Dan Deacon, dancing like a dead bug
Dan Deacon knows how to get a dance party started – here’s a clip of him at Hopkins in 2008. I was there but had no idea what was going on.
Last night, we spotted Dan Deacon dancing at Metro Gallery with a wooly, pink sweater tied around him. That’s not why he caught our eye though; it’s because he was leading a group of ten people in a game of follow the dancing leader. It works like this: Everyone stands in a clump, facing one wall on a relatively roomy dance floor. The person toward the front of the group takes on the leadership position and makes up dance moves to the beat of the music. Everyone behind that person mimics his or her moves until that person passes his or her role off to someone to the left. The group turns to their left to face that wall and follows the person in front again. You continue round and round in circles.
We joined in because it looked like fun. The most ridiculous dancing always occurred when Dan Deacon was leading the group. I mean, at one point everyone on the dance floor was laying on their backs with their hands and feet up in the air like a dead bug.
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April 19th, 2010 at 1:26 PM
Aphera Music » Blog Archive » Tech Support: DJs giving you Planet Earth at its best says:[...] Tech Support played at the ODDSAC screening After-party held at the Senator Theater. They paired fresh beats with vintage eighties songs, they paired dance music with looped flutes and guitars, and they paired a helicopter baseball hat with Discovery Channel’s Planet Earth. That was probably my favorite part of their performance – as danced on stage, the giant screen behind them showed some of the best clips from Planet Earth. But the music was not right for the crowd before them. If you’ve ever seen hipsters dance you know what I mean – they need funky stuff to throw their bodies around to. If the music is too controlled they don’t know what to do with themselves. If you haven’t seen hipsters dance please see my post about Dan Deacon. [...]