What a goldmine for dance lovers! Flavorwire has posted the videos of 35 favorite dance sequences from the movies. They got such a great response in the comments that they posted 25 more dance sequences in film. Yummy!
Mexican movies in the fifties had some amazing musica and dance numbers. The mambo craze was big, with Pérez Prado's band (and Beny Moré the singer), so films with mambo dance routines were popular. Here's a number called "El ruletero". Sorry about the sound, but it's a classic. The film is "La reina del mambo" (The Mambo Queen) with María Antonieta Pons dancing, one of the many Cubans who came to Mexico to work in the music business, and who became a huge star.
Here's the great Beny Moré singing while the dancer Tongolele combines classical dance moves with AfroCuban rhythms in the film El Rey del Barrio (1949). The music is pure AfroCuban country rumba; Beny invokes the orisha Changó in the first part of the song.
Here's another Cuban band La Sonora Matancera with the Colombian singer Nelson Pinedo.
The Havana sequence in Guys and Dolls with Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons shows a U.S. stereotype of the mambo.
Do you have a favorite dance movie? or a favorite scene of dancing in a movie?
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Ooo, so many good ones.
Maybe the scene in "Strictly Ballroom" when the father and his fat old mother show the young hotshot how to dance the Paso Doble the RIGHT way.
Very satisfying display of about what dance is all about.
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