Let’s Dance on Old School Friday

It’s Old School Fri­day, and the theme is “Let’s Dance”. I ‘m not much of a dan­cer, at least in public, thin­king of sweaty guys in tee-shirts or guys in suits swi­ve­ling their hips to a salsa never really does it for me. Ok scratch that I do kind of like the swi­ve­ling of hips thing, but only to watch. There are way too many songs to dance to, most peo­ple can pro­bably dance to anything, at least in the pri­vacy of their own homes.

I do have to dance though. I recei­ved a wed­ding invi­ta­tion from a good friend from my last (very first real) job. The invi­ta­tion came with a note sug­ges­ting gifts to a cer­tain cha­rity, but with a codi­cil asking all guests, as a gift to the bride and groom, learn the Syrtaki/Sirtaki, which will be pla­yed in seve­ral sty­les throughout the recep­tion. The Sir­taki, or Zorba’s Dance as it’s called, is the dance cho­reo­graphed by Gior­gos Pro­vias for the com­po­si­tion of the same name by Mikis Theo­do­ra­kis, both the music and the dance were for the film Zorba the Greek. The dance used tra­di­tio­nal Greek folk dan­ces in kind of a mix and ended up with another tra­di­tio­nal Greek folk dance. It is dan­ced all over the world, at wed­dings at bars, on cruise ships, by River­dan­cers and at the ballet. As these things go the talen­ted Anthony Quinn, who was not only an actor but a gif­ted wri­ter and artist, was not Greek but Mexican.

The scene from Zobra the Greek where Anthony Quinn dan­ces this piece on the beach.

This is a poor qua­lity video, but is most com­prehen­sive in that it looks like the whole dance she wants us to learn. Inc­lu­ding those knee dip things. Yikes

I sup­pose if Lucy can do it.…

Jose Feliciano’s version.

Yeah I know it’s almost 3 in the mor­ning on Satur­day, but din­ner with the girls went late. It’s still Fri­day in my heart.

peace

OSF spon­so­red by Con­ver­sa­tions With Marva and Mrs Gra­pe­vine

The pla­yers:

Elec­tro­nic Village | Kim | Kevin — A Slant Truth | Mar­cus LANGFORD | irie­gal | John | CC Groovy | Krea­tive Talk | Regina | Viv­rant Thing | AJ | Belei­ver 1964 | SJP | Bklyn­Queen 86 | Hey Shae | Mal­colm

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June 20, 2009 – 1:51 am | By cooper | Posted in Cooper Culture, Music, old school friday | Tagged | Comments (18)

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