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Pure joy.

Posted by JenniferP on August 18, 2012 in Uncategorized

This is delightful, is it not?

Via the Girl of 100 Lists herself, badass production designer.

Anyone else got music videos that are full of awesome dancing? I’m in the mood.

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62 comments on “Pure joy.”

  2. Dave Rudden (@dreadfulnotion) August 18, 2012 at 10:20 am

    As dated and dodgy as this video looks now, I loved it when it first came out. (partly for the jiving, partly because of a simultaneous teenage crush on both the hippie girl and the blonde guy in the black suit.)

  5. Nomie (@anachronistique) August 18, 2012 at 10:44 am

    A long-form Marina and the Diamonds mashup that has great dancing AND excellent reimaginings of fairytales!

  6. Nomie (@anachronistique) August 18, 2012 at 11:25 am

    Okay, just one more. Broadway might be cheating but this is great and Michael Jeter is an absolute delight.

  7. TheJackdaw August 18, 2012 at 11:28 am

    And this

  8. macavitykitsune August 18, 2012 at 11:32 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSSSTa-PIaU A bunch of anime cosplayers dance to Bad Apple! in Nagoya.

  9. sasha August 18, 2012 at 11:43 am

    Not technically a music video, but this flash mob marriage proposal is full of great (amateur) dancing, and makes me blub every time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzkEwPZWALA

  10. K. August 18, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    One of my favorite (anime) fanvids that always brings a smile to my face. :)

  11. monsterzero August 18, 2012 at 12:47 pm

    Adriano Celentano – PRISENCOLINENSINAINCIUSOL (1974)

    • BadSack August 19, 2012 at 12:23 am

      Everyone — watch this crazy video !!! Recorded in 1974 in FAKE English the dance # is spectacular, in a pre disco, Busby Berkely, lots of mirrors way…

      • monsterzero August 20, 2012 at 8:38 am

        I’m a native speaker of English and I always wondered what English sounds like to someone who isn’t. This might actually be it.

  12. Jane_Doh August 18, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    Impromptu dancing by old folks and kids. I can’t watch this without getting all misty.

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg&w=560&h=315%5D

  13. Key August 18, 2012 at 1:30 pm

    Yay!! I love dancing videos so much! Pure happiness!!
    I will go back and watch everyone else’s but here are the first two favorites I thought of:

    Steven Colbert dancing montage – I Don’t Feel Like Dancing
    I am compelled to jump up and dance around to this one – it’s happening again right now – ahhhh

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXCOW0VIjHw&w=420&h=315%5D

  14. Key August 18, 2012 at 1:32 pm

    Next, Dancing at the Movies – a collection some wonderful person made from 40 different movie dance scenes to Footloose. LOVE!!

  15. Key August 18, 2012 at 1:35 pm

    Ok, trying that embed/link again (and that should say, “set to the song Footloose”:

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHisd9P2M-Y&w=560&h=315%5D

  16. Kyn August 18, 2012 at 1:54 pm

    The “Where the Hell Is Matt” videos are kind of extraordinary.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwe-pA6TaZk

  17. Key August 18, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    This one is summer and sunshine – these guys made Party in the USA my favorite song for an entire year. I could not stop watching this video:

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ezfk7s1NyY&w=560&h=315%5D

  18. Kate August 18, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    This is one of my favorite happy making videos of all time. Its a fanvid for Narnia with the song Leaning on a Lamppost and its happy and Lucy and Tumnus.

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsquJ4NoPNc&w=420&h=315%5D

  19. movablebooklady August 18, 2012 at 3:47 pm

    Japanese tap dancers and rocking shamisen — what’s not to like?

  20. Britt August 18, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    I’m shocked no one has rec’d Gangnam Style, yet!

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0&w=560&h=315%5D

    I think my favorite part is the little kid with the killer hair at the beginning.

    • Katie August 21, 2012 at 12:33 am

      Hells yes! It is so silly and hip at the same time. Love it. The little kid is great, but I also love the woman in drag in the yellow suit,

  21. MHM August 18, 2012 at 5:15 pm

    Loved it! Just what I needed to see today.

  22. Tea & Strumpets August 18, 2012 at 5:17 pm

    Oh man, that’s fantastic!

  23. shadowspar August 18, 2012 at 9:05 pm

    Janelle Monae and her band show us a bit about stage presence. =)

  24. shadowspar August 18, 2012 at 9:10 pm

    I confess I like this one solely for the outfits. ^_^;

  25. shadowspar August 18, 2012 at 9:13 pm

    Eh, sorry, the embed code didn’t seem to come through on that last one. Vid’s here.

  26. mercutia August 18, 2012 at 10:25 pm

    This makes me laugh so hard I nearly pee my pants.

  28. charmaine August 18, 2012 at 11:22 pm

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj6kcpys_Tg&w=560&h=315%5D

    Boston Ballet dancers. Fabulous legs.

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJV2FiNIg6o&w=420&h=315%5D

    Committed fan girl with flash. Be afeared.
    C

  29. BadSack August 19, 2012 at 12:03 am

    I can’t get enough of the early 1970′s Soul Train line dances. So many great fashion moments, some super hot dancing, and such a spirit of joy and enthusiasm and fun:

    And I loved Fatboy Slim’s Praise You when it came out. I love bad dancing as much as I love good dancing:

  30. Chicken Lady August 19, 2012 at 3:04 am

    This is so awesomely bad, it’s fabulous. I love it.

  32. hebby August 19, 2012 at 4:12 am

    And this one from the Maccabees! Half kissing and half dancing! It’s on my “Is this not happiness?” video playlist on my iPod.

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJmWSWQgdM&w=560&h=315%5D

  33. California Girl August 19, 2012 at 8:30 am

    Something for the space explorer in us…
    Go Curiosity!

    “We’re NASA and We Know It (Mars Curiosity)”
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google&v=QFvNhsWMU0c

    Good luck with your film.

  36. KarenElhyam August 19, 2012 at 12:01 pm

    The dance only version of the Korean band Shinee’s Lucifer video. There’s a normal music video version that I couldn’t care less about, but the dance only rehearsal version is so great it breaks my heart. Their adorable work out clothes yet carefully styled hair! The hard to film stripes! The perfectly, eeriely great synchronization. All so cute.

  37. BadSack August 19, 2012 at 1:36 pm

    Sorry — I can’t shut up. Here is a great piece by young bad boy choreographer Michael Clark, from 1983, with costumes by Leigh Bowery, and a song by the Fall. Great dance surrealism and joy. And giant underpants. I think it may be from “All Hail the New Puritans”:

  41. EmJ August 20, 2012 at 8:06 pm

    Best flash mob ever (that I’ve seen as of yet):

  42. tinpantithesis August 20, 2012 at 10:50 pm

    The Nicholas brothers, doing what they do best. (Tap-dancing up a storm.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBb9hTyLjfM

  44. Katie August 21, 2012 at 12:59 am

    From the 1998 Hindi film Dil Se – the most amazing music video ever filmed on top of a freaking MOVING TRAIN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOYN9qNXmAw

  45. Muse142 August 21, 2012 at 7:59 pm

    Neil Patrick Harris and Hugh Jackman! Being awesome!
    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqJxyuTMMog&w=420&h=315%5D

  46. photosthatdance August 22, 2012 at 6:42 pm

    Reblogged this on PhotosThatDance and commented:
    Unity.

  47. Tim August 28, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    I’m gonna have to go with this wonderful band, they just released a new album too! The song is Anna Sun, by Walk the Moon:

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