Andrew Jeanes pointed this out to me:
The twerking gets all the play because white people think it’s a funny word, but it’s that unison at 1:13 that just kills me: until that moment I didn’t realize that there was an ideal to which “group hip-hop choreo for people in Stormtrooper outfits” could aspire, but yeah, that unison is: the use of unison animation-style to reflect machinelike fascism, that’s it right there.
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I’m actually kind of fascinated by how you can read the storm trooper costumes as having both male and female anatomical details.
@NCallahan I just noticed that too, and I wonder what it says about how we think about dancing…
So glad you mentioned that this video was more than twerking. I had been avoiding it because “twerking storm troopers” was a cultural appropriation I just couldn’t stomach.
I’m honestly a little surprised you don’t’ have a dancing tag. But that was very enjoyable.