Culture: Dance: Notation
Dance Move Subtitles   (+2, -4)  [vote for, against]

Graphical displays or text describing how to pull off complicated dance moves out of movies or music clips, such as in Michael Jackson's "Thriller", on DVD.
-- mrkillboy, Dec 12 2001

Dance Dance Revolution http://www.salon.co...ure/2001/01/23/ddr/
Tangentially related. [PotatoStew, Dec 12 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]

An LCD display dance floor, perhaps? Diagrams showing where your feet should be for the next two or three moves?
-- phoenix, Dec 12 2001


Top British pop band Steps has been known to include instructions in their videos, and to supply diagrams with their CDs.
-- pottedstu, Dec 12 2001


I got roped into playing on one of those games (see [PotatoStew's] link) the other day, whilst in a semi-drunken stupour. My female opponent was a little miffed when I put her to shame on it.
-- -alx, Dec 12 2001


Yeah, I wish normal CDs would be released with Dance Dance Revolution steps as some sort of plug-in. I love the game, but the shallow teenybopper music drives me up the wall. (The arcade version is a little better.)
-- jutta, Dec 13 2001


Concurring with Jutta, the music is weak but the physical exhilaration is addictive.
-- bristolz, Dec 13 2001


I think Dance Dance Revolution is a weird weird thing. Instead of just dancing you follow a grid with lights and a screen and I know there is other things going on but that game just upsets me... a Dance Dance Revolution party where every body has there own game and we all dance/play togther.
-- Protector of Mankind, Mar 16 2002


Dance Revolution is the only game worth going to an arcade for these days, IMHO. There ought to be a home version that lets you compose or download steps for your mp3s.
-- Jeremi, Mar 17 2002


whatever happened to good old-fashioned twister?

complicated moves, graphical & textual display describing such moves, tons of fun!
-- pauluskc, May 11 2004


Wasn't this baked for Time Warp in The Rocky Horror Picture Show?

It's just a jump to the left. And then a step to the ri-yiy-yight.
Put your hands on your hips; and bring your knees in ti-yight.
And then a pelvic thru-ust that really drives you insa-yay-yay-yane.
-- GenYus, Jun 28 2004


Also, when a dancer does a really cool move, I think points should spin off their head, like in mortal combat.
-- lawpoop, Jun 28 2004



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