Dance Scenes Mash-up to “Uptown Funk”

Posted on November 18, 2015 by sheila

This is brilliantly edited. So much fun!

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19 Responses to Dance Scenes Mash-up to “Uptown Funk”

  1. Sylvia says:
    November 18, 2015 at 9:34 am

    Fantastic! Thank you for starting my day with a big smile!

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  2. k.c. Russell says:
    November 18, 2015 at 10:20 am

    Wow. I’m speechless.
    (Almost.)
    Thanks, I really needed that this morning.

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  3. HelenaG says:
    November 18, 2015 at 10:08 pm

    This is so impressive! Whoever made this sure knows their films. I can’t even imagine how long it would take to put this together.

    Just wonderful.

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    • HelenaG says:
      November 18, 2015 at 10:23 pm

      OK, so I had to look up the original video. Three weeks of work! It definitely shows.

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      • sheila says:
        November 19, 2015 at 4:33 am

        Also – how the dancers’ movements – claps and steps – even exclamations – are timed perfectly to beats in Uptown Funk! It’s not just a bunch of clips thrown together – it’s been choreographed.

        So impressive!!

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  4. HelenaG says:
    November 19, 2015 at 11:19 am

    Yes, indeed, that is what is so remarkable about this video. It certainly would not have the same effect with the sound turned off!

    I showed it to my husband last night, and he was impressed as well, but commented that the timing of the films had likely been adjusted to match the beats of the song. When I looked up the original video on YouTube, I was happy to report that Nerd Fest UK (who put this together) mentioned that “none of these clips [were] sped up or slowed down”. So, I was just imagining how this person(s) would have to have an encyclopedic knowledge of Golden Age musicals in order to figure out which films would perfectly match every single beat of Uptown Funk.

    They’re all so good, but my favourite is the “Good Morning” sequence from “Singin’ In the Rain”. Just perfect.

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    • sheila says:
      November 19, 2015 at 11:52 am

      HelenaG – thank you for your due diliegence in re: the speed of clips!! I just watched Top Hat a couple days ago – and that scene in the pagoda with the rain coming down – Ginger Rogers in jodhpurs was fresh in my mind and it seemed like just the right speed.

      Definitely encyclopedic knowledge of musicals – “Oooh, that gesture will go here – and that one will fit here” …

      I love the “Stop” – with all those guys in tuxedos stopping – not sure what that’s from.

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    • Jessie says:
      November 19, 2015 at 5:57 pm

      whenever Gene Kelly smiles I just want to die with happiness.

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  5. Lisa in Fort Worth says:
    November 19, 2015 at 3:37 pm

    Delightful!!

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  6. JessicaR says:
    November 20, 2015 at 3:29 am

    A well edited one of these can make my entire week. I love this too because it’s another example of how pop culture, all culture is in constant conversation with itself. The past, present, and future are really one moment and this video is a delightful way of illustrating that. You’ve seen the Rita Hayworth one right?

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    • sheila says:
      November 20, 2015 at 5:52 am

      I love the Hayworth one! She was so phenomenal. I wrote a piece about that supercut – as an excuse to talk about her as a dancer – when I was deep in Hayworth Study for my upcoming essay on “Gilda” for Criterion.

      http://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=108229

      I love your thoughts on past/present/future! I so agree!

      The last review I was assigned at The Dissolve (it was due on the day it closed its doors – still sad about it for all involved – including myself) – was “Tap World” – a documentary about the history of tap dancing – told through current-day tap dancers.

      I so recommend it!! Here’s my review –

      http://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=104929

      And one of the things that was so great about that doc was how these dancers – many of them street kids, growing up rough, tap dancing on a board on the sidewalk – knew EVERYTHING about the great tap dancers of yore. Fred Astaire still inspiring young dancers to push harder, be better.

      I’ve often said that even an illiterate ballerina who couldn’t tell you jack-squat about the War of 1812 can tell you about the history of her own profession. (Many actors cannot do this. They have talent, but they have no idea about what was done in the profession before they were born. I went to grad school with some of those bozos.) But ballerinas can tell you everything about Pavlova and why she was so great – even though they never saw her perform. And I love that continuity of history – the understanding that you are part of something big, a movement, a craft, that far pre-dates you. Also, and this is my conservative Edmund-Burkean streak: we have so much to learn from the past! There is so much there to inspire!

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  7. Melanie says:
    November 20, 2015 at 10:38 am

    Amazing. It feels as if this IS the music they are dancing to. And, yes, it brings these great dancers from the past right into our present.

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  8. Cla says:
    November 23, 2015 at 8:32 am

    Awsome! Funk music is great as it is, but with this dancing it has a special meaning. What fun!
    (Nothing to do with the dancing post, but I have to make a big cake for an actor next weekend and I’m thinking about many concepts you have given here about acting and trying to translate them into the cake.)

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  9. Heather says:
    November 25, 2015 at 11:16 am

    Thank you Sheila! This is just what my day needed.

    Cheers

    Reply

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