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This is old news, but I just found out about it.  A guy I know made a big splash in Congress a few months ago:

Rachel Maddow Interviews The Congressional “Speed Reader”
Doug and I worked together at Wayside Theatre in Virginia, and now he is working in the DC area.  I just did a show with [...]

Another week.  Another Friday.  Another reason to dance!  Today’s Dance Party is pretty much how all of my boat parties turn out.

You Tube – Summer Dance
The artist is Lee Jung Hyun from Korea, but she also goes by Ava.
You don’t suppose she’s using this video to launch the cyber attacks, do you?
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Hoo boy, we made it to Friday.  Stand up.  Dance.

YouTube – Tiesto – Dance 4 Life (Live at TMF Awards 2006 Amsterdam
Until the last minute, I thought it would be a Michael Jackson Moonwalk.  Instead I wanted to remember the lives that have been, and celebrate the time that we get.
So get dancing, yo.
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My only post this week, and it may as well be dancing!
The Friday Dance Party today is in honor of Wayside Theatre’s opening of Man of La Mancha. Sounds like it was amazing.

Man of La Mancha – Stephanie Romero
MoLM runs at Wayside through July 4, 2009.  I can’t wait to see it.
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If there was anything I really missed about blogging it was inflicting the Friday Dance Party on the world.
Well, I’m back.  It’s Friday.  And we’re dancing.
I think we’re going to add this number to our current production of Cotton Patch Gospel.  Don’t tell Warner and Steve.  We want it to be a surprise.

DMT – Happy [...]

Friday Dance Party time. This song starts with a little dancing, and is very danceable, but is a little different than my usual dance parties. There's a touch of melancholy

Friday and time for the Dance Party!  So, what would happen if you were walking along minding your own business…and a production number broke out?
This is what would happen…

You Tube - Op zoek naar Maria - Dans in het Centraal Station van Antwerpen
Thanks to Barbara, a great friend to Wayside Theatre, for e-mailing this one to us.  It just makes me smile everytime I think about it.
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Hope you have a great day today.  As promised, here is my favorite chocolate bunny video.  I posted this last year, and it is still as disturbing as it was then.

You Tube - Melty Bunny
(No actual bunnies were harmed in the making of this video. Happy Easter.)
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Friday has come around again.  And that’s Good.  Get it?
Today’s Dance Party comes from my post yesterday about how my siblings and I used to dance to Zorba The Greek on Herb Alpert’s Goin’ Places album.
Well let’s go back to the source and dance!
Or should I say, χορός!

Zorba the Greek - Zorbas Dance (Movie Scene - High Quality)

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I had a wonderful conversation with a woman with whom I will be working later this summer.  She was telling me about some unusual string instruments that she has seen.
In searching for some of the instruments that she mentioned, I came upon the Viola D’Amore.

This is an instrument that goes back at least as far as the 17th Century, but was most popular in the 18th.  It has had many incarnations in its life, but in its most recent iteration it boasts 14 strings.  You only play 7 of them.  The other 7 are sympathetic strings below the fingerboard, that ring out when you play.
The result is beautiful and haunting.  Treat yourself to the video below of Thomas Georgi playing a one-minute snip from Vivaldi’s D major Concerto.  Good choice, since the instrument is most commonly tuned to a D chord.

YouTube - Viola D’amore
Want one?  Of course you do.  Lark in the Morning has one for $3,500.
[photo: Lark in the Morning]
Posted in Music Monday

Time for the Friday Dance Party, and don’t we deserve it?
Someone In Particular pointed this one out to me.  I had never seen it before, even though the song is a few years old.  Regardless, this is the coolest workout I have ever seen.

YouTube - OK Go - Here it Goes Again
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Looks like it’s time for a Friday Dance Party.  Looks like…looking.

YouTube - Nagi Noda
I don’t know why I love this, but I really really do.
Again, I’m taking the weekend off from the blog to be social.  Talk to you again on Monday.  I’ll miss you!
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This is a celebratory Friday Dance Party.  We just had St. Patrick’s Day, today is the first day of spring…and hell it is just Friday.  Lock your upper body and dance!

You Tube - River Dance
There you go.  Stomp out winter you crazy, amazingly well-choreographed steppers.
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Friday Dance Party is on!  Okay kids, your top song on the Billboard 100 is Right Round by Flo Rida.  Here’s what that song looked like when Mommy and Daddy danced to it in 1985.

YouTube - Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
Look up “rad” in your dictionary and that comes jumping out.
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Music Monday today takes us to the tip of Nova Scotia on little Cape Breton Island. A certain style of fiddling has emerged (known as...surprise...the Cape Breton style). It is of Scottish origin, and some say it is a better preservation of traditional Scottish fiddling than you will find in Scotland right now.

This video is a very non-traditional setting of this traditional style. It's from the TED conference and features fiddler Natalie MacMaster and of all people Thomas Dolby. I selected it because y

Music Monday today takes us to the tip of Nova Scotia on little Cape Breton Island. A certain style of fiddling has emerged (known as...surprise...the Cape Breton style).

It is of Scottish origin, and some say it is a better preservation of traditional Scottish fiddling than you will find in Scotland right now.

This video is a very non-traditional setting of this traditional style. It's from the TED conference and features fiddler Natalie MacMaster and of all people Thomas Dolby.

I selected it because y

Friday Dance Party turns twenty today.  Hooray!

You Tube - Henry Fonda dancing in Fort Apache
So in honor of the Dance Party turning twenty, I decided on this clip which includes a twenty-year-old Shirley Temple.
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On a week that contained Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday it’s finally Dance Party Friday.  And why not take it to New Orleans?  Sort of.

YouTube - Elvis Presley - Dixieland Rock
This is from King Creole (1958).  ah-EEEEE.
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Great news everyone!  The Zeusaphone is now available for purchase.  With the Zeusaphone, you can play music through a Tesla Coil.  Definitely, this is cool.  Somehow, this is legal.

Want one?  Of course you do.  It’s $1,900 for a 16-inch arc, but why not go all the way?  $5000 will get you a 60-inch arc.
And a singed roof.
[Thanks to Steve for the original tip!]
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