Ramo Ramo lyrics, Bollywood movie "Dosti"

It's amazing what you can find on youtube if you have enough time to fritter... here's a video clip from a 1964 Bollywood movie, with Serbian+English subtitles for the lyrics of Ramo, Ramo, Druze Moj, by Slobodan Ilic:

Here's the link to the video with Ramo Ramo:
https://youtu.be/OED8wys7_sY?t=1m44s

Here's a link to about the same point in the Bollywood version of the movie, with a different song, presumably in Hindi: https://youtu.be/C1CLFK9T028

Here's the Wikipedia entry for the 1964 Dosti movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosti

Activity Involving Dancing and Other Rhythmic Movements

If you watch TV, you've probably seen the 30-sec version of this commercial -- here's an expanded version on youtube (warning, the song will probably be playing in your head the rest of the day if you watch this.  And, don't try this at home!):


(Note: I have nothing to do with UHC, just find this commercial amusing.)

Catcordion + Garmoshka

If you like cats, accordions, or just wasting time surfing the web, here are a couple of websites:

http://catcordion.sergethew.com/

http://artpolikarpov.github.io/garmoshka/

To get the full effect, when you're on one of those sites, resize your browser bigger, smaller, bigger, smaller...

Cross-step waltz, Ragtime two-step, Victorian dances - Apr 4-6, 2014

Received from Mady:

Susan de Guardiola will be teaching an introduction to cross-step waltz next Saturday, April 4, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Ida Noyes Hall during the afternoon workshops of the University of Chicago's contra dance weekend with Les Z Boys and Seth Tepfer (which should itself be a fun time!). Then she'll be teaching Ragtime and Two step at Fermilab's Barn on Sunday afternoon, April 5, 3 to 6 p.m., and Cross Step Waltz - review and further moves Sunday evening from 7 to 10 p.m. (suggested $10 donation per workshop).

Monday evening, April 6, at Oak Park's 19th Century Club, Susan will present dances of the Victorian era for a Victorian Ball, 7 to 10 p.m., with live music by the Cosmic Otters and Tim Macdonald.

more information:  English dancing website.

 

Flyer:

http://www.fnal.gov/orgs/folkdance/english/SDWwSdG2015.pdf

NPR: Chinese regulation of "square" dancing

Heard this story on NPR this evening:
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/27/395817212/in-regulating-outdoor-dancing-china-tells-seniors-how-to-bust-a-move


Here's another related link
: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/24/395105501/china-is-going-to-regulate-outdoor-square-dancing

Prickly City Dancing Cartoon

http://www.gocomics.com/pricklycity/2015/03/22

MIT Folk Dance Club Song Book link

I came across this the other day:

http://people.brandeis.edu/~gessel/songbook/fd.pdf

It has the words for many of the tunes we dance to, in case anybody wants to learn them and sing along.