A Dance Tour of a Dead Campus

This video is the product of procrastination mixed with a need to escape a studio apartment. I took a walk not really caring where I was ending up just floating about in the nicer weather, I came across an empty parking lot that was across the Olentangy River and decided it would be the perfect spot to stop and maybe move around a bit and shake out my bones, relax my mind and let my body take over. However once I started dancing I found it increasingly hard to stop. I bounced all around campus moving and grooving to my favorite songs:

UGH! - 1975

Honeysea ll - Hans., Swrly, Ivoris, Will Qu

Time - Chewing, Local Natives, Nico Segal

Animal Spirits - Vulfpeck

Heavyweight Champion of the Year - Nilüfer Yanya

iloveyou - BETWEEN FRIENDS

In Cold Blood (ft. Pusha T) Twin Shadow Version - alt-J, Pusha T, Twin Shadow

My movement motivation came from a need to escape the cramped mindset and inconsistent routine I had been living for the past couple weeks. I escaped into my own body, by letting my body do the thinking I had given myself time to reconnect the relationships I have with myself that I had been losing during my time cooped up at home. This escape into my dance world self had given me so much confidence. Before this dance I would have never been caught dancing alone on the streets, afraid of making a target of myself, being subject to catcalling. But there was a gut feeling that I could care less about what onlookers might have been thinking which is out of the ordinary for myself but it was so freeing, I've always wanted to be able to dance along the oval and I was able to within my escape from my cramped studio and my cramped mindset.

 

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Uploaded on April 24, 2020