Verbal Snippets & Snapshots

Do you remember my blog entry in which I mentioned how I only knew how to upload photos of the videos on my digital camera? Well, I’ve finally figured out to upload the videos themselves! Whee. The following are video clips from FSA and OLÉ dance practices for Culture Show, which will be tonight at Shriver Hall.

The first video clip is from an FSA dance practice, in which people are dancing tinikling. Tinikling is a traditional Filipino dance in which people hop between two bamboo poles, and according to Filipino tradition, their movements imitate that of the tikling bird:

The following is a video clip taken from the same FSA dance practice, in which people are dancing modernized tinikling while hopping between masking tape that marks where bamboo poles are supposed to be. The bamboo poles were being used by people dancing traditional tinikling, as seen in the previous video clip:

This video clip is of my friend Miriam and her boyfriend Vanti practicing some steps in a “shine” portion of OLÉ’s salsa routine for Culture Show:

Here are Craig (my salsa partner during performances) and Rachel (a senior in OLÉ Dance Group) practicing the same steps:

This is a video clip of yours truly practicing (and messing up) the same steps:

Last, but not least, here are Pablo (a sophomore in OLÉ Dance Group who helped choreograph this year’s Culture Show dance routine) and Gilberto (a senior and one of the two co-coordinators of OLÉ Dance Group) practicing the same steps: