Danse du Jour

[shanmonster]

Yolanda "Tongolele" Montes does a bizarre falling down and rolling around dance at the end of this clip.

I'm not terribly fond of her costume, but that's just how dancers dressed around 1949.

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Comments

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

My favorite aspect is how intently the women are watching and enjoying her dance. There's no annoying, bitchy jealousy or acting-all-in-a-huff over the guys in the audience watching.

[mysteryelfx.livejournal.com]

Bizarre.

[tobysionann.livejournal.com]

Looks and sounds very Caribbean. What movie is this from? Maybe the end part is supposed to imitate something Santería in nature? Very cool.

[alphito.livejournal.com]

yep, that definitely looks like a little bit of voodoo going on!

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

Do you know if there are any old-school Apache dance material from French kinoscopes out there Shan?

I went looking a while ago on YouTube, but apparently as soon as you searched "Apache" on YouTube at the time, all you would get were Native American materials.


[EDIT] whoops - my bad, apparently someone's uploaded a few since...