Tag: animation

This Twurkey Is the Morsel of Holiday Cheer No One Asked For

I smell a viral video most fowl. It’s been a week since Thanksgiving, but if you’re still not over your turkey coma, this bizarro clip will certainly wake you up. Artist and animator Joel Erkkinen posted his creation a year ago, but it’s still racking up YouTube views today. And it’s not hard to see […]

This Animated Music Video Has Us "DaNcing in a RoOm"

Here at Dance Spirit, we have a proud and long-running tradition of highlighting super-dancey music videos. Today’s new entry in the canon is especially, um, special though: Not only does it feature five up-and-coming dancers/choreographers you should definitely know, but their sweet moves are ANIMATED—making the final product a stunning new way of looking at […]

A Very Animated Nutcracker, Starring Cyrus Spencer

You know, it’s funny: We’re so used to seeing the brilliant animation of the Dragon House Crew dancers and their ilk set to aggressive dubstep that “animation” and “dubstep” have come to seem like a milk-and-cookies pair. They’re just right together. But there’s so much subtlety and nuance in animation that it can actually benefit […]

Let Marquese "Nonstop" Scott Hypnotize You

Animator Marquese “Nonstop” Scott has come up with a brilliant formula for success. Step one: Find a striking and/or picturesque setting. Step two: Choose a dubstep or pop song that’s super earworm-y. Step three: Film himself performing an impossibly seamless display of superhuman control in that setting, to that song. Step four: Post the clip […]

Get Schooled By tWitch, Glitch, Comfort and SHEstreet

  On a scale of one to I-need-to-get-down-RIGHT-NOW, how much do you love trap music? Yep, me too. In case you fierce freestylers out there need some inspiration for the next time the beat drops, may I present tWitch, Glitch (aka Cyrus Spencer), Comfort Fedoke and SHEstreet dancing to “Soundclash” by Flosstradamus & TroyBoi? These […]

Vinh Nguyen's Hip-Hop Hallucination

Trippy… Last summer, we introduced you to hip-hop choreographer Vinh Nguyen, who blew us away with how he captured the paradoxically smooth, staccato quality of Lorde’s “Tennis Courts.” On Thursday, he demonstrated his artistry yet again, this time with a brilliantly thought-out concept video to French electronic band M83’s “Midnight City.” The video follows a […]

These Videos Help You Explain Dance to Your Nondance Friends

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a clueless (but well-meaning) friend ask you to explain contemporary dance. Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a friend avoid your performances because she was afraid she wouldn’t “get” it. Good, so…everyone? As you know, your DS editors are diehard dance nerds, and we never miss out […]

Galatea: The Paper Ballerina

In July, we told you about animator Glen Keane’s masterpiece, Duet, which brought 10,555 drawings of two dancers to life in a mesmerizing pas de deux. Needless to say, we’re still in a bit of a trance. #teamwork Today, we’d like to introduce you to the work of another dance animator in-the-making. Christina Yee’s Galatea […]