Is the Macarena a folk dance?
nic
Is the Macarena a folk dance?
nik
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It is true that two men can lift a bigger stone than one man. A group
can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a
factory is cheaper and more uniform. When our food and clothing and
housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass
method is bound to get into our thinking. In our time mass or
collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and
even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea
collective for the idea god. This in my time is the danger.
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have
declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.
By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and
stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free roving mind is being
pursued, roped, blunted, drugged. It is a sad suicidal course our
species seems to have taken.
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the
individual humans the most valuable thing in the world. And this I
would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it
wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion,
or government which limits and destroys the individual. This is what I
am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a
pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is the one thing
which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand
this, and I hate it and will fight against it to preserve the one thing
that separates us from uncreative beasts.
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Art Hurst
Macarena is a folk dance. Alternatively each could easily be considered
a simple incentive to induce profitable consumption in bars and night
clubs in the same vein as "Western Dance".
Art Hurst
Jake Thomson
nic wrote:
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> Is the Macarena a folk dance?
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> nik
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Paraphrasing Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, of course the Macarena's a folk
dance. All dancing is folk dancing, you don't see horses dancing do you?
SBadarau
In <3331B1...@lafn.org> Art Hurst <ae...@lafn.org> writes:
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>nic wrote:
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>> Is the Macarena a folk dance?
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>> nik
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> If you believe that the "Chicken Dance" is a folk dance, then the
>Macarena is a folk dance. Alternatively each could easily be
considered
>a simple incentive to induce profitable consumption in bars and night
>clubs in the same vein as "Western Dance".
>
> Art Hurst
These are also good ways to get non-dancers up on the dance floor at
parties, since *anyone* can do these "dances" and *everyone* looks just
as silly as everyone else! :) And once they're on the dance floor,
maybe they'll stick around for some real dances. Those who don't want
to bother can use the time to grab some water or fresh air or run to
the restroom. - Janis
Ed Jay
opi...@ix.netcom.com(SBadarau) wrote:
>In <3331B1...@lafn.org> Art Hurst <ae...@lafn.org> writes:
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>>nic wrote:
>>>
>>> Is the Macarena a folk dance?
>>>
>>> nbr...@cs.ucla.edu
>>>
>> If you believe that the "Chicken Dance" is a folk dance, then the
>>Macarena is a folk dance. Alternatively each could easily be
>>considered a simple incentive to induce profitable consumption in bars
>>and night clubs in the same vein as "Western Dance".
>>
>> Art Hurst
>
>These are also good ways to get non-dancers up on the dance floor at
>parties, since *anyone* can do these "dances" and *everyone* looks just
>as silly as everyone else! :) And once they're on the dance floor,
>maybe they'll stick around for some real dances. Those who don't want
>to bother can use the time to grab some water or fresh air or run to
>the restroom. - Janis
I thought that after doing/watching the Macarena, everyone needs fresh
air and must run to the restroom. :)
Ed c];^?
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nic
> If you believe that the "Chicken Dance" is a folk dance
Yes. Never thought of that; make sense.
nik
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Tanya
nic wrote:
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> > you don't see horses dancing do you?
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Actually.... I did see a horse that could line-dance on "Real TV". His
rhythm was a bit off, but considering he has to deal with 4 legs vs. 2,
he wasn't doing too badly. :o)
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Regards,
Tanya
"We are what we are, and what we are is an illusion."
- La Cage aux Folles
nic
> you don't see horses dancing do you?
Horses don't dance?
Cats dance.
nik
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Horses definitely dance. See the Spanish Riding Academy of Vienna. The
horses learn all sorts of dance steps. In fact, horses have restless
feet like all natural dancers.
Sandra Lee Wollin
Tanya <tl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>nic wrote:
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>> > you don't see horses dancing do you?
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>> Horses don't dance?
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>rhythm was a bit off, but considering he has to deal with 4 legs vs. 2,
>he wasn't doing too badly. :o)
>
>--
>Regards,
>Tanya
>
>"We are what we are, and what we are is an illusion."
> - La Cage aux Folles
Horses actually can dance. Just watch the Lippizzan Stallions perform
their Airs in their glorious baroque home in Vienna, and it is as
beautiful as any ballet. Also, drassage is now being choreographed to
music, as of the last Olympics. It was extrordinary!
Sandra
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amy beth pummill
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Tanya wrote:
> nic wrote:
> >
> > > you don't see horses dancing do you?
> >
> > Horses don't dance?
>
> Actually.... I did see a horse that could line-dance on "Real TV". His
> rhythm was a bit off, but considering he has to deal with 4 legs vs. 2,
> he wasn't doing too badly. :o)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Tanya
>
> "We are what we are, and what we are is an illusion."
> - La Cage aux Folles
well, with a can of raid, you can make a spider dance a pretty fancy jig! ;-)
amy :-)
JCDill
Sandra Lee Wollin <SLWO...@worldnet.att.net> mentions:
>Horses actually can dance. Just watch the Lippizzan Stallions perform
>their Airs in their glorious baroque home in Vienna, and it is as
>beautiful as any ballet. Also, drassage is now being choreographed to
>music, as of the last Olympics. It was extrordinary!
It's "dressage", and when done to music it is called a Dressage Kur.
Choregraphing a Kur is like choregraphing a Skating routine, you have
to include the required elements of the level you are competing at,
and pick music that fits your (and your horse's) style and appearance,
and put the moves together with the intermediate pieces (steps between
the big important moves) all with the music.
Kur is what *will* bring Dressage into your front room. Watching a
standard dressage show is like watching the compulsory part of a
skating contest (or the compulsory part of ice dancing where every
couple is doing the same routine to the same song), for the
uninitiated it is as exciting as watching paint dry. Kur performances
are each unique, different, the personality of the rider (and
horsinality of the horse, horses don't have personalities... duh!)
allows each ride to have variation and excitement.
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amy beth pummill wrote:
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> On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Tanya wrote:
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> > >
> > > > you don't see horses dancing do you?
> > >
> > > Horses don't dance?
> >
> > rhythm was a bit off, but considering he has to deal with 4 legs vs. 2,
> > he wasn't doing too badly. :o)
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Tanya
> >
> > "We are what we are, and what we are is an illusion."
> > - La Cage aux Folles
> well, with a can of raid, you can make a spider dance a pretty fancy jig! ;-)
> amy :-)
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Martin Kiff
>Horses don't dance?
You're probably not watching enough Morris.
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nic
> You're probably not watching enough Morris.
What is Morris?
nik
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Richard Aigen
nic <notmyrea...@ucla.edu> wrote:
>> You're probably not watching enough Morris.
>
>What is Morris?
>
>
>nik
>
http://value.net/~jonb/berkmorris/
Richard
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In <333f78f1...@nntp.ix.netcom.com>,
Ed Jay <Xe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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*My Gosh!!! What happened? When I went to Berkeley, all we did was talk
*dirty.
that so? when i was there (late 80s) experimentation was so much a way of
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hil...@hillary.net (hillary gorman) wrote:
>In <333f78f1...@nntp.ix.netcom.com>,
>Ed Jay <Xe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>*>
>*My Gosh!!! What happened? When I went to Berkeley, all we did was talk
>*dirty.
>
>that so? when i was there (late 80s) experimentation was so much a way of
>life that reality ceased to exist.
>
Ah, yes, reality. What a concept!
I went to Cal in the early 60's, circa "Free Speech Movement."