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Grab a partner because it's time to hit the dance floor as bloggers everywhere get ready to dazzle you with their style, grace, and amazing feats of blogging about dance movies. Whether dance is used as a pure study in form, an element that is integral to the plot, or pure wow-’em entertainment, participants of Invitation to the Dance Movie Blogathon will give you unique ways to understand and enjoy these wonderful moments in film. http tunnel v4 key patch

And here we go!http tunnel v4 key patch

Sunday, May 4http tunnel v4 key patch

Jonathan Lapper at Cinema Styles goes Beyond Routine: Choreography and Dance and ponders the greatest dance number on film (or do you disagree?). Check out his great moving banner.http tunnel v4 key patch

Joe Valdez at This Distracted Globe discusses a great teen dance film Save the Last Dance.

Marilyn Ferdinand at Ferdy on Films, etc. talks about Dancing in Tight Spaces using Royal Wedding, Tap, and Dance With Me as examples.http tunnel v4 key patch

Glenn Kenny from Premiere.com offers some great screen caps from four films by Jean-Luc Godard.http tunnel v4 key patch

Rick Olson at Coosa Creek Mambo contemplates in an older post the dance of the solar system in Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies.http tunnel v4 key patch

J.D. does a kick-ass job on Rock n' Roll High School over at Radiator Heaven.http tunnel v4 key patch

Bob Turnbull gives us so many transcendent dance moments over at Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind, all I can say is "Go! See!"http tunnel v4 key patch

Bob Westal at Forward to Yesterday offers a whole slew of posts he did for his own Fossethon late in 2007. I'm linking to Part I of a three-part post. I suggest you start here and then wend your way through the entire collection.

Danielle Gordon grapples with the definition of a dance movie at Lady Wakasa's Journal and promises a week of posts that try to answer that question in the broadest way possible. Must reading, if you ask me!http tunnel v4 key patch

Monday, May 5http tunnel v4 key patch

Peter Nellhaus from Coffee Coffee and More Coffee offers some sexy screen caps and commentary on the Coyote Ugly of Mexico, Mesa que Mas Aplauda.http tunnel v4 key patch

Pat at Doodad Kind of Town offers a thoughtful review of Robert Altman's The Company.http tunnel v4 key patch

Mark Osborn at Tractor Facts gives us rundown of David Bowie's dance with the Muppets (!) in Labyrinth.http tunnel v4 key patch

Arbogast at Arbogast on Film tells a chilling tale of a dance on command in Curse of the Werewolf. Yikes!http tunnel v4 key patch

Installment 2 from Danielle Gordon at Lady Wakasa's Journal is a tour de force on dance in silent movies. Thanks for mentioning our mutual love of silents, Lady!http tunnel v4 key patch

Pat Piper has discovered a new film genre: The Angry Young Dancer. He's got the lowdown on the archetypal film of this genre, Footloose, over at Lazy Eye Theater.http tunnel v4 key patch

Jim over at The Moviezzz Blog takes the hazardous step of choosing the best dance scenes of all time. Wanna argue about it? Visit his site.http tunnel v4 key patch

Tuesday, May 6http tunnel v4 key patch

SciFi Drive has chosen some of the best dance routines in scifi movies. Time Warp, anyone?http tunnel v4 key patch

David Cairns at Shadowplay took the weirdest Busby Berkeley film I've ever seen (and that's saying a lot!), The Gang's All Here (review on this blog somewhere), and gave a brilliant exposition on the disembodied heads in polka dots that end the film. You haven't lived until you've seen this "dancing heads" number.http tunnel v4 key patch

Ah, Astaire! Adele, that is. Jonathan Lapper at Cinema Styles produces a photo of the more famous Astaire and his earliest dance partner--his sister--and tells us a little about where she got off to while Fred was becoming a star.http tunnel v4 key patch

Richard Harland Smith over at TCM's MovieMorlocks.com has contributed one of the best ballroom scenes in filmdom from my favorite vampire movie of all time The Fearless Vampire Killers (or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck). Thank you, thank you, Richard! We're not worthy.http tunnel v4 key patch

