io9: dancing

Vampires Versus Werewolves: The Dance Off

Meredith Woerner — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:12:10 PST

The eternal struggle between vampire and werewolf is sparked again in theaters today with New Moon. Which causes us to wonder who's really better: werewolves or vampires? We settle this issue once and for all, with a dance-off.

Side A, Vampires:

Blade, Blood Club

Once Bitten, "Hands Off"

Fright Night, "Good Man In A Bad Time"

Love At First Bite, With The Original Track "I Love The Night Life"

Twilight Prom Dance Clip

The Hunger

Side B, Werewolves:

Werewolf Steppers: He Jumps over A Bear Trap!

Werewolves Dance - For more funny videos, click here

Werewolf Bar Mitzvah

Teen Wolf Dance

Teen Wolf Too "Shut Up And Dance"

Eco Nightclub Powered by Boogie Energy

Annalee Newitz — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:04:36 PDT

A nightclub opening early next month in England is going to save the future — but only if you boogie as hard as you can on their energy-absorbing dance floor. The floor is made from a flexible material that bends as people pound it with their dancing feet. As you can see in this image, the dancing squashes special blocks under the floor that convert motion into into energy that powers the club's lighting and sound system. So maybe Emma Goldman was right about how revolutions should always include dancing?

You can get in for free if you can prove you walked or bicycled to the club. Otherwise it's 10 pounds. According to Environmental Graffiti:

Based at Bar Surya in Pentonville Road, the club is owned by property millionaire and head of new climate change organization Club4Climate, Andrew Charalambous. The Greek-Cypriot businessman is trying to reach out to young people in an effort to save the world . . . Apparently everyone [who goes to the club] needs to sign a pledge promising to work towards curbing climate change. Is it just me or does that sound annoying?

It does sound annoying, especially if they want your e-mail or address so they can spam you. Hopefully the weird pledge thing won't get off the ground, but these dance floors will become more popular. I want one for my flat right now.

Eco-Nightclub [via Environmental Graffiti]

Moby And His Mutant Breakdancing Octopus

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:33:00 PDT

The music video for Moby's "I Love to Move In Here," from Mute Records features the usual New York city night life. There's a club, lights, infamous drag queen Lady Bunny and a mutated sea creature disguised as a tiny, glowing man. It's from Moby's new album Last Night.

Buck Rogers In The Disco Century

Kevin Kelly — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:00:07 PST

Buck certainly knows how to strut his stuff and get down with it. We've already seen the phenomenon that is the disco-dancing Buckettes on skates, but what about Buck himself showing folks the intergalactic funky chicken? It's great how the DJ just sort of gets the gist of what Buck is explaining to him through hand signals and finger snaps. Plus that Princess Ardala might be a vampy bitch, but she dives right into the dancing fray, bikini top and crazy headdress in tow.

We're not sure why Wilma wouldn't give things a spin, maybe with Tiger Man who is watching impassively in the background. Guess he wasn't a slave to the rhythm. Twiki isn't above getting out there and trying something new, so why does she have to be such a stick in the mud? This would be her chance to show Ardala up in an cosmic battle of boogie.

Dancing in Zero Gravity to New Age Music Will Help Us Evolve

Kevin Kelly — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:00:14 PST

Today a 727 "Vomit Comet" lifted off from Las Vegas in order to film a scene of a woman dancing in zero gravity for an upcoming science fiction film called Stardance. Filmmaker Jeanne Robinson (choreographer and wife of scifi writer Spider Robinson) won the trip after showing this astonishingly bad preview video at the Heinlein Centennial earlier this year in Kansas City. It's a little bit John Tesh, and a little bit yoga. Here's the whoa: it's funded, and set to screen at an IMAX theater near you.

The movie would be based on Robinson's 1976 novella "Stardance," and the goal of the film is "to bring for the first time real null-gravity dance to film."

Plus, they're shooting it on large-format film stock, and they hope to screen it on IMAX screens across the glove. The storyline involves human being evolving into higher beings called homo caelestis, and part of that evolution involves dancing in zero gravity. According to the Stardance Project website:

The story follows astronaut Treya Anderson, a full time maintenance worker on a space station orbiting earth in the not too distant future. Both a dancer and an engineer, she chose science and space over a career in dance, but now, circumstances and opportunity will combine to allow her to merge her two passions into transcendent art with cosmic consequences.

Um. Maintenance workers in space who dance the human race into evolution? How on earth did this project get greenlit based on a trailer with new age music and cheesy Photoshop stills? The world may never know. But soon you'll get to see it — in glorious IMAX. We are strangely excited.

A Joyous Stardance for the New Year! [Biology In Science Fiction]