A classic clip from 1981 shows a nimble man dancing upon a door that’s placed on the ground with four glasses filled with water on each corner of the door. The dancer tries not to spill any water from the glass as he performs a high stepping jig. This performance is known as the traditional art of Sean-nós or Irish Door Dancing, which has its roots in farming communities.
You see in the old houses they had only a mud floor in a lot of the old houses so when they’d be a gathering the people there to any kind of a function …the solo step dancer then would be asked to dance and the door would be taken down from him for him to dance on …and if there were two or three dancers that were very good and that they weren’t able to decide who was the best, they’d put them through the drill again and leaves four glasses around on each corner of the door and whoever was able to do is dance the best.
Irish dance duo, Suzanne Cleary and Peter Harding of Up & Over It, perform amazing irish dancing with their hands. The couple are professional Irish dancers having performed and toured with world-renowned troupe Riverdance. Their first film, We No Speak Americano, went viral in 2010. Their latest video, Hands, shows…
Stop-motion artist PES has created "Swan Song," a 40-second stop-motion ad for the new citizenM Hotel in New York City that comes equipped with a gruesome ending. The short commercial starts off with a "cliché" closeup of a hotel room door and then shows two towel swans gracefully dancing on…
Daniel Barassi of BRAT Productions brilliantly added "Hairdresser On Fire" by Morrissey to a clip from the 1937 film Way Out West to make it look like the comedy duo Laurel & Hardy are dancing to the song.
ThinkGeek is currently offering multicolored illuminated Dancing Water Speakers that are compatible with Bluetooth devices. Use Bluetooth® to pair your device with them and then start up your tunes: the water inside will dance to the beat and multi-colored LEDs will light up (and there's also an Aux input jack…
Lori Dorn
Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.
