Awesome Dance

Artist, acrobat, and dancer Yoann Bourgeois choreographed this incredible performance art piece at the Panthéon in Paris, France. In La Mécanique de L’Histoire dancers gracefully fall one by one onto a trampoline and then back onto a rotating staircase.

(PG-13: Language) “And all the hits are saying the same thing. There’s only tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, and life is finite. But sh*t, it feels like forever.” Funny, catchy, and tired of all of this. LCD Soundsystem picks up right where it left off.

When someone sends us a dance video, the moves are performed with legs and arms. Not so in this clip from StatusSilver, choreographed by XTRAP, which features a synchronized performance by three sets of hands. It’s like a Busby Berkeley musical, but for fingers.

(PG-13: Lyrics) Marquese Scott, BluPrint, iGlide, and AndreAndroiidRucker follow up their incredible dance video from 2012 with another sick set of robotic and slow-motion maneuvers. We want to see these guys in a dance-off with World Order.

The champions of good vibes, World Order are back with another song and video. But this time they’re joined by the ladies of the Japanese idol group SKE48, who show the guys that they can let loose and still do the robot.

It’s ironic that the performer in this video goes by the moniker “Bonetics,” given the fact that it appears he is completely boneless. Watch as he performs insane and seemingly impossible moves which combine breakdancing with contortion. (Thanks Dan!)

Performance artists U-Machine created this work in which a pole dancer interacts with the geometric images projected on the screen behind her. The result is a live performance that could pass as the opening credit sequence for the next James Bond movie (if it had guns.)

(PG-13) The video for Breakbot’s disco-infused track mixes ’70s sci-fi elements to create a world in which men are replaced with creepy robots who do the bidding of their female masters. It’s like Westworld meets Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex.

The always incredible Poppin John teamed up with dancer Solto to turn in this mindbending (and bodybending) street performance set to Revolvr & Genisis and Splitbreed’s track Unstoppable. The gimmick at the end is worth the price of admission.

A wonderfully shot short film by Brandon Bloch and Tim Sessler which uses the movements of a group of talented young dancers to reflect the gradual loss of New York City’s local culture and character as the city has gentrified. Read more on the Brooklyn Aerials blog.

Genki Sudo’s well-dressed bandmates visit Yokohama’s Chinatown to pretend they’re jiangshi, eat dumplings and noodles, have their fortunes told and do their robot dance in front of a pagoda.

Devin “Supertramp” Graham’s latest video focuses in on the amazing hoop work and artistry of N8TIVE HOOP, a Native American dance troupe, and simultaneously showcases some great camerawork. Go behind the scenes here.

Digital artists Maria Takeuchi, Frederico Phillips and performer Shiho Tanaka combines dance choreography and motion-capture technology in this hauntingly beautiful work that uses Xbox One Kinect data as its source. BTS gallery here.

Filmmaker Wilkie Branson created this beautiful and heartfelt animated short by hand-cutting more than 4,000 individual printouts of dance movements from his other film, then compositing them into larger than life backdrops.

Marquese “Nonstop” Scott yet again proves that he can dance like a boss, regardless of the musical genre. Here shows off his superhuman balance and body control to an ethereal afro-electro-slow-jam by Thriftworks.

Musicians will tell you that a 7/4 time signature is one of the trickiest rhythms to follow. In Stewart MacLennan’s short film, performers show off their ability to keep in sync with this unusual beat. Inspired by Dave Brubeck’s eponymous track.

Using nothing more than rappelling gear and their talents, dancers Amelia Rudolph and Roel Seeber pulled off this epic vertical dance on the side of Oakland’s City Hall for the Art + Soul Festival.

Genki Sudo and the rest of World Order’s kempt robots take us on a tour of Akibahara, a district in Tokyo known for its electronics and geeky establishments. Guest starring members of AKB48, who Wreck-it-Ralph fans might know.

Another beautifully-synchronized combination of dance and projected light by Japanese performance troupe Enra, directed by Nobuyuki Hanabusa, performed and choreographed by Saya Watatani and Maki Yokoyama.

In celebration of Tokyo’s selection for the 2020 Summer Olympics, World Order continues to work their slow-mo choreography, while giving us a brief tour of Japan’s biggest city in their trademark blue business suits.

Japanese mulitmedia dance and martial arts troupe Enra celebrates Tokyo’s selection as home to the 2020 Summer Olympics with a thrilling performance that culminates with Ninjas bringing the Olympic rings to Japan.

We dare you not to crack at least a little smile as Nathan Barnatt cranks out some more of his silly dance moves while dressed as everyone’s favorite pixelated plumber. Stick around long enough and he might even get his Princess.

A performance art piece done with a pair of ridiculously expensive programmable LED light sticks loaded with a variety of mesmerizing persistance of vision images. We love how he snuck Nyan cat in there. More here.