt in Yelle's Comme Un Enfant (Freaks Remix)
[Source: Nathan Barnatt]

Why have I not heard of Nathan Barnatt till now? This guy is great!

Look, this isn't going to become the All The World's Nutty Dancers blog but I am so busy sorting out my other business that I haven't been able to do my readers justice. That won't always be the case but, till then, posting stuff that's just too cool not to post will be the game.

Nathan Barnatt & Jenny Fine in Madeon's Pop Culture
[Source: Nathan Barnatt]

I do like him best when he's wilding out. The repetitive side-to-side stuff will wear thin after awhile. Still, Barnatt's a lot of fun.

Mashable has a bit more background.

Official Sites: YouTube ~ Facebook ~ Twitter

Filipino Traffic Cop Dances While He Works

Filipino Traffic Cop Doing His Job Like A Boss

Nice collection of footage of the dancing traffic cop in action. I've seen videos of this guy before and there seem to be lots on YouTube. What a great way to get famous.

I used to have fantasies of moving to Tokyo and dancing every day or week in a spot with a lot of tourists. If you were interesting enough (or weird, in my case) you could get world famous doing that. But I guess fame just wasn't enough motivation for me to make that happen!

Does this qualify as "street dance"?

Robots Wish You Happy Year of the Water Dragon!

Chinese New Year 2012 Dancing Robots [Source: Gizchina]

Hoped to be back in action by now but, no fault to the Water Dragon, had some water leakage at my office that's thrown everything off schedule.

A Taoist teacher I know pulled the I Ching hexagram "Biting Through" for January 19 through 23 and, indeed, I am having to summon quite a bit of tenacity heading into this New Year.

So be it. I'm still planning on having a great 2012 and I hope you will do the same!

Happy Holidays! See You in 2012!

Deer Meets Cat [Source: Viral/Facebook]

I'm sure I'll have more dance news to post before the year's over but I just want to wish All World Dance readers Happy Holidays!

TenduTV Presents Nutcracker Trailers 2011

Nutcracker Trailers 2011 [Source:TenduTV]

Tendu TV has created a YouTube playlist of trailers for The Nutcracker. It's composed of mostly U.S. companies, though I'm guessing they'll be adding additional trailers as they come in, but also includes the film by the Dutch National Ballet.

You can watch the whole series above or pick and choose at YouTube.

Official Site: YouTube: TenduTV

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Pilobolus x MIT's CSAIL = Seraph (Dancing With Robots)

Seraph: Dancing with Robots [Source: MITCSAIL]

Seraph is a solo dance created in collaborative fashion between Pilobolus and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL):

"The quad-rotor flying robots developed in CSAIL Principal Investigator Daniela Rus’ lab were initially intended to fly in small groups without human aid, gathering information on whales for marine biologists, snapping surveillance images across large tracts of land and providing assistance with various telecommunication applications."

"This summer, the quad-rotors, decked out in dazzling strings of lights, took to the stage at the Joyce Theater in New York City on an entirely different sort of mission. Along with the modern dance company Pilobolus, the quad-rotors told the tale of an unusual friendship between robots and humans in a dance set to a Schubert piano trio."

Unfortunately, I know where this is heading. I saw Terminator!

Available at Amazon: Pilobolus

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America's Best Dance Crew Season 7 Auditions

America's Best Dance Crew Season 7 Auditions
[Source: Hip Hop International]

Auditions have been announced for Season 7 of America's Best Dance Crew on MTV.

They're taking place in January and you can register here to reserve a priority audition.

For More Info: ABDC Casting

Available at Amazon: ABDC Goodies

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Winning Videos from 2011 Dance Your Ph.D. Contest

Microstructure-Property relationships in Ti2448 components produced by Selective Laser Melting: A Love Story [Source: Joel Miller]

The winners of the 2011 Dance Your Ph.D. contest were announced back in late October but I just found out about it and I couldn't resist posting:

"Science's fourth annual "Dance Your Ph.D." contest [is] a competition that recognizes the best dance interpretations of scientific doctoral work...The rules of the contest were simple: Each dance had to be based on a scientist's Ph.D. research, and that scientist had to be part of the dance."

A study of social interactivity using pigeon courtship [Source: Emma Ware]

This year's contest had 53 entries from all over the world, too many to post here but definitely worth a look.  The videos on this post are the four finalists with the grand prize winner, Joel Miller, at the top.

Smell mediated response to relatedness of potential mates [Source: Cedric Kai Wei Tan]

I think this is such a great idea and I'm glad to see Science giving it a highly visible platform.  I only found out about it recently via dancer friends sharing the news on Facebook.

The Holy Grail to X-ray crystal structure of human protein phosphatase [Source: FoSheng Hsu]

Looking back at my own Ph.D. experience at Ohio State University, I remember that people in my interdisciplinary Cultural Studies program who were involved in dance and movement studies would often raise the question, "Why can't we dance our dissertations?"

While some would occasionally do alternative presentations in addition to a written dissertation and oral defense, I find it kind of amusing that it was a scientist and science writer who actually popularized the idea of dancing your Ph.D. with a series of videos from doctoral candidates in the sciences!

Big ups to John Bohannon and all the participants!

Official Site: Dance Your Ph.D.

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TEDx Brussels: John Bohannon & Black Label Movement in Dance Your Ph.D.

B-Boy Santa Sneak Attack in Asheville, NC

Dancing Santa - B-Boy Santa Sneak Attack in Asheville, NC
[Source: Explore Asheville]

B-Boy Santa makes the rounds in Asheville!

Official Site: Explore Asheville

TEDx Brussels: John Bohannon & Black Label Movement in Dance Your Ph.D.

John Bohannon & Black Label Movement - Dance Your PhD
[Source: TEDxTALKS]

John Bohannon, creator of the Dance Your Ph.D. Contest, presents at TEDxBrussells. From YouTube:

Music: Greg Brosofske

Dancers: Jessica Elhert, Bryan Godbout, Stephanie Laager, Edward Bruno Oroyan Nelle Hens, Camille Prieux, Mariel Blaise, Gabson Nenaks, David Zagari & Marcio Canabarro

Black Label Movement - Zero Gravity Dance [Source: TEDxTALKS]

Black Label Movement, a dance company from Minneapolis, Minnesota, also performed separately. From YouTube:

"A Speculation in Movement on the Unique Capabilities of Earthbound Dancers to Navigate Zero Gravity Environments"

Music: Greg Brosofske

Physics Advisor: Stephen Steiner

Dancernauts: Jessica Ehlert & Edward Bruno Oroyan

Zero Gravity Puppeteers: John Bohannon, Bryan Godbout, Stephanie Laager, Nelle Hens, Camille Prieux, Mariel Blaise, Gabson Nenaks, David Zagari & Marcio Canabarro

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