Lying in the Leaves

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I was in Montrose Park and I saw a guy with a boomerang. He was kicking the leaves and walking with his girl and I thought: I should lie down in the leaves and knock them around a bit. David Morneau made some music to accompany me. We will be doing our 25th collaboration in two weeks. Any suggestions on what we should do? http://60x365.com http://danceaday.com

Swings

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When I was a kid we had a swing set in the back yard and around 14 I would do all kinds of tricks on the set. My favorite was to hand upside down by my toes off the cross bar and drop to a handstand. I also loved swinging upside down by my toes. In this video I swing the old fashoned way.

Bench and Tree

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After a long day hiking in the woods I just needed to sit down and relax. I was beside myself. I was walking in Dumbarton Park in Georgetown.

Blowing Wind

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I was walking along the trail by the Potomac River and the wind started blowing the leaves around so I stopped to dance.

Raining Leaves

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I took a drive down the George Washington Parkway and stopped at the first scenic overlook. The leaves were falling.

Two Benches

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I love the fall leaves. When I saw these benches I thought it was a good place to sit and watch the leaves so I sat there twice while I did a dance for you.

Sun Dial

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There is a big sun dial by the Washington Harbour so I decided to do a dance there, at night. hmmmmm.

Black Friday

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David Morneau sent me some music in honor of black friday. I really wanted to tape some stuff in a mall but really, you can't do that. So I found some stores and snuck my camera in. I got what I could without getting the attention of security. Happy Black Friday. I hope you got some good deals.

Happy Thanksgiving

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I did not actually make a Thanksgiving Day specific dance but I want to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving day.

Boris 

House of Sweden

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There are some big chairs by the House of Sweden. I believe this is also the Swedish Embassy. I found a musical piece that I created in my music technology class to accompany my leg swings.

Senate Garage Fountain

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So this is the 200th day of continuous videos on Dance-A-Day. I set out to gather 200 people for this dance. There were notices on blogs, dance metro dc, myspace, facebook and I talked to many many people. Some were on their way, others could not find it and some had performances and other things going on thank you for thinking of us. Daniel, Adelais, Rob, Delante and I danced on camera, Todd was behind the camera and Fani was there for support. According to Daniel the rest of yall went to the bathroom all at once so I know there was a long line. I had to leave after about 15 mins so I missed you but here it is the 200th Dance.

Tidal Basin

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I am finally getting to dance with some fall leaves. They are just starting to blow away in the wind and luckily I had a day off so I could dance in the daytime. I went out by the tidal basin because the Cherry Blossoms are quite lovely in the Fall with their red, yellow and orange leaves.

Fog

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It was a foggy day and I so wanted to dance by the fall leaves in the fog during the day but I was working. So I went to Georgetown and danced in the night fog instead.

In the Street

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I decided to dance in the street. There was a demolition happening on K St so I figured it would be safe there. Since it was a night there was no wrecking ball over my head.

Einstein

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I went to the Einstein Monument for today's dance cuz I'm smart. David Morneau says

"Einstein likes Bach. I like Bach. Today's music is created from samples of Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's Two-Part Invention no.2 in c minor"

 

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IMF 1

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This is for Dan. I saw the fountain in front of the IMF and I thought was a cool fountain. I should dance there, so I did.

My Car

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Oh Joy. Quicktime is back, yeah! I have been using Premiere Pro CS3 for the past week because 2 is broken, hopefully it will self correct. I also used h.264 for the first time to compress the video and it does not look like total crap which is also very nice. This dance includes my car which I think is the coolest car in the world. I so wanted this kind of car when I was a kid and was very dissapointed when they made it curvy instead of boxy in 1991. This is a dance for my boxy car.

Hands Back

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After performing this weekend I have the energy and the desire to keep dancing. I was delighted when I actually left the house after a day at work to go and tape some dances. iTunes and Quicktime are still not working grrrrrrr.

Sevens

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This is a small section of a dance by David Dorfman that Sharon Mansur and I commissioned called Depth of Perception. I used motion capture to animate the model and added a wooden background. I was using Alias Motion Builder software to create the visuals. Before you say anything about the model, it was the only one available for free.

Blue Poles

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Karen and I performed last night then had a great time hanging out with Allison and Bobby at Bus Boys and Poets. We have another performance today at 3. We taped this dance as we left the restaurant. It was cold but not as cold as it will be someday before it is all over.

Performance Today at Gunston One

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Today I am performing with Karen Reedy in Jane Franklin's Dance Sampler. Come and check it out.

Don't miss Karen Reedy and Boris Willis perform "Path of Attraction" at Dance Sampler this November!
Gunston Theater One
$20.00

November 10, 2007
8:00 pm

November 11, 2007
3:00 pm

Directions

Class
as part of Dance Sampler
November 10, 07
12:30-1:30
taught by Karen Reedy
for more information visit Jane Franklin's website at janefranklin.com

Directions

Song of Darkness

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Ok iTunes and quicktime are still not working and neither is Premiere Pro. I downloaded a trial version of Premiere Pro CS3 which expires in a month. I am using windows media to compress the files before the get converted into flash which means they don't work in iTunes.

Karen taped me doing one of my singing dances. 

Soft Shoe

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OMG it has been a terrible technology day. iTunes failed to update properly and quicktime has been unavailable as a result. I attempted to uninstall it but it still has not worked. David Morneau sent me some good shoe sounds at the suggestion of Lillian and I had Delante and Todd do a little dance.

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Reeeeedy

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I am performing with Karen this weekend and after a long rehearsal I got her to (finally) do a danceaday. She is quite lovely don't you think.

Sail Away

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I made this for a video art class. It is getting cold and I have been thinking about doing a dance in the snow here in DC well here is some Ohio snow for you.

Cloudy Day

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I was feeling anxious all night because I did not have a dance for today. Well acutally I have hundreds but I wanted a new one for today. In a way I would like to get back to making and recording a new dance daily but don't count on it, recording is not always an easy task. Any way I woke up this morning, went outside and recorded this dance, enjoy.

OSU Shirt

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It was a Saturday and I was at work but I had a few hours to kill so I went for a walk. I came up on a group of women practicing football plays and I thought "Its Saturday and OSU is playing football, I have an OSU Dance t-shirt on and these women are playing football so I should do a dance." So I did. They are on the right side of the screen, way back.

Goldsworthy

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I decided to get all Andy Goldsworthy on ya. You can see a real Goldsworthy in the National Gallery East Wing. Gotta love blue screen, well actually it was a pretty blue sky but it works the same.

Brushes

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Jump around, oh yea, that's me, I jump around. Turkey Run is where I am.

Shadowrocks

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Its Friday so that means David Morneau and I combine our talents into a single event and here it is. I was having a moment walking along the path at Turkey Run because the pace of my life changed, my breathing slowed and i relaxed. I saw a great big metal thing in the water and I went to investigate. While I was there I turned on the camera and did some shadow dancing. Morneau hints at how sweet Caroline is.

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Turn Turn Turn

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I decided to go for a spin at Turkey Run.