“You and Your Friends”, Blake (B.K.) Inc.
Pick Up The Pieces
Tag: dancing
Morning Announcements
cf. Screen Magazine (2003)
BENEDICK:
Come, come, we are friends. Let’s have a
dance ere we are married, that we may lighten our
own hearts and our wives’ heels.LEONATO:
We’ll have dancing afterward.BENEDICK:
First, of my word! Therefore play, music.—
Prince, thou art sad. Get thee a wife, get thee a wife…
— Much Ado About Nothing
I decided quickly (yes, I did) to disco down and check out the show
cf. Handy (Jam) Organization, “Consuming Women (Women as Consumers)” (ca. 1967)
Play That Funky Music (Jul Nako remix)
a fever, longing still
Hot Rod Girl (1956)
In these deep solitudes and awful cells,
Where heav’nly-pensive contemplation dwells,
And ever-musing melancholy reigns;
What means this tumult…?
Why rove my thoughts beyond this last retreat?
Why feels my heart its long-forgotten heat?
— Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard
keepsake
LIFE Magazine, 1966
There’s a letter
in my room
I keep reading
over again…
— J.S.
Get Down On It
We gotta get right back to where we started from
I Want You Back
You Got Me Workin’ Day And Night
Esther Bubley, “Jitterbugs…” (detail) (1943)
He’s A Mover
cf. American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., “Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a little hilarity” (1902)
“He’s A Mover” by Nikki & The Corvettes
Dream Sequence
U.S. National Archives, “St. Valentine’s Day Hop…” (detail) (1975)
“You’re wearing a new dress,” he said, as an excuse for gazing at her. And now he heard her answer.
“New? You are conversant with my wardrobe?”
“I am right, am I not?”
“Yes. I recently had it made here, by Lukaek, the tailor in the village. He does work for many of the ladies up here. Do you like it?”
“Very much,” he said, letting his gaze pass over her again before casting his eyes down. “Do you want to dance?” he added.
“Would you like to?” she asked, her brows raised in surprise, but still with a smile…
—Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
“Do You Want To Dance” by Bette Midler
“Design For Dreaming”
cf. MPO Productions, “Design for Dreaming” (1956) (Digital Edit)
Chapter 6
cf. photograph by Skye Studios via Unsplash
Daisy and Gatsby danced…
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Round and round you’re turning me
cf. State Archives of Florida, “Young people at a City Recreation Dept. dance…” (1962)
In The Mood
cf. Gjon Mili, “The Lindy Hop” (LIFE, 1943)
Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
The Groove Line
It’s Your Thing
cf. LIFE (1943)
I Just Want To Celebrate
Do you love me now that I can dance?
cf. Winslow Homer, “A Parisian Ball-Dancing At The Mabille, Paris”
Pick Up The Pieces
You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out, you put your right foot in and you shake it all about.
Nicolas Poussin, A Dance to the Music of Time (detail) (ca.1634-1636)
A Fifth Of Beethoven
cf. Victor Gabriel Gilbert, Scène de Bal and Joseph Karl Stieler, Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven (1820)
Fièvre du Samedi soir au Moulin de la Galette
cf. Auguste Renoir, Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876)
And that sweet city woman,
She moves through the light…
Madame Bovary
…yet all the time she was conscious of the scent of Rodolphe’s head by her side. This sweetness of sensation pierced through her old desires, and these, like grains of sand under a gust of wind, eddied to and fro in the subtle breath of the perfume which suffused her soul. She opened wide her nostrils several times to drink in the freshness of the ivy round the capitals. She took off her gloves, she wiped her hands, then fanned her face with her handkerchief, while athwart the throbbing of her temples she heard the murmur of the crowd and the voice of the councillor intoning his phrases. He said—“Continue, persevere; listen neither to the suggestions of routine, nor to the over-hasty councils of a rash empiricism…”
—Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Help me
I think I’m falling
In love again…
Charles Wilda, The Ball/Der Ball (1906)
In The Mood
Arthur S.Siegel, Jitterbug dancing… (detail) (1942)
Do The Hustle
Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Charity ball (1897)
Dancing In The Moonlight
cf. Henri-Julien-Félix Rousseau, Carnival Evening (1886)
Land Of 1000 Dances
cf. LIFE (1964)
The lady in red is dancing with me
Katja Hasselkus, Couple Dancing (2009)
Dance Little Sister
Tighten Up
Come on baby light my fire
cf. Tom Keogh, illustration for “Fall’s Multi-Message” (edited and animated) (New York Magazine, 1968)
Dance With Me
cf. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance at Bougival (edited detail) (1883)
Pick Up The Pieces
Turn The Beat Around
Eadweard Muybridge, The zoopraxiscope – a couple waltzing (ca. 1893)
The Good Foot
We danced until the night became a brand new day
John Sapiro 