How to do the saturday night fever dance
saturday night fever dance steps
TikTokUpload
For You
Following
tumaestrodedanza
Tú Maestro de Danza
Responder a @alberthdzrocha #AprendeEnTikTok #TutorialesCheck #parati
1.2K Likes, 11 Comments. TikTok video from Tú Maestro de Danza (@tumaestrodedanza): "Responder a @alberthdzrocha #AprendeEnTikTok #TutorialesCheck #parati". Cintura a los lados | Integro el brazo, abajo y arriba en diagonal | Ahora un poco de estilo | .... More Than A Woman - From "Saturday Night Fever" Soundtrack.
72.2K views|
More Than A Woman - From "Saturday Night Fever" Soundtrack - Bee Gees
lindafelixr
Linda Félix
Cuantos pasos ya conocías? 🕺🏻 #disco #tutorial #retro #dancing #goodvibes
2. 2K Likes, 10 Comments. TikTok video from Linda Félix (@lindafelixr): "Cuantos pasos ya conocías? 🕺🏻 #disco #tutorial #retro #dancing #goodvibes". ✨ Disco ✨ | Paso 1 | Paso 2 | .... Night Fever - From "Saturday Night Fever" Soundtrack.
35.3K views|
Night Fever - From "Saturday Night Fever" Soundtrack - Bee Gees
itsmirandaderrick
Miranda Derrick
Doing one of my fav dances with my fav guy❤️ @bdash_2 DC: @_aubreyfisher @itzslavik #fyp #foryou #stayinalive
611.3K Likes, 10.5K Comments. TikTok video from Miranda Derrick (@itsmirandaderrick): "Doing one of my fav dances with my fav guy❤️ @bdash_2 DC: @_aubreyfisher @itzslavik #fyp #foryou #stayinalive". Stayin' Alive - From "Saturday Night Fever" Soundtrack.
13.2M views|
Stayin' Alive - From "Saturday Night Fever" Soundtrack - Bee Gees
lindafelixr
Linda Félix
Responder a @mr.
black.58 Pasos básicos disco 🕺🏻⚡️ a bailar!!!!! #disco #dancing #discodance #tutorial #goodvibes
50.5K Likes, 146 Comments. TikTok video from Linda Félix (@lindafelixr): "Responder a @mr.black.58 Pasos básicos disco 🕺🏻⚡️ a bailar!!!!! #disco #dancing #discodance #tutorial #goodvibes". ⚡️Disco⚡️ | Un brazo extendido y el otro va de arriba abajo | Mueve la cadera y da pequeños pasitos | .... Stayin' Alive - From "Saturday Night Fever" Soundtrack.
458K views|
Stayin' Alive - From "Saturday Night Fever" Soundtrack - Bee Gees
juliaraveyscience
Julia Ravey Science
Saturday Night Fever - Rave Sister Style 🔥 #dance #newdance #goviral #fyp #learndance #foryoupage #sisters
TikTok video from Julia Ravey Science (@juliaraveyscience): "Saturday Night Fever - Rave Sister Style 🔥 #dance #newdance #goviral #fyp #learndance #foryoupage #sisters".
Night Fever - Workout Remix 128 BPM.
5544 views|
Night Fever - Workout Remix 128 BPM - Power Music Workout
screen_devils
Screen Devils
Saturday night fever- iconic scene with #johntravolta showing how its done #saturdaynightfever #dance #dancing #beegees #film #movies #fyp #foryourpage #share #youshouldbedancing #dancemoves
21.7K Likes, 836 Comments. TikTok video from Screen Devils (@screen_devils): "Saturday night fever- iconic scene with #johntravolta showing how its done #saturdaynightfever #dance #dancing #beegees #film #movies #fyp #foryourpage #share #youshouldbedancing #dancemoves". John Travolta showing how its done. You Should Be Dancing.
374.
5K views|
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
Film/Classic: Saturday Night Fever
By Carter B. Horsley
"Saturday Night Fever" has the greatest soundtrack and the greatest opening sequence in film history.
The movie opens with a close-up of a pair of men's shoes walking at a determined pace in perfect sync with some really peppy music.
The shoes are on the feet of John Travolta, the star of the movie who had previously only been known for "Welcome Back Kotter," a not terribly brilliant television show.
We quickly can see that we're not on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan but somewhere in one of New York's large boroughs.
It could be the Bronx, or Queens, but it is Brooklyn and not downtown Brooklyn but perhaps Bensonhurst or Bay Ridge, neigbhorhoods far removed from the sophistication of "On the Town."
The camera zooms backwards so we can conjure the full manhood of Travolta: a lean body wrapped in tight clothes and topped by a large crop of hair. He is not handsome in any traditional sense, but he does exude sex appeal.
