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Last updated on March 6th, 2018 at 12:31 am
Before the three major forms of modern dance—lap, table, and pole—came into being, Australia experimented with a multitude of wildly diverse dancing styles. Please enjoy this historical record of our grand dancing past.
- Where’s the frugging mashed potato?
Personally I’m rather taken with the stomp.
- What, no Bump?
I’ll have Windschuttle onto you, Blair
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 07 05 at 10:45 PM • permalink
- God, what a choice: hula dancing or dune buggies.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 05 at 11:02 PM • permalink
- Xanadu! Proof that cocaine wrecked Hollywood!Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 05 at 11:10 PM • permalink
- No, no, no. Its belly, lap and table. Let’s leave the Poles out of it. They are having enough problems as it is.Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 07 05 at 11:11 PM • permalink
- #6 Real Jeffs,
In some countries thet don’t have that choice, the commissar gives you the hula hoop and you better love it, comrade! ( you wouldn’t get the dune buggy, unless you were a senior member of the Party.)Posted by Daniel San on 2006 07 06 at 12:37 AM • permalink
- If you included horizontal folk dancing, you could use porn to boost the Bulletins circulation, just like Big Bogan– and you could defend it on cultural, aesthetic, and inclusion grounds.
On no account however mention even in passing clog,morris or especially any of that twiddly-dee Michael Flatley poncing about, unless you want circulation to freefall like Fairfax.
- re #13, yet another reason to cherish a democratic and free society, eh, Daniel? ;-PPosted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 06 at 01:02 AM • permalink
- Yes, where is bump and horzontal folk dancing – BigBogan – Habib, you are a hoot.
Apparently morris dancing was a happening thing at the pub at Wooloongabba in about 1988-ish – but I’m not sure if they still do it.
Found this on Morris Dancing… I am not sure of it’s veracity.
- #15 Jeffs,
“ You can have my dune buggy when you pry it from my cold, dead hands”. I’m pretty sure Thomas Jefferson said that.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 07 06 at 03:31 AM • permalink
- from Blackadder I:
Messenger: My Lord…
Edmund: Take that to Lord Chancellor, thank you. (Puts the order in the
messenger’s hand then slams the door) Oh God, this is desperate!
Desperate!Percy: We could have the Morris dancers, My Lord.
Edmund: Now look, we are not *that* desperate! Morris dancing is the
most fatuous entertainment ever devised by man—forty
effeminate blacksmiths waving bits of cloth they’ve just wiped their
noses on… How it’s still going on in this day and age, I’ll never
know.Percy: (confused) Sorry, so do you want them or not?
Posted by wronwright on 2006 07 06 at 05:33 AM • permalink
- reese — sorry, man, but Xanadu, like Streets of Fire, is what I call a ‘three-line’ movie. No there aren’t three memorable lines. Everybody involved DID three lines before they tried to make it. Michael Beck gives dialogue readings unknown outside of Godzilla voice-overs and not seen again until Lucas decided to voice-coach the actors personally in the latter SW flicks.Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 06 at 09:39 AM • permalink
- Picture 5 instantly transports me back to last Sunday, when the 4-year-old went to her first ballet exam. It was 8.00 AM, in a southern-hemisphere winter. Curiously virtually all the parents were dads.Posted by David Morgan on 2006 07 06 at 09:22 PM • permalink
- Jeez, http://www.abc.net.au/resilb/200507/r51812_138736.jpg[/img] ] Seb Coe still can’t dance.Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 07 07 at 02:17 AM • permalink
- Never mind, can’t get link to work properly.Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 07 07 at 02:19 AM • permalink
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, ahhhh, the three major dance styles.