there are no words

[alonewiththemoon]

Sometimes it's easy to kind of take Rachel Brice for granted and sometimes the overexposure (in which I do my part, with my fangirl shirt) seems the most prominent thing, but then I see a video clip like this one and my god, she brings me to tears.  So divinely beautiful...

(I believe that's Beirut that she's dancing to)

Comments

[phoenixdancer.livejournal.com]

She really is a goddess

[bintblue.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! She is so controlled and so smooth at the same time. Inspiring.

I hope floorwork becomes popular again. Used to be standard around these parts (for the sparkle/restaurant set), now I never see it.

[alonewiththemoon]

Floorwork is still a pretty regular sight around here, where the venue setup allows it, but then this is the land where American Cabaret never took off its hip belt ;-)

[damiel.livejournal.com]

That's Beirut, yes.

[alonewiththemoon]

I think I'm going to have to pick up that album too :)

[damiel.livejournal.com]

I think that (Gulag Orkestar) was one of the best albums of 2006, for what it's worth.

[ayun.livejournal.com]

I totally agree.

There's a download from the upcoming EP at Pitchfork...that I totally can't find right now and I need to leave for work! Damnit.

[rojagato.livejournal.com]

When I see a performance like this, I get this prickly, nape-of-neck hair-raising feeling because it looks as if the dancer is filling the negative space between opposing forces ... or, more wonderous, as if s/he is mediating that space.

It's something like the feeling I would get watching a gifted preacher.

[alonewiththemoon]

What she's doing here is 100 percent what our workshop last night was about--it is a matter of appearing to capture a balance between opposing forces in your own body, with gravity as the mediator. It's just breathtaking...

[fire-faery.livejournal.com]

She is a great dancer. Just looking at the video makes me want to do more yoga. She is keeping me motivated.