The Geek in me loves dancing. I love it. If I weren’t a big-boned fatty dood I’d be dancing all the time. Back in the day, in my youth, I was king of the Michael Jackson urban dance. I would rock out on the street corners, catch the eyes of female passersby and make moves I would then give my friends permissions to use. Yeah, I was bad, baby. Bad.
In 2007 I watched an episode of “So You Think You Can Dance” that rocked my socks. Wade Robson, one of the choreographers of the show designed a routine for two contestants to the tune of Cabaret Hoover from the hit foreign animation film, Les Triplettes De Belleville. He smoked it and basically designed a clinic on how to choreograph an entertaining dance routine.
The concept was this: two vagabonds from around the early 1900’s awake at 3AM to perform a cabaret-ish dance routine for their imaginary fellow vagrants. Here it is two years later and the dance routine is still on my mind. In fact, because of said dance routine I purchased the DVD, Les Triplettes De Belleville. My children watch it once every few months.
Today I decided to find the video performance to refresh the memory in my head. I searched high and low for the video. YouTube was of no help because Fox’s copyright folks must’ve been on the prowl for illegal uploads of the video clip. Seems pretty stupid to remove the clip when tens of thousands of people loved that dance routine. It’s free publicity for the show, the two dancers, Sara and Jesus and the choreographer. It’s time to slap some sense into the old boys running the networks and the studios and get them to understand the big picture.
In the interim, here it is. Sara and Jesus, from So You Think You Can Dance, dancing to Cabaret Hoover, from Les Triplettes De Belleville
Download Quicktime File here: Cabaret Hoover
