Life Has Its Funny Little Ups And Downs – Donald O’Connor
Noreen Corcoran sings “Life Has Its Funny Little Ups And Downs” to Donald O’Connor from the 1953 movie, I Love Melvin. Not only does it feature this catchy little song, but it includes Donald tap...
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The roller skating scene from Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times
In the classic 1936 film Modern Times, silent film star Charlie Chaplin plays a poor American worker during the industrialization of the Machine Age. A bit into the film, he acquires a job as a night...
View ArticleMoko Jumbie On 9-Foot Stilts & J.B.-style Skating – Dance in the Real World
Stilt-walking high above the street in Trinidad, Jonadiah Gonzales makes moko jumbie moves look easy. The feats come from practice. He and fellow dancers Adrian Young and Stephanie Kanhai teach and...
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Cycle-Skating, the new sport of 1923
Cycle-Skating – The New Sport of 1923! In this British Pathé video gentlemen is Paris try out cycle-skating, a brand new sport that strapped a specially-made wheel platform brace contraption onto the...
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Les Klaxons (The Horns) by Michel Lauzière in a musical jumpsuit
Canadian comedian Michel Lauzière has spent years creating unusual comedy performances, often including music. In this clip from the French television show Le plus grand cabaret du monde, Lauzière...
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Roller dancing with friends at Tempelhofer Feld
While locals have known of its wide open biking and skating surface for years, Berlin‘s Tempelhofer Feld is now world-famous for its roller dancing scene. A former World War II-era airport transformed...
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How to Jam Skate in Venice Beach: Learn 4 roller skating dance moves
Mixing hip hop, break dancing, acrobatics, and ice skating moves into roller skating, jam skating has been a part of Los Angeles, California since the 1980s. In this episode of KQED Arts‘ If Cities...
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