[Found here, here, here and here. Top one is a burlesque “robot” from the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Bottom two is are clips from the 1965 Bollywood movie Gumnaam.]
Tag: dance
The .Gif Friday Post No. 937 – C-Walk Fail, The Answer & Splashy Sloth
The .Gif Friday Post No. 931 – Do The Mr. Happy, Do The Locomotion & Do The Jerk Now
The .Gif Friday Post No. 921 – Artsy Coffee, Bubbling Pup & The Happy Boy Stomp
The .Gif Friday Post No. 902 – Prancyboys, Seal Lion Boops & The Bus of Judgement
The .Gif Friday Post No. 901 – K-Cup Glee, Slinkercise & A Happy Water Dance
The .Gif Friday Post No. 894 – Making Friends, The Bro Dance and Amazing Mustard
The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924)
Schulz and Holdt made these costumes for dancing; they performed under the name Die Maskentänzer (The Mask Dancers). The outfits are more sculpture than clothing, and they entirely swallow up the wearer. Some suggest a mongrel collision of characters — a buggy-eyed insect meets a jester meets a bearded tomato — and others allude to zippy motion, with eyeballs cartoonishly pulling off the face. Wires poke out and wooden blocks dangle, a bridge seesaws from shoulder to shoulder. Many of the geometric silhouettes defy anatomy; hands, feet, and heads are all boxed in, with no apparent exit.
The story doesn’t stop there. Schulz and Holdt were insane.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tanzmasken/
Bonus: Interactive 3D images of Maskentänzer
Toboggan Mann
Toboggan Frau
Tacky Raccoons 