Ode to Joy

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The Jack Guideon Theater at the Joy of Motion Dance Center is a studio by day and a theater by night. In this video you can see it transform.

Mother Daughter Morneau

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This is the first collaboration between David Morneau ( http://5of4.com )and myself for Dance-A-Day. We are going to go back and forth with me giving him videos to compose to and him giving me music to create to. Kelly and Kailei were so wonderful to watch. Kailei choreographed a short dance, pretty awesome for a 5 year old.

Shocking

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I finish up my day at Old Town Trolley and I meet Kelly, Rob and Joseph at Tryst.

Joseph is the artistic director of Culture Shock DC He does a little dance for your viewing. 

 

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NC Governors School

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Governors School is a place where you make art outside of your comfort zone.  Sometimes you make art without even knowing it.

Jumbo Slice

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Kelly and I were hanging in Adams Morgan and I wanted to do a dance by the Jumbo Slice sign. We met Kymone and her friends who are also perfomers/producers and you will find info on their show at Busboys and Poets below.

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July 12 

8:00 - 10:00 PM (Langston Room)Visionist Studios presents NINEVEH: a conflict over water. The City of Nineveh is ruled ruthlessly by Nimrod who has succeeded to commodify every living resource as owner of the Global Water Corporation. The depletion of the world's oil supply forced the complete use of solar and wind energy, so the profiteers who shape history had to find new things to own and control. Unpolluted lakes, rivers and aquifers are heavily guarded leaving only rainwater to be illegally harvested by the few Resisters who dared to defy the system. Come witness the stage reading fundraiser of this independent film. Meet the writer, actors and director as they embark upon their journey as guerrilla filmmakers. Educate yourself to the impending water crisis that already claims 25,000 lives a day. FREE RSVP required mailto:kymone@prisonpoetry-theplay.com

Contradiction Dance Backstage

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When we hang out backstage, there is always time for more dancing.

The Washington Monument

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The Washington Monument is tall. In fact it is so tall that it can appear short. The worlds largest free standing masonry structure has walls 16 feet thick at its base and 8 inches thick at the top. It was designed by Robert Mills and it opened on my birthday in 1888 but 79 years before I was born.

Kelly

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All I know is we started dancing in the street. Tonight we perform. Contradiction Dance at the Jack Guidone Theater at Joy of Motion Dance Center. 8pm

See Contradiction Dance

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This weekend I am performing with Contradiction Dance at the Jack Guidone Theater at Joy of Motion. Here are some of the company members "swaddeling" or hanging out after long rehearsal is over.

Museums

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Today I went to the National Portrait Gallery and saw some works about dancers and decided to do some dancing of my own. There was a photo of Mikhail Baryshnikov and a painting of Martha Graham by Paul Meltsner and Merce Cunningham was in a video art piece by Nam June Paik. I love Paik's work so I danced with Megatron/Matrix 1995 at the National Museum of American Art.

Lifts

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He lifts and she lifts

Tryst

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Kelly and I were hanging out at Tryst when she dared me to get up and dance to "Oh Sherrie" which I did to great applause from the patrons. As the song ended she jumped into my arms and I swung her around and we sat down and laughed about our pre-futurist performance. Soon after this guy gets up and boogies down. Kelly says to me, "you have to get him on tape for danceaday, so I did.

Human Zoo

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Kelly says "Lets go to the zoo" so we head over to Rock Creek Park to check out the animals including the human animal.

Dupont Circle

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It was a beautiful day in Washington. I spent most of the day inside after a really fun night but I managed to get out into the sun for a bit. I decided to do today's dance in Dupont Circle a neighborhood with lots of  restaurants and coffee shops. The circle was named for Rear Admiral Samuel Du Pont of the Du Pont chemical family.

Why you do that to Mom?

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Boris and Kelly, who are performing together June 23 and 24, 2007 have a little dance.

Perspective/SHIFT

Contradiction Dance

Jack Guidone Theater at the Joy of Motion Dance Center

June 23, 8:00pm

June 24, 7:00pm

Back in DC

Boris Willis, MFA. Wooo Hoooo. I have graduated and I am back in DC at least for the summer. I am performing with Kelly Mayfield Contradiction Dance on June 23 and 24 at the Jack Guidone Theater. Hey, I don't waste time getting back to performing. Dance-A-Day is going well and I am looking forward to making my first DC danceaday today.

Kristina's Birthday with Fire

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After Eoin's performance the fire dancing began. Eoin, Phil, Jessica, Maggie and Jeff play with fire.

Last Daily Video Blog

It has been four weeks now since I started the BWM video blog and I am going to suspend the daily video blog posts on this site to concentrate on danceaday.com. From time to time I will post information here pertaining to Boris Willis Moves. Please continue to check out danceaday.com daily and come here every Friday for an update.

Graduation Ceremony Part 2

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Jaclyn and Boris get seated, watch former President Bill Clinton speak and instruct the OSU Dance undergrads to go crazy in the sea of black robes. Boris, who is quickly approaching 40, decided to do a dance of his football days in high school on the field.

Because

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Off to see the wizard again, this time I tell you why.

Marty

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Marty breaks into dance at Ladies 80's

Ding Dong

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I went off to see the wizard and this is my dance.

Visual Noise

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This is a dance that I worked on in Bebe Miller's creative process and choreography class. I was working with the idea of visual noise as in Perlin Noise, check it out on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlin_noise

Ducks

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I saw these ducks swimming on Ohio State's Mirror Lake and I thought "why can't a duck do a dance." Luckily I had my camera.

Unit 70

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A scary and gory dance in the Unit 70 Studios. This dance is not for everybody. Warning: not for kids.

Dancing on A Rainy Night

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I am dancing at the Gazebo in Goodale Park in Columbus, OH

Arms and Legs

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Karen, Noelle, Colleen, Nicole, Peter and Boris got two arms and two legs.

Boris' 7:00 Hip-Hop Class

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Boris' hip-hop class performs at the OSU Dance informance.

Boris' 8:45 Hip-Hop Class

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Boris' hip-hop class performs at the OSU Dance informance.