Amazing dancing--eat your hearts out, everyone else

[Lydia Leftcoast]

This is from a rehearsal of the Georgian National Ballet.

At first I thought the camera was speeded up, but if you look at the people in the background, you will see that they are moving at normal speed.

http://www.wimp.com/nationalballet/

[Marrah_G]

1. okay that was really cool!

[Bryn]

2. Wow!!

It looks like River Dance mixed with ballet. Others...awesome!!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. That's pretty amazing.

Especially where they were scooting around in circles on their knees. How do they do that?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. Part of the answer: They start when they're kids:

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as in this clip:

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I can't find a clip that clearly shows the other amazing thing that Georgian dancers do, namely, dancing on their curled-under toes in unpadded, unsupported boots. I saw this at a performance of Soviet dance troupes in New York in the 1970s.

ON EDIT: If you look closely at the end of the little boys' dance, they're doing the curled-under toes routine.

[RebelOne]

5. That was great. Hope some of those dancers were wearing knee pads.

That hardwood floor could be pretty rough on the knees.

[OriginalGeek]

6. That was pretty badass

made more-so because I happened to be listening to this:

as the video started playing (album version without that long slow intro)

and was surprised how well it matched up with what i was watching....lol

[BrendaBrick]

7. Very cool!

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Those dancers are amazing! Thanks for posting this

Just for fun, I muted the music and paired it with this:

(On edit: For ultimate synchronization...DO click the AC/DC vid first - then the dancers vid...then, when the dancer vid ends and the song keeps going - hit replay on the dancers and it should provide an adequate syncopation...i.e. - the knees should always drop on the downbeat...)

[dana_b]

8. amazing!!

the things you can find on wimp.com too. Did you see this guy and his bike??

http://www.wimp.com/physicallypossible/

He and the ballet dancers seem to have an amazing amount of not just strength but coordination and control over their bodies.

Oh! And of course the dubstep master!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. He doesn't move so much as flow

[sarge43]

10. It's the trepak.

A dance originated by the Cossacks to show off a warrior's agility, strength and endurance

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. The Georgians take it to new levels, though, especially

with the part about dancing on curled-under toes. (Ouch)

[sarge43]

12. That shouldn't be humanly possible

[a kennedy]

13. Wow...

[TorchTheWitch]

14. Good grief that floor is a mess!

How aweful that they have to work on that dangerous piece of crap! Geez, nobody even uses wooden floors anymore and haven't since I was young!