Dancer's name is Marquese Scott. Google him. Fantastic stuff.

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Dave Grohl covers Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" has been added as a related post - related requested by CrushBug on that post.

Almost Famous - Tiny Dancer has been added as a related post - related requested by CrushBug.

dupe http://videosift.com/video/Street-Musician-inspires-Dancer-encouraged-by-Arab-father

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Mom must be one of the dancers.

He certainly knows the steps!

I assume that that they put motion capture equipment on real dancers? I would love to see the footage side by side!

Really fun!

I love that all of the background dancers are (objectively) hotter than the "finest girl [he] ever met"...

Pretty damned effective advertising, though the trailer had already pretty well sold me on it.

Some references:

Drums: https://youtu.be/k59E7T0H-Us?t=9

Topless drummers: https://youtu.be/4tgtyl_5x5Y?t=59

Grandmother plays the drums: https://youtu.be/RWQCgSB_lpE?t=150

Violin: https://youtu.be/M3RpKTehDi0?t=43

Old women baking: https://youtu.be/BgUstrmJzyc?t=13

Man in a hamster wheel: https://youtu.be/slHboKF9PIQ?t=123

Pretending to be in love: https://youtu.be/iq2yLykdjvA?t=134

Burning Piano: https://youtu.be/-f993p0CAV8?t=105

Russian man on skates: https://youtu.be/bawnwSYOCFU?t=119

Creaming butter: https://youtu.be/VJ920cN2HmA?t=138

Lordi: https://youtu.be/gAh9NRGNhUU?

Loreen: https://youtu.be/Pfo-8z86x80?t=53

+ dancers, strange costumes, wind, light, love songs, etc.

I feel ya on the 'wanted to love this' [I think the Stay Humans muddied it up ... just can't warm up to them] but I decided to post it anyway because of Bernie Worrell and, of course, the lily white audience dancers [teehee]. Thanks for the quality push my friend!

I feel sorry for the "pro". First up, the audience is going to be on the kids side, but also, he's really in a lose-lose situation.

Best case scenario for him is that he beats a kid and everyone calls him mean. Worse case: he loses to a kid and everyone laughs.

Both are quite *skillful dancers, though.

Actually it is called Animation, and Cyrus is a master of it. Although it is probably a mixture -- nobody is a purist anymore.


From Wiki:
Animation
A style and a technique where you imitate film characters being animated by stop motion. The technique of moving rigidly and jerky by tensing muscles and using techniques similar to strobing and the robot makes it appear as if the dancer has been animated frame by frame. This style was heavily inspired by the dynamation films created by Ray Harryhausen, such as The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958).

And if you look at the list of male contestants, you'll see Cyrus having given himself the label of "animation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_You_Think_You_Can_Dance_%28U.S._season_9%29#Top_20_Finalists

Well you gotta think... psy is just there to check out his dancers... THEY are the ones who are showing psy that he is getting his moneys worth.

And yea, if you search youtube youll see a number of dance studios who did a number to this song, none of them come even close. Shows you the difference between a schooling and a professional level of dancing.

It never ceases to amaze me how good a professional is. You could see Psy flagging partway through, but the pro dancers were snappy right to the last beat.