Awesome Dancing

A man struggles with a strange ailment that makes him groove endlessly in director Finn Keenan’s darkly comic music video for MK’s smooth dance track. Directors Notes has a short piece on how they pulled off the trick shots by rotoscoping characters into position.

Dance crew XTRAP’s act includes a series of numbers that use led-adorned gloves to show off the performers’ smooth and precise finger tutting movements. Kuma Films captured a more intimate solo performance as well.

If you’ve ever been in one of those indoor skydiving facilities, you know it can be a pretty wild experience. Without fear of ever hitting the ground, they even use the chambers for dance competitions. Prepare to be amazed with this performance by freestyle dancer Kyra Poh.

Researchers at UC Berkeley developed an amazing piece of imaging software that can transfer the dance moves of a person in a video to another person in a second video. The result is not perfect, but it’s surprisingly smooth and even captures head movements.

The dance from the Rick and Morty episode Ricksy Business is entertaining all on its own. But it’s just that much better in the Japanese dubbed version shown here. Though “wubba-lubba-dub-dub” is the same in all languages.

Ryan Higa knows he can’t dance very well, but that doesn’t stop him from trying. In this clever and complex video, he contorted himself into positions for 4000 still images to produce the illusion of true dance talent via stop-motion. BTS video here.

Nexus Studios presents an amusing short promo film for its goofy iOS augmented reality app. The sole purpose of HotStepper is to superimpose a confident, pear-shaped dancing dude into real world surroundings, giving you a virtual companion wherever you may travel.

The vibrant and upbeat music video for the song Kimi no Mikata by J-Pop act Kyary Pamyu Pamyu was shot in a single continuous take, using a combination of precise choreography and carefully-timed video footage played on an array of tablet screens.

Dancer maddchadd transforms himself into a robot with a degree of precision rarely seen, introducing just the right amount of stutter and mechanical movement in not only his torso, arms, and hands, but every little facial expression. Do you even blink, bro?

There’s a ton of praise being heaped on actor Sam Rockwell for his complex character portrayal in Three Billboards. But back in 2002, he played The Gong Show host Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Here’s a bit of his amazing screen test.

Editor and cinephile Jacob T. Swinney is back with another great video, this time cataloging some of the great moments of the past year in which characters danced across the big screen. For some reason, we’re craving a shot of tequila now.

Berezka (“Birch” in English) is a Russian folk dance troupe who performs with an unusual style – its dancers move with such tiny and smoothly-executed footsteps that it appears they’re on wheels. Of course, their dresses are so long that they very well could be.

China’s WL Intelligent Technology gathered up 1,069 of its Dobi robots and arranged them into a massive grid, then programmed them to perform a synchronized routine, which landed them in the record books as the largest ever gathering of dancing robots.

You never know when the DJ will drop a party jam, and your friends will drag you onto the dance floor. ItsMRich and Adrian Van Oyen have you covered with 100 good, bad, and downright cringey moves you can have at the ready for any kind of tune.

It’s not the first time we’ve seen a dance crew in lighted costumes, but Light Balance have taken it to a whole new level, with intricate designs and perfect coordination between body and light. No wonder their America’s Got Talent number won them the coveted Golden Buzzer.

“A dancer writes a diary entry.” Actress Niamh Wilson dances in front of a glow-in-the-dark acrylic sheet, leaving her shadows behind with the help of a strobe light. This is Jonah Haber’s music video for Working For The Future In The Interlake by Yes We Mystic.

Director Kouhei Nakama created an awesome dance video without any actual dancers. Instead of humans, he played around with CGI animation to twist, turn, slice, dice, and contort choreography out of his virtual dance troupe. The track is Hella by Broke for Free.

Japanese breakdancer Ashitaka recently attempted to break two World Records in his chosen field – the most consecutive one-handed jumps, and the most elbow hops. Our palms and joints hurt just watching him do this. Watch now and see if he achieved his goals.

CLS Videos presents a lively montage of about 300 classic (and not-so-classic) movie scenes which featured characters getting their groove on. We knew we’d love it the second they started off with Les Grossman. Full list of movies here.

Viral challenges are too easy for popping phenom Marquese “Nonstop” Scott. So he took on one that lives up to the meaning of the word. Watch Nonstop and his friends Bam Morales and Julius “iGlide” Chisolm turn into an animatronic puppet band. Another one here.

To celebrate the completion of Star Wars: Rogue One, CG artist Nicolas King aka “NIXOLAS” put together this fun video, set on a beautiful tropical isle, overrun with imperial walkers and an army of dancing stormtroopers courtesy of Golaem digital extras software.

BRIC TV introduces us to Fred Nelson, an elderly man who found his true love late in life, bringing a much needed sliver of joy and happiness into the world using his feet, shoes, and an old piece of wood.

The Leftovers star Margaret Qualley wilds out in director Spike Jonze’s fun ad for KENZO’s first perfume. Qualley’s moves were choreographed by Ryan Heffington, who was also behind the music video for Sia’s Chandelier. The song is Mutant Brain by Ape Drums and Sam Spiegel.