The movie tells the story of a young, uncultured man who is a very good dancer, good enough to get just about any young girl at the local disco to dance with him and to gather about him an adoring pack of less gifted young men. To win the top dancing prize at the disco is a worthy goal for Travolta whose life does not really have any holy grails.
Travolta's character preens himself for Saturday night at the disco and when he gets there and steps onto the dance floor he transforms from a gangly but well-pressed teen into an electrifying dancing machine
Many of his moves, gestures and poses are a bit dated, but while his choreography is not always inspired it is definitely on the beat.
If one looks carefully, one can discover that there are other people on the dance floor who are very good dancers, perhaps even as good in some of their moves as Travolta, but he has an "attitude," a sense of showmanship, that feeds off good competition.
The movie did not start the disco craze, of course, but it catapulted it into the rites of the night, the prelude to a climax, and indeed one of Travolta's "moves" is spinning his hands in front of him like a "choo-choo" building up power as it sets off on its powerful way.
The movie is not perfect. It focuses exclusively on men dancing, in a pair, with women, whereas in New York City in the late 1970s a sizable portion of the dance floor population danced with their own sex, or, more rarely, by themselves, studs showing off for their herd.
The Bee Gees were well-established as a popular group long before this movie, but the soundtrack for this movie, the biggest selling "album" of all-time at that point, transformed them into "magic.
" This writer, for example, was convinced that the lead singer had to be a women, not realizing initially that the group consisted of three brothers. The "magic," of course, was not so superficial.
Virtually every song on the album went, as they say, "to the top of the charts," and for anyone with any sense of rhythm the vast majority of these songs were totally irresistible: one had to move, to get up, and dance, perhaps with someone, or by oneself, and not with discrete steps in small spaces, but with explosive swirls and closed eyes because, better watch out, you owned the dance floor as you shifted from cloud to cloud.
For many views of the movie when it first came out, it was something of a let-down because they were already very familiar with the music and many of the best songs are hard to hear completely in the movie as they are faded in or out or lowered in the mix. Furthermore, much of the movie does not take place in the disco and the amount of dancing is considerably less than one might have expected.
The story itself, without the disco, might make a grade B Italian movie: a realistic take on the ennui of lower-class youth and their misogyny. That is a bit unfair. Travolta's mother in the movie is mocked for some of her beliefs but remains a relatively positive, if not pathetic figure, especially with regard to her husband who is a brutish dolt who angers Travolta when he hits his head unmindful of his coiffed hair. Travolta's attitude towards Donna Pescow's character is certainly not gentlemanly, but he does hold Karen Lynn Gornley's character is considerable regard because she works in Manhattan and has some sophistication. The movie, however, is not terribly romantic, but it is very gutsy. Travolta's gang gets into a brutal fight and the dumbest member jumps off the Verranzano Bridge because he's impregnated his girlfriend.
There are some moments in the film that really work well.
In his 1999 review of the movie, for example, Roger Ebert notes that:
"There is a scene in the movie where the hero, Tony Manero, sits on a bench with Stephanie, the girl he loves, and tells her all about one of the bridges out of Brooklyn: Its height, length, how many cubic yards of concrete went into its making--and you can taste his desire to cross that bridge and leave Brooklyn behind.
Earlier, Stephanie has described him in a few brutal words: 'You live with your parents, you hang with your buddies and on Saturday nights you burn it all off at 2001 Odyssey. You're a cliche. You're nowhere, goin' no place.'' Tony senses that she is right."
In another part of his review, Ebert provides the following observations:
"The movie's plot involves his choice between Annette (Donna Pescow), the girl who loves him, and Stephanie (Karen Lynn Gorney), the girl who works in Manhattan and represents his dream of class....I've always thought Annette was a better choice for Tony than Stephanie, because Annette has fewer delusions. ('Why do you hate me so much,' she asks him, 'when all I ever did was like you?') But Tony can't see that because he can't really see women at all, and in the cruel closing scenes he makes a half-hearted attempt to rape Stephanie, and then sits in the front seat of a car while Annette is being raped in the back by two of his buddies. Of course, at that time, in that milieu, perhaps it wasn't considered rape, but only an energetic form of courtship.
"
Indeed, it should be remembered that when the movie came out in 1977, Manhattan was totally obsessed with the wild, drug-infused euphoria of Steve Rubell's and Ian Shrager's Studio 54, the nightly late-night hangout for well-dressed celebrities and newspaper editors, back in the carefree days before AIDS. (See The City Review article on Anthony Haden-Guest's book on the famous disco.)
It is interesting that the movie's fascination with common folk predates the television shows of "American Idol" and various dance contests by several decades. Travolta's classic pose with his legs spread apart and his right hand pointing heavenwards is, at one point in the film, done of the entire "ensemble" of disco dancers in the best "spirit" of the Rockettes: a homogenization of talent that makes over-produced minor talents like Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston so irritating because of their lack of originality.
