This awesome video was taken at a music festival called, “Sasquatch” in Quincy, Washington during Memorial Day Weekend 2009. This video is making the rounds at some of the internet marketing places I frequent. I thought I’d share it with you here so you can turn off your TV for the rest of the day and think about what went on here.
There’s something cool about people that are either egomaniacs… or that just do as they wish without giving a damn what anyone else is thinking. Who knows which this guy is – but, it’s a great statement. He’s dancing in front of everyone by himself, shirtless… he’s not doing it because he’s good or buffed… he appears to be just having fun… digging the music… the scene.
Slowly this guy’s singular statement gains some momentum. You can learn something about the mindset of people as you watch how the first few dancers join – then the masses – and then the celebration at the end of the song… what does it all mean?
Really interesting video for me from a psychological standpoint… a peek at societal inhibition and what happens when the movement reaches “critical mass” so to speak and nearly everyone is jumping in.
If you have a fast internet connection you might want to see it in high quality…
Sasquatch Music Festival Dancer – high quality
Best of Life!
Vern
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Good post. Just hunting for other blog posts about this video after blogging about it myself. Watching the movement take life, the way the boulder gets kicked off the edge of a cliff and gains momentum. One could feel it teetering at the edge for the longest time, before it just gives way and everyone gets swallowed up into. Even though there had to be many people with negative feelings about the lone dancer, once the flood gates opened, they immediately converted and joined the dance.
Youtube has so many comments of people professing their love for the lone dancer that started it all. Psychologically, I think the comments would be vastly different had no one else joined the lone dancer. People would have only condescending things to say about the wierdo’s dancing, had that first people in the green shirt not joined the lone dancer to set off the “dance dance revolution” =)
Instead, because of the magical results, he is hailed as a genius, and a hero.
It’s amazing.
I’m looking at your blog and the first video you show of this guy. I can watch him all day. Maybe if I’d been in the USA the past almost 5 years my viewpoint would be different. I can really see how most of us in the US are clones of each other… afraid of being different. Afraid of doing what we want when it doesn’t harm anyone else. I think the music is a bit too romantic or moody for anyone to join in with him and have it turn into anything. The other song – Unstoppable – has quite a beat and probably helped a lot.
You’re right – if the first guy wouldn’t have joined – what then? Then the 2nd. From there it was almost a no-brainer and easy for anyone else to throw away their inhibitions and go for it.
While I don’t often feel the need to dance in public – at least not on a mass scale such as this – I just might have been found in that group before it was all over. That’s a great song too – gotta find that on Youtube.
Thanks for writing.