SYTYCD, Joan Crawford?
I posted one of the videos below last night because I invited my tap class over for a little party (noisy foods and bubbly beverages, naturally) and we swapped favorite movie clips.
Joan Crawford Goes Gaga For Dance cracks me up because it it absolutely NOT what I would think of as "Joan Crawford." Another example of how the image we create, or let others create for us, is just a slice. My tap friends had never been to my house and I remember before they arrived thinking "what on earth will they make of my house, my pictures, my inability to gather three identical glasses..." Well, whatever they had gathered of "me" after years of Friday nights together at the studio I can't have come off any more goofy and variable than Joan Crawford in that mashup!
Other highlights of the evening:
Joan Crawford Goes Gaga For Dance cracks me up because it it absolutely NOT what I would think of as "Joan Crawford." Another example of how the image we create, or let others create for us, is just a slice. My tap friends had never been to my house and I remember before they arrived thinking "what on earth will they make of my house, my pictures, my inability to gather three identical glasses..." Well, whatever they had gathered of "me" after years of Friday nights together at the studio I can't have come off any more goofy and variable than Joan Crawford in that mashup!
Other highlights of the evening:
- Hysterical tango "duet"
- Trocadero - a new find for me
- Staggering, unbelievable, will have to watch this several more times before I believe it Swan Lake (start in the middle if you're not that into ballet)
- Vera Allen making us all want to either dance all day or hang up the shoes
- Who is a better tap dancer on skates: Astaire/Rogers or Kelly?
- Kelly and O'Connor sit down on the job
- Eleanor Powell doing what she does, with appearance from Red Skelton looking dapper and the frightened Lion from Oz being quite forward
- And a who's who of So You Think You Can Dance!
Great fun Laura. Have always been more of a Bette Davies fan but see that I have may have underestimated the scope of Miss Crawford's career!
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What a great post - such a great reminder of the big fun world out there, outside the walls of ED. Friends. Dancing. Laughter.
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