Doin’ the Fancy Dancy Dance

Dancin’ the dancy dance,
Wearin’ the pantsy pants,
Takin’ a chancey-chance.

Dancy Dance is a very amusing 20-second short claymation “sketch” created by Kirsten Lepore.  Lepore adds that she, “Made the funky ass beat too.  Dontcha’ wanna just dance to that?!?”  Actually, this short-short animation is a neat little mood-brightener, really fun to watch.  Makes me want to try making one of these things myself too.  I’ll have to go up in the attic and see if I can find some stuff to make it with, like maybe my old 1970’s Play-Doh Fuzzy Pumper Barber and Beauty Shop will work.  Well, one day.  Maybe.

Doin’ the Fancy Dancy Dance

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In the Blackout: A Little Night Dancing

In the Blackout is a thoroughly enchanting 3-min. animated short film directed by Ian Emma Bonhote and Fernando Del Reginato, with music composed by Adam Bushell and Nick Foster. It just goes to show that love is very complicated, and especially so when two inanimate objects, lost in a dark underground parking lot, find each other.  In the course of the quite unlikely love story between Ms. Victorian Dress and Mr. Mechanic Overall, the audience witnesses the exploration of the class divides through their first steps into a new romantic relationship.

In the Blackout: A Little Night Dancing

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Elimination Dance: A Grueling Competition of Humiliation

Elimination Dance (1998) is a rarely seen short film by the Canadian actor/writer/director Don McKellar. The award-winning short is a dreamy, absorbing confection of archival images, live-action drama, still photography, spoken word and narration. The film takes place in a netherworld where elimination dances have been made illegal, because the unhappy, humiliated losers band together and provoke uprisings among the people and governments just do not like that.

Elimination Dance is set in a crowded dance hall where the Iguana Cafe Orchestra swings and sways. The film revolves around a newly-met awkward couple trying to remain on the dance floor while a caller reads out stranger and stranger reasons (e.g., “anyone who has been penetrated by a Mountie”, “anyone who has testified as a character witness for a dog in a court of law”) why dancers are to be eliminated from further participation. Elimination Dance ends up providing a playfully penetrating (pun intended) view of the comic possibilities of social life.

Elimination Dance: A Grueling Competition of Humiliation

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Primping for the Make-Believe Fancy Dress Ball

Photography by: Andria Lo

Primp is a selection of images taken by photographer Andria Lo, which show young women dressing themselves up for the Comic Con International + Anime Overdose in California last year. Andria says of her project that costumes and costume-play are a major part of the world of comics conventions. They seem to distract from the introversion of the hobby. While attending one of these events, she was struck by the outrageous costumes and fascinated by how they could be completely re-contextualized in private settings. Strangely enough, with the exhibitionist element removed, the costumed are even more of a spectacle.

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