This is the third version of Footloose I’ve seen. Of course I saw the original film back in 1984 (when I was 15 and a high school sophomore). I saw the 1998 Broadway musical version as well. This Footloose remake does its source material proud and made me ridiculously happy. There’s a healthy mix of [...]
16Oct11
Footloose (2011)
7Jul10
The LXD Premieres
I’ve eagerly awaited the debut of The LXD since they appeared on a December 2009 episode of So You Think You Can Dance. The wait ended this morning as the first two episodes of The LXD (or Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) debuted on Hulu. The first batch of 10 episodes, which will premiere weekly, looks [...]
17Jul09
Getting Ready to Burn the Floor
We are excited. We bought tickets to see Burn the Floor next weekend. It’s doing a limited run at the Longacre Theatre. We did tickets for early in the run because Karina and Maksim from Dancing with the Stars are in the show through August 16. This looks like a ballroom extravaganza. Check out a [...]
27Jun09
Groovin’ With the Bears
Last night we broke the mold on our usual Friday night, which consists of Will cooking dinner and then we curl up on the couch to watch stuff on the DVR. We still had dinner, but then we went out to the LGBT Community Center for the Summer Fur Dance. The last time we went [...]
This headline greeted me on Playbill.com this afternoon: “Rollerball Meets Footloose in Dance Dance Revolution” What’s not to love about that! Here’s a couple quotes from the arrticle: “Inspired by the popular video game of the same name, Dance Dance Revolution, according to production notes, ‘is like Footloose set in the future — but much [...]
This week’s So You Think You Can Dance was incredible. I could easily post the entire show because the dancing was that good. But, since six clips would take up a lot of space, I want to spotlight great dances by the two people who were eliminated this week. First up, twitch and Chelsie (she [...]
I’ve never been much of a fan of the straight forward hip hop routines on So You Think You Can Dance, but this week’s performance from Mark and Comfort was incredible. I was thrilled to see Mark not end up in the bottom two, but was stunned to find Twitch there. Even more, I was [...]