How original was Travolta's dancing? There are some parts that are wonderful as when he gyrates his hips with his body at a backwards slant and there are some parts that are just plain awkward and unattractive as when he opens and closes his knees.
The movie is, of course, pretty honest in showing him practicing moves with his partners. It is a very rare genius that can be completely spontaneous and mesmerizing graceful and surprising. Even Baryshnikov understands the importance of choreography.
In the final of the dance competition at the 2001 Odyssey disco, Travolta and Gorney win the top prize of $500, but in a surprise twist, Travolta gives the prize to the second-place team, a Puerto Rican couple, that he insists was better, a noble act that suggests that Travolta's character in the film may have more depth than we've imagined.
In his review of the film at epinions.com, Brian Koller wrote that "The cultural impact of Saturday Night Fever was immense. Today, the film defines an era: platform shoes, polyester shirts, big blow-dried hair, disco music, white suits, and strutting down the street," adding that according to the Internet Movie Database, Karen Lynn Gorney "later moved in with director Badham."
"'Saturday Night Fever,'" Koller continued, "was blessed with a number of great Bee Gee songs ('Staying Alive', 'Night Fever', 'How Deep is Your Love', 'More Than a Woman').
The Gibb brothers also wrote another important song from the film, 'If I Can't Have You' (performed by Yvonne Elliman). Four of these five songs would later become number one singles. "More Than a Woman" probably would have as well, but the Bee Gees shelved it so as not to compete with a version by Tavares."
Another non-Bee Gees song in the movie was "Disco Inferno."
"Amazingly," Mr. Koller observed, "none of the songs, nor the soundtrack itself, was nominated for an Academy Award. (The winner of Best Song that year went to maudlin, syrupy 'You Light Up My Life.') "
Travolta was nominated for an Oscar for best actor and he would go on the next year to more and better dancing in "Grease" with Olivia Newton-John.
"Saturday Night Fever" has the same grittiness as Budd Shulberg's "On the Waterfront," Sly Stallone's "Rocky," and John Wayne's "The Searchers."
John Travolta is great in this movie. The Bee Gees are great in this movie. Together they are unforgettable, inexorable forces propelled by the force of life whose achievements cannot be simply measured.
Click here to order the 30th anniversary DVD from amazon.com
Saturday night fever: amak_190 — LiveJournal
?- Cinema
- Medicine
- Education
- Cancel
Who doesn't know this guy?
Gypsies sold plastic bags with this picture in our city market for three rubles…
And who remembers such a film?
And the wonderful music of Bee Gees?
Once upon a time, in the 8th grade, my friend Vitalka and I came to the school modern dance club. And what kind of dance was “modern” in the late 70s? That's right - Disco!
Vitalka went to vocational school after the 8th grade, but I stayed.
Of the music we learned to dance to, I only remember the Teach In CD and the Bee Gees cassette.
The artistic director of our circle was an old woman of about 25 years old. But the old woman, as they now say, is "advanced." She had seen the movie "Saturday Night Fever" with John Travolta somewhere at private screenings! And then I only knew about this film what was written in some pamphlet, where some Komsomol agitator-propagandist clearly explained the meaning of the film - about the hard fate of a young man under capitalism, who is no one in this world of exploitation of man by man.
And only on Saturday evening, in the district club, he is the King! Because he knew how to dance well ... But on Monday he was back to work, again becoming a cog in this inhuman system ...
When, years later, I watched this film, I realized that the lively Komsomol propagandist was right about something ... Only the main character worked not at the machine tool or on the conveyor, but as a seller of paints in a store.
And the funniest thing I finally saw how Travolta danced! And I was amazed - our "old woman" - she put us Travolta's movements one on one!
Well, maybe except for the most erotic ones. But we didn't need it. Although we studied in the school auditorium in the evening after school, can you imagine what could happen to the head teacher if she stayed at school and accidentally looked into the auditorium?
Tags: Music, cinema, school
Subscribe
-
Tango after the rain
Somehow in the country I found a wall calendar brought from, I don’t remember where, or given by someone.
Some (I don't remember now) stylish artist... -
Tuning a motorized stroller
Everyone remembers Gaidai's film "Operation Y", and the luxurious motorized wheelchair used by Experienced, Coward and Dunce. But this would be so ...
-
Tears are pouring ice…
Somehow from the beginning of the year everything “spun, spun and rushed like a wheel…” Even an omicron managed to get sick. Although he was vaccinated in…
Photo
Hint someone donated a wall calendar. Some (can't remember now) stylish artist...
Motorized carriage tuning
Everyone remembers Gaidai's film "Operation Y", and the luxurious motorized carriage used by Experienced, Coward and Dunce. But this one…
Tears are pouring ice…
Somehow from the beginning of the year everything “spun, spun and rushed like a wheel…” Even managed to get sick with omicron. Although vaccinated in…
