subway impromptu music / dance

Subject: subway impormptu music / dance
From: open mike
Date: 20 Oct 10 - 05:29 PM

Here is an interesting scene...some fiddle tunes being played in the subway and some dancers come along and act out movements with the music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KGLgDQAo5U
they call is a hoe down throw down...found it on facebook today.

Subject: RE: subway impormptu music / dance
From: Melissa
Date: 20 Oct 10 - 08:05 PM

Hoedown Throwdown

I like that!

Subject: RE: subway impormptu music / dance
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 20 Oct 10 - 10:06 PM

In Toronto!

Thanks for that!

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: subway impormptu music / dance
From: meself
Date: 21 Oct 10 - 10:48 AM

Funny, my brother just mentioned this video to me a couple of nights ago - now I've seen it.

When I play my fiddle in the "C-train" stations in Calgary, I often get little snippets of this sort of thing - some guy going by will slow down and do a little hip-hop step-dance - but I've never had an extended episode like the one on the clip. Although I once had a guy do a full-length rap to the tune 'Silver & Gold' ....

Re: the comments below the yt clip. It's nice to see how many people appreciate what's going on in the clip, some even recognizing the connection between this hip-hop (or whatever it's supposed be called) dance and older N. Am. folk dance. On the other hand, it's kind of sad how many posters assume that these guys are trying, unsuccessfully, to mimic something from some movie or music video that in actuality appeared sometime after this clip was recorded ....

Subject: RE: subway impormptu music / dance
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 21 Oct 10 - 01:23 PM

Thanks for posting, open mike.

Me, I see tai chi as the most important source of those moves. Except for the delightful sideways scoot of the third dancer, which made me chuckle.