Char Dance Thread

[De Wilde]

Yea, I believe it's a tribue to Josephine Baker as well, I went and made a Female Paragon just to check it out.

In the beginning it does look like a dance sequence from a Missy Elliot video, then again the worlds greatest compliment is impersonation (or something like that) I watched it for about 20 minutes to pick up the nuances and the like, and have decided it's much like the Josephine Baker dance.

-De Wilde

[arcanemacabre]

Anyone got a link to an actual video of Josephine Baker's dance? I can't remember exactly what it looked like, but if it's what I'm thinking, isn't it that dance that good ol' Bugs Bunny does with the fruit basket on hie head?


If so, I agree, it looks similar! I think we have a winner!

[Loralai]

Originally Posted by arcanemacabre

Anyone got a link to an actual video of Josephine Baker's dance? I can't remember exactly what it looked like, but if it's what I'm thinking, isn't it that dance that good ol' Bugs Bunny does with the fruit basket on hie head?

Hehe. Although the Danse Sauvage was performed in a Banana skirt, I think Bugs Bunny's impersonation was more a tribute to Carmen Miranda. HBO did a movie in the early 90's with Lynn Whitfield, which did a pretty good job of recreating most of her famous dance moves. ( I think I previously said it was Halle Berry..got that one confused with the Dorothy Dandridge movie..sorry).

Considering Baker's popularity peaked in years prior to the advent of high technology, true video is quite hard to come by, although it exists, it will rarely rear it's head on the net. I've looked alot, found one small clip or two that amount to nothing.

[De Wilde]

Did a li'l You Tube Research, closest clip I could find was 18 seconds long, however I did a little more digging around and found out that Beyonce's dance sequence in Deja Vu was inspired by Danse Sauvage so this could be where they chose to pick up her dance moves?

[Sir Skullcrasher]

I thought the female Paragon dance looked like something from a Hip-Hop music video!

[Big_Iron]

Originally Posted by Sir Skullcrasher

I thought the female Paragon dance looked like something from a Hip-Hop music video!

Me too. Whenever I saw one dancing, I started to sing, "I like big butts..."

[Matix411]

Originally Posted by KvanCetre

The female assassin does not skank

She begins skanking. The whole thing is not entirely her skanking, there are a few moves incorporated that can be seen in various types of "BBoy" dancing, ie. breakdancing.

And skanking isn't just typical modern "I skank to ska" dancing.
It started a long time before ska was ever introduced, and it has a crap load of different forms--not the same repetetive motion that all kids do when they skank these days.

[Sir Skullcrasher]

I still don't get what Male Paragon dance is suppose to be.

[Curse You]

Originally Posted by Sir Skullcrasher

I still don't get what Male Paragon dance is suppose to be.

It's Michael Jackson's dance from the final dance sequence of the Beat it video.

But really, don't any of you people use GuildWiki?

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Dance#Paragon

That article has anything this thread could ever need.

[Deinonychus]

the clips I have seen of "Skanking" seem similar but not quite on to me.

I have seen this kind of dancing in Europe and it seems like it could be part of it too. I usually hear it referred to as "Jumping".

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...ceid=zeitgeist

Again, it doesn't explain the backflip, but that might be flavor added to either of these repetitive steps.

[Perth68]

female dervish=whirling dervish
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FtV--BbJj...elated&search=

[Tetris L]

Originally Posted by some guy

Hope that helps a bit.

Did you actually read this thread before you posted?