Video Sunday – Dance, Airports, and Radio

Three things today.

Thing #1 is described on YouTube in this fashion:

"A Selection" is a collaborative work of Maurice Sendak and Pilobolus. This is part 1 of 2. Performance starts at 0:40.

"A Selection" is a dance that depicts the brutality of Hitler’s Holocaust as it affected those, especially the children, who suffered at the hands of the Nazis. The title of the work comes from the process where camp arrivals are separated to work or to die – as shown in Part 2. Some are "selected" to work while others are stripped of everything they have and sent to the gas chambers.

I liked the first one so much, and my layover on the way back was EVEN LONGER! So I just had to do it…y’know…the full song.

And finally, link #3 is to the Library of Congress website. Ah, LOC. Your budgets make me squirm. Check out these fancy dancy public service announcements they made on the site involving Oz, Hogwarts, and Camelot. Hogwarts is probably the best, though they’re all pretty amazing.