It sure SEEMED to be like what I see astronauts do in video footage. The one difference is the drift factor, the pilot has to adjust how the plane falls through the parabola, and as it is adjusted the "walls move" because the plane starts falling faster or slower than you while you are in the air. I explain it in this 4 year old post: stardancemovie.blogspot.com/2008/01/stardance-ii-las-vegas-drift.html
Take this idea one step farther and equip the dancers with small airjets that they could control with fingertip controls then they would be able to alter speed, trajectory, rotation and orientation while in flight between rebound points. You could even do this to some extent by including descrete bellows inside the costumes that would compress the air when they moved and then let them release it in controlled bursts. Now the purists can scream at me for corrupting the idea of free flight.
@nullrox Really disappointing, unfortunately. You spend far too much time trying just to hold onto each other and not get a concussion while spinning around the bulkheads.
@andrewpuchala - it was VERY hard to make things stay still for those measly 25 seconds. There were issues in the nature of how the plane goes through the parabola that caused the walls to "move" as well. Check the stardancemovie blog from January 2008.
@jsposto That's perhaps the main reason that flight has its nickname. I imagine you would have preferred a more stable environment to float around. Beautifully done, however. To be that graceful so far outside your environment. Enchanting.
@nullrox Remember, Michael Collins was all alone in Apollo 11 while Aldrin and Armstrong were on the Moon; I've often wondered if he jerked off while he was alone.
It looks fabulous, and I'm glad Jeanne has FINALLY gotten to experience free-fall. (Long ago, I wanted to magically stop an airplane inverted at the top of a loop and just...meditate, weightless. But aerobatics don't work like that.
Voir une belle jeune femme qui danse ainsi, en ressentant pendant ce temps toutes les sensations fortes d'une parfaite chute libre, c'est vraiment DELICIEUX.
Did you see any of the Olympic diving and gymnastics? OK now imagine those people set free to perform at the same speed and complexity but with no gravity or time limit to their movements. That's what it will be like.
They should really lose the yoga legs position tho. It strongly associates to sitting still on the ground in gravity, so it's a totally dissonant element here. Also it's tight and locked in an environment that's about total freedom of movement. Inappropriate element.
This slow music seems right for this speed of dance but I'd like to see some fast fluid dancing to like, Depeche Mode or 80s new wave. With colored lights, and mist please!
I think I understand about your yoga comment. It is rigid, after all. But, frankly, it doesn't bother me in this context...a testing of the 'system'. And, considering the total lack of gravity, it might be a nice anchor to have. Anyway, this stuff is just too cool.
One thing that can be said in defense of the lotus position: it is associated with levitation.
I could imagine a five or ten minute dance starting with the dancer sitting on a surface in lotus position with her eyes closed. Using her fingertips, she slowly drifts off of the surface, and after a few seconds of that the tempo picks up, she opens her eyes, comes out of lotus and does her dance.
Then, after taking full advantage of the weightless environment, the music slows and becomes softer, she goes back into lotus position, closes her eyes, and settles back onto the surface.
She's have to gauge her speed just right, and use just the right pressure from her fingertips, or she'll simply bounce off, and how uncool is that?
But dancers have been having to get things just right for millinnia, so I don't think that will be a problem.
Someday there will be huge cathedral-like orbital globes where dancers can have hundreds of feet of linear range and vast volume to perform in. Group choreography will become a mind-blowing challenge with mind-blowing results. Imagine what they could do with lighting and volume mist effects. In 50 years ALL young dancers will want to get into space; funding will be available for them because billions will crave to watch them! Eventually ordinary folk will get to visit orbital zero-g discos.
My God, this clip is actually serious art history. Right? I mean it's the first time humans have seriously tried to dance in zero- G (other than skydiving which doesn't count because you're so encumbered by equipment and constrained by safety concerns). So dancers will look back in 100 years and watch this very clip in awe--"this is how it started".
And even in this short clip you can see the awesome implications--the fluidity of movement and the potential SPEED and RANGE of the phrases!
Yay! I watched the other one like ten times a day. A few more seconds makes me very very happy (especially since it shows Jeanne flying a bit!) Best of luck with the project!
Spider Robinson....
Pandoranage4101 1 month ago
Me likes earth females
Lex5151 1 month ago
I wonder if this has truly the same feeling as being in orbit?
fakeusa 1 month ago 3
It sure SEEMED to be like what I see astronauts do in video footage. The one difference is the drift factor, the pilot has to adjust how the plane falls through the parabola, and as it is adjusted the "walls move" because the plane starts falling faster or slower than you while you are in the air. I explain it in this 4 year old post: stardancemovie.blogspot.com/2008/01/stardance-ii-las-vegas-drift.html
jsposto 1 month ago
Take this idea one step farther and equip the dancers with small airjets that they could control with fingertip controls then they would be able to alter speed, trajectory, rotation and orientation while in flight between rebound points. You could even do this to some extent by including descrete bellows inside the costumes that would compress the air when they moved and then let them release it in controlled bursts. Now the purists can scream at me for corrupting the idea of free flight.
