[S2E9] The Dance
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In any case, Hopper negotiates one night of leniency so El can go to the middle school Snow Ball (also an apt term for how everything happens in Hawkins: It snowballs). Compared to most middle school dances, this one is surprisingly lively; all the kids are pairing off and putting their arms around each other. Lucas stammers out a request to Max ("Hey, um, it's nice, right?"), and she leads him onto the floor while Dustin looks on.
Stranger Things is still driven by that kind of act of friendship, but it's also a show about kids who are starting to think they might want more. The season ends by pairing everyone off like, well, a middle school slow dance. Nancy and Jonathan exchange smiles. Lucas and Max kiss. In the parking lot, Hopper and Joyce share a cigarette and bond in their grief. And Eleven and Mike finally get their West Side Story moment, locking eyes across the gym. He asks her to dance; she says she doesn't know how. "I don't either," Mike says. "Do you want to figure it out?" It is ADORABLE. He guides her arms to his shoulders, and this time, no one interrupts their kiss.
The boys are photographed by their mothers as they prepare to go to the Snow Ball. Will's drawing of Bob as a superhero is hanging on the Byers fridge. Lucas practices asking Max to dance while Erica Sinclair teases him.
Dustin has done his hair using Steve's routine, who is driving him to the dance and hypes him up. As Dustin enters, Steve stares at a chaperoning Nancy before driving away, content. Nancy shares a smile with Jonathan, who is photographing the dance.
As "Time After Time" starts playing, Lucas awkwardly fails to ask Max to dance, but she accepts regardless. Will is invited to dance with a female classmate. Dustin fails to get a dance, and Nancy, feeling bad for him, tells him he was always her favorite of Mike's friends and dances with him. Joyce and Hopper share a smoke outside. He promises her that dealing with Bob's death will get easier every day and puts his arm around her.
As "Every Breath You Take" plays, Eleven enters the dance wearing Hopper's bracelet made from Sara's hairband around her wrist. Mike invites her to dance, and agrees when she says she does not know how. She accepts when he asks if she wants to figure it out with him.
The way Beard dances, especially at first, is beautiful because it's unstructured: he's twisting, letting his arms hang, like he's forcing the misery of his evening out of the ends of his fingers. And then suddenly, Jane is there, and she gives him a hula hoop and says, "Try this on." And he does, and he hula hoops his way up onto a platform, and the people cheer for him. And then he is with Jane, and they are dancing together, and the world is, presumably, more interesting again.
Because ... Beard should break up with Jane. Higgins is still right. For one thing, as soon as Jane doesn't get the response she wants from Beard, she turns nasty and spiteful. Again, the surface story, which is about her finally declaring that she loves him and then about them finding each other, is in conflict with the real story, which is that Jane is ... not very nice. The power of the scene where Beard dances in the club isn't that it's a beautiful romantic climax. It's that it's an explanation of why he cannot seem to extricate himself from this bad relationship. What makes the worst relationships so dangerous is that they have elements that feel good that are very hard to get elsewhere. Beard knows that; he tells it to God. What's concerning isn't that Jane makes the world seem more interesting; what's concerning is she's the only thing that does. That doesn't take away from the joy of the dancing; it just tells you that even happiness is complicated.
Despite some disapproval from the moms (and the children) to the skimpy costumes, the dance went on with the girls wearing flesh-colored costumes for the performance. Throughout the performance, the judges and moms squirmed. And it ended up not placing at the competition.
Richy does a double-squirrel-waved upper body spin cycle and calls the dance fantastical. He says she was graceful and effortless. Abby calls out the technical issues. Then she asks Gianna if she enjoys playing someone else much more than dancing as just Gianna. Gianna nods somberly. Abby tells her to take all those negative emotions and use them to step out on the stage to have the time of her life. She tells her she did a great job.
McKaylee is declared safe first, followed quickly by Gianna. Abby tells JoJo that she danced up. Before you throw something at your televisions, AUDC fans, take heart. Asia made it to third place in a field of more technically talented dancers in Season 1, too, because she and her mother made for good, lightning rod TV. No one expected her to go to the Joffrey. They expected her to make us talk. And when it came down to whom Abby sent to the Joffrey in the name of the AUDC, she picked a poised and talented and deserving dancer.
I think that Trinity deserved a second chance. I disagree that Jojo should go home; I think that Gianna should go home. She is too old to make such stupid mistakes and comments, but I like all of the girls. Personally, McKaylee is also my favorite. She is so mature and such a good dancer!
In December 2015, Lyndsy Fonseca was revealed to be reprising her season one role of Angie Martinelli for a dream sequence in this episode. The musical sequence, dubbed an informal crossover with Dancing with the Stars, features many of the professional dancers from that series, including Louis van Amstel, Dmitry Chaplin, Karina Smirnoff, Anna Trebunskaya, Sasha Farber, and Damian Whitewood. Dancers Robert Roldan, Malene Ostergaard, Amanda Balen, Serge Onik, Jenya Shatilova, Lacey Escabar, Alla Kocherga, and Paul Kirkland are also featured in the sequence.[2]
The dance number used in the dream sequence was an original song from lyricist David Zippel and series composer Christopher Lennertz, in conjunction with Butters and Fazekas.[2] Titled "Whatcha Gonna Do (It's Up to You)", the single was performed by Atwell and Gjokaj along with the Hollywood Studio Symphony, and was released on iTunes on March 18, 2016.[6]
Samantha experiences the revival of the once earthquake devastated city of Christchurch, New Zealand by starting her journey off at the Gap Filler initiatives. These innovative installations temporarily fill the gaps of the city rebuild with fun distractions like the Dance O Mat, where you can plug in your digital device into an old washing machine, blast your music and dance to your favorite tunes with your friends on a dance floor. Moving on, Samantha visits the whimsical C1 Espresso shop, where her lunch is delivered via pneumatic tube. Keeping on track, Samantha visits with Jade, who runs a Gap Filler garden and cafe where Samantha learns about the Maori tradition and the different indigenous vegetables and flowers grown in Jade's garden. Leaving Christchurch, Samantha explores Akaroa Harbor stopping off at the Giants House, a mosaic art collection utilizing porcelain. Penguins in New Zealand? Samantha visits a local farm that has been concentrating its conservation efforts on protecting the endangered Pohatu Penguins. From one farm to the next, Samantha joins Angela and Chef Giulio for a picnic, that consists of wild elderflower and artichokes that they collectively just foraged. North Canterbury wineries are quite the hit, as Samantha tries some local wine and chats with the local winemakers about the unique New Zealand tradition of wine. Heading back to the city, Samantha checks out the newly reopened City Library and all its wonderful technological resources. Finishing off her trip, Samantha heads back to the Dance O Mat to dance Bollywood style with the locals. 781b155fdc