Phillip Chbeeb & Renee Kester
If you were going to do this dance on a New York City subway platform, you’d have to do it wearing hazmat suits.
Nonetheless, it is really beautiful. I’m fascinated by the choreography – especially the lifts. They’re not just unusual, they’re also timed unexpectedly, and keep coming one after another, which makes them all the more astonishing. In particular, the lift at 0:35 really blew me away. Who thinks like that?
If I had the time, I’d get myself a super-sized bottle of hand sanitizer and watch it all day!
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June 19, 2015 at 2:43 pm
To ever have been that limber…..Absolutely amazingly wonderful.
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June 19, 2015 at 3:54 pm
I know. I was once nearly that limber, but I don’t think I ever moved that beautifully.
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June 19, 2015 at 3:01 pm
Methinks that might be the “clean” and “sanitary” species of subway – in Europe!
That was beautiful. 🙂
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June 19, 2015 at 3:55 pm
Europe or no, you don’t want to roll on a public floor. Nonetheless, I realize New York sets the gold standard for dirt.
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June 19, 2015 at 3:56 pm
Yeah, I think they did a black-light thing down there (like they do in hotels) and I swear I blocked the memory of what they found out of my mind for the sheer level of disgust. I remember the NYC subways (not-so) fondly…
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June 19, 2015 at 4:11 pm
I try not to think about it. And I buy sanitizer at Costco.
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June 19, 2015 at 3:42 pm
I am not remotely knowledgeable about dance but I do believe that choreography was awesome. I like the fact that it was rhythmic but off-beat and the way the dancers interacted with each other was really different to anything I have seen before (though, as I stated, I am not that dance savvy). The thought of making that degree of contact with a subway platform skeeves me out though. Yuck. I was once on the London Underground extremely late at night and the place was swarming with rats and mice. Boke. Those dancers were clearly very dedicated to their performance to not be fretting about gross germs.
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June 19, 2015 at 3:56 pm
Or they’re just young enough not to think about such things. I can remember a time when I wasn’t conscious of how gross everything is. I think it had to do with the fact that I believed myself to be immortal. What a dope.
Anyway, very glad you liked it!
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June 19, 2015 at 4:07 pm
Perhaps it is because I grew up with a neat freak mother in a very scummy area but I have always been aware of the hygiene of my surroundings. You could be right though. Oh to be so young, carefree, foolhardy and bendy!
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June 19, 2015 at 4:12 pm
. . . and bendy. Indeed.
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June 19, 2015 at 5:09 pm
It’s mesmerizing.
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June 19, 2015 at 8:56 pm
Isn’t it? I’ve watched it enough that if it were a person, there’d already be an order of protection against me.
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June 19, 2015 at 9:21 pm
🙂
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June 19, 2015 at 6:05 pm
Well…. I can do a downward facing dog (modified) AND see ‘stars’..yes I can!! ✨ I bet those two young people aren’t seeing stars! They have NO idea what they’re missing..😉
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June 19, 2015 at 8:58 pm
Indeed. So are you heading to the Mermaid Parade tomorrow?
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June 20, 2015 at 5:58 am
I wish I was going to the parade! Loved the photos of mermaid paraphernalia esp. the shell pasties! My years of rocking clams like that may be over, but I am approaching that phase in life where everything (steering wheels, spare rolls of TP, kleenex boxes etc) gets covered in fabric..so I’ll have to keep a look-out for bolts of under-the-sea prints. 🐠
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June 21, 2015 at 2:35 am
I wish you had gone to the parade, too! We had fun, in spite of the fact that you weren’t there. But next year . . .
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June 19, 2015 at 8:29 pm
Such creativity! I wonder if they did their own choreography and if not who is to be congratulated. BTW, I was never that limber.
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June 19, 2015 at 8:59 pm
It looks like they did do the choreography themselves. Pretty incredible, isn’t it?
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June 19, 2015 at 11:45 pm
That was really beautiful…they have magnificent control of their bodies, that makes it a pleasure to watch over and over.
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June 20, 2015 at 11:15 pm
Don’t they? I was blown away.
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June 20, 2015 at 1:00 am
Beautiful, thanks for sharing. Made me stop and breathe deep for a while, which is always a good thing…
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June 20, 2015 at 11:16 pm
That’s a great reaction!
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June 20, 2015 at 3:04 am
Those kids have great moves and make it look so easy, I used to be limber, but dances have changed since I was their age.
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June 20, 2015 at 11:16 pm
They are pretty amazing. I’m glad you enjoyed them!
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June 20, 2015 at 2:22 pm
That was so beautiful. It looked so seamless.
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June 21, 2015 at 11:50 am
That’s a great word for it.
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June 21, 2015 at 5:24 am
This is spectacular on so many levels. On the incredulity front: not only is the subway floor impeccable looking in relative terms but the place is completely deserted. I can’t imagine performing this at 4:30 am after scrubbing the floors. Talk about dedication. 😉
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June 21, 2015 at 11:53 am
That’s true! I hadn’t thought of it that way!
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June 22, 2015 at 10:31 am
Beautiful choreography. Breathtaking.
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June 22, 2015 at 10:51 am
So glad you liked it. Thanks for stopping by!
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