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July 24th, 1374 in Aix-La-Chapelle, Aachen, Germany. The plague is wreaking havoc and tearing up deep, puss filled wounds in a Europe where no one stands unaffected. Meanwhile, reports are pouring in on a new plague. A disease that would become known as St. John’s Dance. A defilement that is born in the filth in the homes of the poor. A defilement [...]

Hot chicks think they run the world. When those hot chicks are also Kanye West‘s dancers? Forget about it! Seriously though, here are Yeezy’s backup dancers delightfully flashmobbing a flight during their 2012 Australian Tour. Urban Improv annoys the hell outta me but I can get down with this. We’re suckers for beautiful women. Like, you didn’t know this. The video was [...]

Here’s director Jacob Sutton‘s short dance film of gravity-defying dancer Lil Buck dropping some insane longitudinal/lateral moves while confined to a minimalist wooden box. Sutton has been a frequent collaborator with Nowness; we previously featured the captivating and innovative viral hit LED shredder. You know Lil Buck from Spike Jonze‘s viral video with Yo-Yo Ma (below). Viral x 2! The track the video is set [...]

Mr Little Jeans (Monica Birkenes) previously blasted on the scene and dazzled us with her enchantingly moody cover of Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. We’ve played that cover a thousand times. She even made our Soundsystem 25: Best of 2011 (#14) because she’s a sensational and unique talent whose star is on the rise. Here is the music video for her song RUNAWAY which was directed [...]

Here is a seductive and monochromatic tango through the city with longtime OK Go collaborator Trish Sie and dancer Moti Buchboot for the new video Skyscrapers. Aside from starring in the video, Trish also directed. Good stuff. -@teemunny

Sadly, Don Cornelius, exemplar television show host, producer and creator of the nationally syndicated dance and music variety show, Soul Train, took his own life in the early hours of this morning. Cornelius had hosted the ’70s mainstay and famous show from 1971 to 1993, from the heart of the disco era and right into the postmodern early nineties. It was said that he [...]

Here is Marquese Scott, from the RemoteKontrol crew, once again

Yesterday, we featured the comical music video Yoga Girl. Keeping with a similar theme, here’s lithe and sinewy French dancer, Arthur Cadre, busting out some Yoga-esque b-boy moves to AWOLNATION‘s smash hit Sail. I used to be able to move like that (not really)… Check out AWOLNATION‘s original/official Sail music video below. -Teemunny

An interesting and captivating mix of interpretive dancing and motiongraphics. The DMC Initiative (DMCI) developed this piece as a response to the 2011 A/NZ PromaxBDA Conference title of Future Proof. Our approach was to focus not on futuristic notions but to consider that which is timeless. People, the expression of self and the interactions between each other are timeless qualities relevant to [...]

Check out Treasure Fingers latest release, Rooftop Revival, guaranteed to make you shake your rump dance your butt off. With the release of his new song and video, Treasure Fingers is kicking off his tour. See below for the dates. 11/17/11 / Baby! / Munich, (Germany) 11/19/11 / The Rocket / Milan, (Italy) 12/10/11 / Rio Room / Dallas, TX (United States) What [...]

DSL is back with their latest hit Supalove. It’s guaranteed to make you breakdance your sneakers off. Directed by : Mayson and Mayson and Thomas Tyman

We previously featured NONSTOP doing his illusory dancing. Here’s another member of that same mind-altering dance crew, RemoteKontrol. Just as memorable, this time it’s iGLIDE effortlessly contorting his body and gliding to a dubstep version of T.I.‘s Castle Walls featuring Christina Aguilera. These aren’t your mother and father’s poppers and lockers. After seeing these guys do their thing, we reserve the right to [...]

Divide By Zero is an interactive dance performance made in collaboration with with Nina Umniakov and Hellicar & Lewis, first performed at the Laban School by Catarina Carvalho. Hellicar & Lewis is the partnership between Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis, formed in 2008. We are interested in creating groundbreaking experiences that use art, technology and design to take people into the moment and impart lasting memories.

Here is dancer Marquese Scott aka NONSTOP, from Lawrenceville, Georgia, with some seriously awesome dance moves. NONSTOP is a member of the dance crew RemoteKontrol. This one will tickle your brain and you’ll question if it’s real or fake, he’s that good. It’s like the guy is made of rubber. NONSTOP does his thing to the Butch Clancy dubstep remix of the [...]

I have never watched America’s Got Talent, but this group of dancers is must see tv. They are known as Team iLuminate, a dance act that involves some impressive choreography and incorporates innovative wearable light technology controlled by programmable software. It’s Daft Punk meets Cirque du Soleil meets Wild Style meets a rave held on Cybertron. Introducing iLuminate™, the first patent-pending wearable, [...]

Here is yet another innovative and fun video from OK Go. This time, they combine forces with the contortionist dance troupe, Pilobolus, to engage in some mind-blowing fractals composed of the human form. This is all for their track,  All Is Not Lost. These guys continue to be so creative. They can only top their current music video oeuvre by having gremlins [...]

This French commercial  for the Samsung Galaxy SII phone features JayFunk, from Los Angeles, doing some slick finger Tutting to a techy beat. Good direction; there is some razor sharp motion tracking and sound sync’ing happening. Agency : Heaven Production : LABANDEORIGINALE Art Direction: LABANDEORIGINALE & MOTIONFANCLUB Director: Vincent Kherroubi Post-Production : MOTIONFANCLUB Music : Siegfried de Turckheim & Vincent Drux

A thoroughly fun and entertaining video directed by the elusive So Me, art director of Ed Banger Records. So Me is racking up quite the resume, helming vids for Kanye, Kid Cudi, Justice and MGMT. The track is Embody by Sebastian, also from Ed Banger.