Wednesday, May 7http tunnel v4 key patch

Wayne Howard at Reel Whore shows us more Angry Young Dancer and a whole lot of amazing moves in what he declares a masterpiece of impromptu dance as a source of comedy, Hot Rod. I'm not about to argue.http tunnel v4 key patch

Peter Nellhaus of Coffee Coffee and More Coffee gives us a second post in his area of great interest--Asian films. The Japanese film Carmen comes Home explores cultural shifts in part by asking whether stripping is an art form. Great reading!http tunnel v4 key patch

Rick Olson at Coosa Creek Mambo is back with a new post on the wonderfully archetypal dances in the films of Fellini. Sometimes you do have to be Fellini to figure it out!http tunnel v4 key patch

Henrik Eriksson of Swing, Jazz, and Blues - Dance to the Music provides a treasure trove of films and performances that link music and dance. Have fun rifling through his wonderful closet of posts.http tunnel v4 key patch

Kirby Holt at Movie Dearest shows the history of men dancing with men in the movies is extremely long, varied, and well worth your attention.http tunnel v4 key patch

Anna Brady Nurse of Move the Frame, our first dance blogger(!), schools us on the Madison through the works of Jean-Luc Godard, Hal Hartley, and John Waters. This you gotta see!http tunnel v4 key patch

Bob Turnbull of Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind checks in again with an older post, Blood Wedding, by my favorite filmmaker currently working in dance films, Carlos Saura. Bravo!http tunnel v4 key patch

In case you had any doubt, Kimberly Lindbergs at Cinebeats reminds you that zombies don't like bad dancing in her post about Umberto Lenzi's Nightmare City.http tunnel v4 key patch

Back with Installments 3 and 4 of her series, Danielle Gordon of Lady Wakasa's Journal discusses independent film and her other passion after silent films--Asian films--with a few thoughts on dance in Hong Kong cinema.http tunnel v4 key patch

Editor A, Cahiers2Cinéma, "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, Ha ha ha ha ha." It's all here.http tunnel v4 key patch

Thursday, May 8http tunnel v4 key patch

This is a reminder that I am going to be spending most of the day on an airplane. I will check in as soon as I can in Honolulu and post all the new entries. Please be patient and please tell me about your new entries in the comments section of this post. Comcast is acting very weird lately.http tunnel v4 key patch

Roderick Heath from right here on Ferdy on Films, etc. gives us the dance that keeps on giving with his take on John Travolta's famous disco dance in Saturday Night Fever and its numerous offshoots.http tunnel v4 key patch

Haven't had your daily fix of psychokiller dancing. Hop over to Gee Bobg where Bob Glickstein has a bunch of "killer" video clips to share.http tunnel v4 key patch

Whitney Borup at Dear Jesus brings us the good news about Newsies.http tunnel v4 key patch

Friday, May 9http tunnel v4 key patch

Sorry to be gone so long, but the famous wifi hotel wasn't after all. I'm working from the business center right now and hope to find an internet cafe somewhere today. Waikiki is kind of shock right now--so built up and my favorite hotel to stay here demolished to make way for some kind of gated village for vacationers. Ah me, nothing stays the same... But back to the blogathon.http tunnel v4 key patch

Thought there was nothing to like about Heaven's Gate? Jason Bellamy of The Cooler begs to differ.http tunnel v4 key patch

After her great post on The Company Pat from Doodad Kind of Town returns with another on East Side Story. Yes, East Side.http tunnel v4 key patch

Installment 5 of Danielle Gordon's fascinating series on Lady Wakasa's Journal is Hurray for Bollywood! I know there are a lot of Bollywood fans out there, so go read what Danielle's got to say.http tunnel v4 key patch

Let's help bbrown launch his new site, Screenshottery by viewing his sexy series of screenshots from Mean Streets.http tunnel v4 key patch

I'm absolutely thrilled Peter Nellhaus of Coffee Coffee and More Coffee is back with his third and final entry into the blogathon--an appreciation of Nancy Kwan in Flower Drum Song. I may be in the minority in loving this film, but Peter tells you why it's worth your time.http tunnel v4 key patch

Does Your Heart Beat Faster? It will after your read Critic After Dark Noel Vera's excellent review of a "the subtlest, wittiest, and arguably most demented" film from his home country, The Philippines. Thanks, Noel!http tunnel v4 key patch