21batbat 1 month ago
@21batbat - In the actual original story, and in the subsequent screenplay, that is just what happens.
jsposto 1 month ago
. . .I'm seriously wondering what sex would be like in zero gravity.
nullrox 2 months ago 14
@nullrox Really disappointing, unfortunately. You spend far too much time trying just to hold onto each other and not get a concussion while spinning around the bulkheads.
andrewpuchala 1 month ago
@andrewpuchala - it was VERY hard to make things stay still for those measly 25 seconds. There were issues in the nature of how the plane goes through the parabola that caused the walls to "move" as well. Check the stardancemovie blog from January 2008.
jsposto 1 month ago
@jsposto That's perhaps the main reason that flight has its nickname. I imagine you would have preferred a more stable environment to float around. Beautifully done, however. To be that graceful so far outside your environment. Enchanting.
andrewpuchala 1 month ago
@nullrox Annoying? And you'd have to make sure to blow your load in her or it would be floating around lol
CaptainMetalwing 1 month ago
@nullrox it was my first thought too :))
Loft1987 1 month ago
@nullrox Love is in the air.
TCfoxs 1 month ago
@nullrox lots of backflips ;)
TechFrosts 1 month ago
@nullrox i don't know but the clean up must be hard if you decide to cum in zero gravity
TheMopardude 1 month ago
@nullrox Remember, Michael Collins was all alone in Apollo 11 while Aldrin and Armstrong were on the Moon; I've often wondered if he jerked off while he was alone.
SatchmoSings 2 days ago
It looks fabulous, and I'm glad Jeanne has FINALLY gotten to experience free-fall. (Long ago, I wanted to magically stop an airplane inverted at the top of a loop and just...meditate, weightless. But aerobatics don't work like that.
jrcadet4 1 year ago
WoW,I tried this in NASA space center in Canada but there is less of oxygen and I breath hard.....
miodragmilosevicbl 2 years ago
wow....i wanna try this?Where can i find this?
geniussesme 2 years ago
Voir une belle jeune femme qui danse ainsi, en ressentant pendant ce temps toutes les sensations fortes d'une parfaite chute libre, c'est vraiment DELICIEUX.
PhilippeRgt 2 years ago
It's beautiful, but zero G dancing has got to be one expensive hobby!
I'm assuming they shot this in that airplane they call the Vomit Comet?
customcartoons 3 years ago
I'm in love...
nicdhana 3 years ago
Did you see any of the Olympic diving and gymnastics? OK now imagine those people set free to perform at the same speed and complexity but with no gravity or time limit to their movements. That's what it will be like.
Rep0007 3 years ago
They should really lose the yoga legs position tho. It strongly associates to sitting still on the ground in gravity, so it's a totally dissonant element here. Also it's tight and locked in an environment that's about total freedom of movement. Inappropriate element.
This slow music seems right for this speed of dance but I'd like to see some fast fluid dancing to like, Depeche Mode or 80s new wave. With colored lights, and mist please!
Rep0007 3 years ago
I think I understand about your yoga comment. It is rigid, after all. But, frankly, it doesn't bother me in this context...a testing of the 'system'. And, considering the total lack of gravity, it might be a nice anchor to have. Anyway, this stuff is just too cool.
peterthorpe 3 years ago
One thing that can be said in defense of the lotus position: it is associated with levitation.
I could imagine a five or ten minute dance starting with the dancer sitting on a surface in lotus position with her eyes closed. Using her fingertips, she slowly drifts off of the surface, and after a few seconds of that the tempo picks up, she opens her eyes, comes out of lotus and does her dance.
SailorBarsoom 3 years ago
Then, after taking full advantage of the weightless environment, the music slows and becomes softer, she goes back into lotus position, closes her eyes, and settles back onto the surface.
She's have to gauge her speed just right, and use just the right pressure from her fingertips, or she'll simply bounce off, and how uncool is that?
But dancers have been having to get things just right for millinnia, so I don't think that will be a problem.
SailorBarsoom 3 years ago
Someday there will be huge cathedral-like orbital globes where dancers can have hundreds of feet of linear range and vast volume to perform in. Group choreography will become a mind-blowing challenge with mind-blowing results. Imagine what they could do with lighting and volume mist effects. In 50 years ALL young dancers will want to get into space; funding will be available for them because billions will crave to watch them! Eventually ordinary folk will get to visit orbital zero-g discos.
Rep0007 3 years ago
My God, this clip is actually serious art history. Right? I mean it's the first time humans have seriously tried to dance in zero- G (other than skydiving which doesn't count because you're so encumbered by equipment and constrained by safety concerns). So dancers will look back in 100 years and watch this very clip in awe--"this is how it started".
And even in this short clip you can see the awesome implications--the fluidity of movement and the potential SPEED and RANGE of the phrases!
Rep0007 3 years ago
I still watch this every few days (down from multiple times a day) I'm so excited about this project it's silly.
ruespieler 3 years ago
yeaah Kathleen! one of Canada's finest.
Kriyatrix 4 years ago
this is fantastic work.
would love to see more like it.
foe
nicksly 4 years ago
Oh, WOW! I've been dreaming of this since I first read "Stardance". To see it gives me shivers down the spine!
firedrake54 4 years ago
Yay! I watched the other one like ten times a day. A few more seconds makes me very very happy (especially since it shows Jeanne flying a bit!) Best of luck with the project!
ruespieler 4 years ago
Bravo!
Congratulations on making this dream closer to reality. As we've imagined for decades, this is truly lovely.
phaedress 4 years ago