{"id":435,"date":"2009-03-16T23:17:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T06:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2014-06-11T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T06:47:00","slug":"favorite-video-of-the-week-explorations-in-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Video of the Week: Explorations in Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My life is measured by dance parties, they are the occasions that define my time here on this planet. Such festivities sustain me through long work weeks and bureaucratic appointments. This weekend I played DJ for an impromptu gathering of people ready to bust some moves. We went from flamenco, to vallenato, to Bulgarian chalga and some banda and nortenos thrown in for good measure. The following videos are ones I&#8217;ll be watching to prepare myself for future dancing adventures.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GkQitafqk_I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nBulgarian gypsy &#8211; Sevgilim Apaz taifa &#8211; Mis Dibi<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, one of my good friends has spent time enough time in the Balkans to have learned a few of these moves and share them with us. The rhythm in Bulgarian music is notoriously difficult to follow, add the Romani touch and man, I&#8217;m gonna need a lot of practice!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EaEaaZfiXyU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EaEaaZfiXyU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong>Asi se baila en Sonora<\/strong> <em>Getting down in Sonora!<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nIs this a quebradita derived dance style? A little but not totally, right? In any case, I&#8217;d love to have his style. The girl, well I think she&#8217;s there to look pretty. The song is called &#8220;La Gorda Desgraciada&#8221; by Don Manuel Rodrigo &#8220;El Yaqui&#8221; and is a type of Huapango.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XKabSoa2VCk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XKabSoa2VCk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong>Danza La Puya Vallenata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While I prefer clips of regular folks dancing, this video of a choreographed vallenato music and dance performance is amazing. Quite a bit to take in here. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LlJTbGvDxjU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>La Noemi de las 3000 con la mari por Bulerias<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>La Noemi with the wonderful El Bobote playing palmas.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nThis clip proves you can never start learning too young especially with Flamenco!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My life is measured by dance parties, they are the occasions that define my time here on this planet. Such festivities sustain me through long work weeks and bureaucratic appointments. This weekend I played DJ for an impromptu gathering of people ready to bust some moves. We went from flamenco, to vallenato, to Bulgarian chalga &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite Video of the Week: Explorations in Dance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4593,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}