I want to google a video of this but searching 'canadian dance' is getting me nowhere.
― test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees (Abbott), Friday, 15 May 2009 23:06 (seventeen years ago)
I'm kind of disappointed no-one has answered this important query - c'mon Canada where's the pride?
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 16 May 2009 19:42 (seventeen years ago)
I have tried to search, but I gave up.
― StanM, Saturday, 16 May 2009 20:51 (seventeen years ago)
Fine Fine Music to thread.
― Noooo! Cats are not for eating!!! (ENBB), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:05 (seventeen years ago)
Lived in Canada for 5 years and honestly dude I have no idea what you're talking about. None of the Canadians currently in my house know either.
― franny glass, Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:20 (seventeen years ago)
I saw it in a video about Canada that we watched in 8th grade and it still blows my mind.
― test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees (Abbott), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:22 (seventeen years ago)
Log Driver's Waltz? (as performed by Rufus Wainwright's mom & aunt)
― If Snotboogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play? (Dr. Superman), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:23 (seventeen years ago)
Visiting Morris dancers from England?
― StanM, Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:24 (seventeen years ago)
Trouble with searching Canadians and Hats and Dances is this...
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:25 (seventeen years ago)
― If Snotboogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play? (Dr. Superman), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:25 (seventeen years ago)
Yes, when you say "Magritte" do you mean fellows in bowlers?xp
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:26 (seventeen years ago)
yes I do!
― test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees (Abbott), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:36 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.onf.ca/film/Cadet_Rousselle
― If Snotboogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play? (Dr. Superman), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:40 (seventeen years ago)
Abbott, are you sure this wasn't a dream?
― Beth Parker, Monday, 18 May 2009 15:39 (seventeen years ago)
There are a lot of Canadian country line dancers on YouTube, but they're all wearing cowboy hats.
― Beth Parker, Monday, 18 May 2009 15:40 (seventeen years ago)
Could be like the sardana but that is not canadian
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Monday, 18 May 2009 15:43 (seventeen years ago)
no idea what this is about
― s1ocki, Monday, 18 May 2009 15:43 (seventeen years ago)
When were you in 8th grade, and what is the context? Hard to help without as much info as you can share.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:03 (seventeen years ago)
Beth, that was an original hypothesis of mine that is gaining some strong support. I just feel like kind of an ass now as I've described this with a lot of epic superlatives and awed imitations to many, many people.
― cant go with u too many bees (Abbott), Monday, 18 May 2009 16:03 (seventeen years ago)
I was in eighth grade...in...1997 or 1996. It was a short video on modern Canada, its culture and geography, that we watched in a social studies class. Do any towns in Canada have entire cities underneath them that are kept warm all year long? That was in it to.
― cant go with u too many bees (Abbott), Monday, 18 May 2009 16:05 (seventeen years ago)
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 18 May 2009 16:06 (seventeen years ago)
Do any towns in Canada have entire cities underneath them that are kept warm all year long? That was in it to.
― cant go with u too many bees (Abbott), Monday, May 18, 2009 4:05 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
mtl basically has this
― s1ocki, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:10 (seventeen years ago)
okay whew well I am glad I did not make that up, thank you.
― cant go with u too many bees (Abbott), Monday, 18 May 2009 16:20 (seventeen years ago)
I drew a (very) quick sketch illustrating this thing:
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2083/ocanana.jpg
― cant go with u too many bees (Abbott), Monday, 18 May 2009 16:21 (seventeen years ago)
I think we should enact this leaning line dance with derby hats.
It might be from an old movie. The Fred Astaire canon. There's a long tradition of dancing in derby hats. With or without canes.
Or from one of the Riverdance things?
― Beth Parker, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:24 (seventeen years ago)
Explain, s1ocki?
(Favourite thread ever so far.)
― Sundar, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:24 (seventeen years ago)
Oh, whoops. Missed yr note. NOT Lord of the Dance. Older, then?
― Beth Parker, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:25 (seventeen years ago)
I've been in that massive subterranean mall in Montreal!
― Beth Parker, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:26 (seventeen years ago)
I'm at a dead end, beyond suggesting that you check out the archives of the National Film Board of Canada. I'd be surprised if they didn't make the film you're remembering.
http://www.nfb.ca/
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 18 May 2009 17:03 (seventeen years ago)
^^^do this anyway! Thanks to this thread I spent a good half an hour watching stuff, it's really good. Didn't find no men in bowler hats but it was a great distraction.
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 18 May 2009 17:10 (seventeen years ago)
http://globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/clockwork_orange_fight.jpg
― snoball, Monday, 18 May 2009 17:10 (seventeen years ago)
ya, and their website is awesome, you can watch billions of weird old movies online
xxp
― s1ocki, Monday, 18 May 2009 17:10 (seventeen years ago)
This for instance...http://www.nfb.ca/film/23_skidoo/
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 18 May 2009 17:16 (seventeen years ago)
And this one is great too.http://www.nfb.ca/film/montreal_by_night/
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 18 May 2009 17:23 (seventeen years ago)
And hells-bells the awesome Neighbours by Norman McLaranhttp://www.nfb.ca/film/neighbours_voisins/(contains violence it warns!)
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 18 May 2009 17:24 (seventeen years ago)
check this out:
http://www.nfb.ca/film/memories-angels-trailer/
trailer (you can watch all of it online i think) for this really cool movie made up entirely of NFB stock footage of montreal
― s1ocki, Monday, 18 May 2009 17:31 (seventeen years ago)
I am in total awe of that quick sketch, Abbott.
― StanM, Monday, 18 May 2009 18:04 (seventeen years ago)
I don't know if this is a dream or not! Everything I learned about Canada came from this video & it's all been true except zero other people have heard of this dance. But I remember it being a thing my friend & I (who had that social studies class together) would make fun of.
― fear mongrels (Abbott), Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:38 (sixteen years ago)
i really want this to exist
― gg eileen (jjjusten), Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:51 (sixteen years ago)
no luck on youtube so far tho
was this dance as fucking scary as i imagine it in my mind based on that image?
― the depressed-saggy-japanese-salaryman of ilx posters (Will M.), Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:55 (sixteen years ago)
They all look so intense.
― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:56 (sixteen years ago)
i am reasonably sure it is clogging line dance, and they have a competition for that in edmonton
no bowler hats sighted yet tho
― gg eileen (jjjusten), Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:04 (sixteen years ago)
omg the riches that surface from investigating edmontons clogging scene!
― gg eileen (jjjusten), Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:07 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.edsda.org/images/HappyCouple.JPG
That photo alone is a treasure.
― fear mongrels (Abbott), Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:10 (sixteen years ago)