Bar Juggling in the English Garden

Walking one warm summer day in the English Garden (a public park) in Geneva, I came across these three young men who were practicing their bar juggling on the lawn. After filming them, I asked them for their permission to upload the video onto the web. They acquiesced warmly! I found the perfect piece of music on the Current APM music library. There is one particularly magic moment when the young man with a red shirt's movements match the music absolutely perfectly - 1:20 to 1:50 or thereabouts! At one point, a rude old lady walked right in front of my camera in spite of my signs to her asking her to walk behind me. I slightly lost my cool at that point. Don't you hate it when people do that to you?

Anyway, the old lady notwithstanding, I am quite pleased with this little video.

For best results, click on HQ as soon as the video launches, and use headphones.

Enjoy!

Bellydance Superstars - Sonia Drum Solo

Requires DivX to be installed - you can get it free from here: http://tinyurl.com/2zuxrs

While you are playing the video, the rest of your monitor screen might go dark or even black. This is normal, it is a feature of Stage6 (the video hosting site) to make viewing of videos more pleasant without anything else on your monitor to distract the eye.

Tito and Tarantula - After Dark

Requires DivX to be installed - you can get it free from here: http://tinyurl.com/2zuxrs

While you are playing the video, the rest of your monitor screen might go dark or even black. This is normal, it is a feature of Stage6 (the video hosting site) to make viewing of videos more pleasant without anything else on your monitor to distract the eye.

Maurice Béjart, January 1, 1927 - November 22, 2007

Maurice Béjart était un grand ami de mon oncle et ma tante. Je l'ai rencontré chez mon oncle en 1974, à l'époque où il était fraichement converti au Soufisme. Je fus fortement impressionnée par sa personnalité, bien qu'elle irritait beaucoup ma tante.

Repose en paix, Maurice.



Maurice Béjart was a close friend of my uncle and aunt. I met him at my uncle's home in 1974, at the time he had newly converted to Sufism. His personality impressed me enormously, even though it annoyed my aunt to a great degree.

Rest in peace, Maurice.

Sunrise - Funky Town

The Sayari Circus from Udaipur - The Gipsy Palace part one

Nritya Sangam - Kathak and Bharatanatyam jugalbandi

Tango Animation - En Tus Brazos (In Your Arms)

"Enjoy the beautiful French animation movie "En Tus Brazos" about how nothing can stop a tango dancing couple ... not even fate. It abounds with creativity, sentiment and argentine tango.

"The greatest tango dancer of the 20's is stuck in a wheelchair after a tragic accident. Thanks to his wife, he recovers the use of his legs, the time of one imaginary dance, ending entreating passionately "Don't stop, hold me tight".

"Directed by François-Xavier Goby http://fxgoby.free.fr/home.html Edouard Jouret and Matthieu Landour. France 2005. Presented on festivals in Paris, Séoul and Bristol. Original version on http://www.entusbrazos.fr/

"Music (first part): "En Tus Brazos" by Alfredo de Angelis and Oscar Larroca (vocal). Composition by Carlos Zárate. Lyric by Elizardo Martínez Vilas.

"Music (final part): "El Huracán" by Edgardo Donato. Composition by Osvaldo Donato."

Dance of the Thousand Arms of Buddha (China)

This dance is performed by a troupe of 21 dancers, male and female, who are deaf. They get visual cues from the ladies dressed in white who are on both sides of the stage.

Gulabi Sapera et Titi Robin - Shadi Ke Badh

Gulabi Sapera & Titi Robin on MySpace

The Gurdjieff Movements presented by Jeanne de Salzmann

"The Gurdjieff Movements are here presented by Jeanne de Salzmann, his prime pupil. This is a rare bootleg of a film made by Jeanne de Salzmann in collaboration with members of the Gurdjieff Foundation in an effort to preserve a visual record of the sacred movements and dances taught by Gurdjieff ever since he appeared in the West in 1912. Best to watch in silence, alone, in a darkened room:)"

Corbin Bleu - Deal With It

Lionel Richie - Say You, Say Me

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in "Top Hat" - Cheek to Cheek

Man Mohna