Uprock you don't stop

Like the tango (more), Uprock is a dance style born of the streets and rife with violence. But where Tango has emphasized the sexuality (long mythologized as brothel music) and transformed into a ballroom style with romantic passion bowdlerizing the overt sexuality, uprocking has been shunted off as the less popular battle dance cousin of b-boying.



Uprock is mostly upright (toprock), with feigned punches, kicks, gunfire and arrow shots, with the basic repertoire drawn primarily from locking.



While most of KMEL's competition is floorwork b-boy stuff, in the clip above he gets into the grittiest uprock video I've found on youtube, a flurry of punches, kicks, burns and jerks.





And, of course, the Rock Steady Crew with their "hit" Uprock:



You can compare Uprock most directly to Krump and Hyphie, with the wild and aggressive arm sweeps:



E-40's "Tell me When to Go" (embedding disabled).

Which, in turn, came out of clowning and turfing, but that's another goddamned post.

Anybody got some great regional dance styles they've been sitting on?

Strip club of the future

YayTM is a modified ATM that calls over passersby, plays them a song, and rewards their dancing with money. Then it uploads the video (sadly lacking sound) to the internet.

Obviously, it holds incredible possibilities for the tele-freaky.

Hannah Savannah fo fanna

A sapphic Oz schoolgirl named Hannah
Took to prom a dear friend, one Savannah.
They were barred by the haters
So they said: "see you laterz!
It's not just to behave in that mannah."

The Quidnunc Kid limmerizes this story about two girls who can't go to a formal dance together in Australia. (Which a former student says has always been homophobic.)