Dawn Hampton and John Dokes. Never you mind what dance we dance, let's watch, listen, learn.
And more of a birthday dance (really good) here. She's 80.
Thursday, 2 April 2009
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Nice Email
"I gave [him] the message. He told me (in Spanish): 'You have no idea how nice it was to dance with her, a real pleasure' (here he was rubbing his heart). 'She enjoys dancing so much and you can feel it when you dance with her, it is a wonderful feeling.'"
9 comments:
i hope and i pray that at 80years young i am still able to hear and move as beautifully as she doe's...music is a powerful thing for many reasons....but most of all it brings us closer to who we are really.
thank you for sharing this i am always happy and this still managaed to to give me a kind of rush...just beautiful....
Brilliant! Thanks for that one.
Noteworthy also how the orchestra is playing for the dancers, in the way the Golden Age orchestras of tango were. They allow dancers to read their music and anticipate changes.
And also, note how the dancers are in the music and work with everything. Beautiful.
And btw, where dancing at old age is concerned, how about dancing at one's 100th birthday. Here's Carmencita Calderon, legendary partner of the legendary El Cachafaz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuLVZnEpg4E
And here she is in the old days:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yv9V-3APpc
*sniffle*
I love it. Here is another one that Jocelyne in Bristol/Bath posted on Facebook. I swear I am going to keep dancing til I can't move anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkHvRCp3z5A
Clickable versions:
Carmencita Calderon at 100
And in 1933
Arlene's link.
It's an interesting thing about the orchestra playing for the dancers. It definitely feels wonderful when there's a real collaboration between real, live musicians and dancers going on and they are paying attention to each other and appreciating each other. I think I see what you are talking about in this case, but I don't know how it's achieved.
Awesome conversation between dancers and musicians. Just inspiring!
The pauses too, show great sensitivity and personality in the elder woman's dance!
Thanks for the inspiration.
E
I really love what John Dokes is doing. It seems so gentle, without sacrificing the fire. Totally in the music. They're great together.
I think you might enjoy this
:o)
I quite liked it, but he needed to cut the whole of the first two paragraphs and tighten up the rest of it by fifty percent. What a sermon! ;D
Yeah but he's learning tango so I forgive him ;o)
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