2018-08-19 – Nikon D3300
crown of thorns, Ventiane, Laos
🎵 (youtube) Antonio Banderas & Los Lobos «Canción del Mariachi»
back at the beginning of the pandemic, a South China Morning Post video about a rural Chinese couple curing the husband’s depression with shuffle dancing went viral – and then a mess of older releated videos began to resurface – Chinese have long been stereotyped as loving their morning calisthenics (seniors doing their tai-chi) so it’s not any stretch to see shuffle dancing take off – what grabbed my attention though was not the shuffle dancing, but the music they danced to – it sounds a lot like shuffle remixes of folk songs, rural songs, and (what we would call) ｢adult contemporary｣ – but with China’s population hosting huge social media networks completely divorced from Western social media, trying to find out any more information that surfaces in the overlaps is difficult (ex. half the time, ｢shuffle dance｣ is referred to as ｢ghost-step dance｣) – for anyone interested, these are some of the related phrases I’ve pasted together that regularly surface videos – ｢chinese shuffle dance｣, ｢ghost step dance｣, ｢ghost dance｣, ｢guibu｣, ｢鬼舞｣, ｢鬼舞步｣, ｢dandan dance｣, ｢dandan shuffle｣, ｢changchun dance｣, ｢xiaoqing shuffle｣
🔗 (youtube) Chinese Village Couple’s ‘Rural-Style Shuffle Dance’ Goes Viral Online
🔗 (youtube) Chinese School Principal Teaches Students Shuffle Dance During Break
🔗 (youtube) 70 Years Old Grandpa’s Chinese Folk Shuffle Dance
🔗 (youtube) Chinese Group Shuffle Dance That Shook the World
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