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In The Key Of Dance

2008-09-21 14:00:00 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog

There's something very satisfying for those of us with a taste for dance (including what some would see as the lowbrow end of the artform) to see a kind of dance fever sweeping North America. Much of it is courtesy of So You Think You Can Dance, now with its Canadian edition. Until recently trying to get non-dance people to watch has been kind of like telling an unrequited love that you know he/she would love you if he/she just tried harder.

But now people who formerly sneered at dance (not to mention anything with the words "reality" and TV") are flocking. And this means some amazing dance videos are surfacing -- if you like dance, you must click on that last link and watch them -- really interesting on a dance, musical, and sociological level.

And today Gregory Charles has the dance fever too, so on In The Key Of Charles (Sunday 10:00 a.m., 10:30 NT) he celebrates music connected to dance, with what he's calling "the most eccentric cotillion on radio." That means everything from samba to go-go dancing.

And that brings me to this important note for fans of the show who have been looking for more info on a weekly basis -- Gregory now has an In The Key Of Charles Blog. And over on that blog he's got one of the odder dance videos I've ever seen, at a post called We Can Dance If We Want To.

I couldn't possibly top that video, but here's another kind of oddness connected to dance. In this case no felines though, just angst ridden, hormone driven youths -- the famous dance scene from Jean Luc Goddard's 1964 movie, Bande A Part.