Diana Ross - 3 Dance Routines From TV - 1968/69

[Methuselah2]

Nothing new here; seen many times; yet always worth another look--

· TCB, 1968--African Dance Performance--

Thank you NegroEgo for the video posting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcWcsgn_tpI

· HOLLYWOOD PALACE, 1969--To Soulful Strut--

Thank you BlackAmericaCinema for the video posting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEj7b1mDXqI

· HOLLYWOOS PALACE, 1969--With Sammy Davis, Jr.--

Thank you luvMandD for the video posting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NMK8RvzgNs

[supremester]

I don't know how authentic Afro Vogue is, but it certainly took balls to do in 1968. I love how it segued into Somewhere. It was a slap in the face to every racist asshole in the world.

Soulful Strut has been a fave of mine since the first time it aired. I love every second of it, and that was one tough week for Miss Ross.

I love the Fred & Ginger routine except they needed another day to clean it up, the choreography stinks in parts and is obviously toned down at the last minute, the entire episode is directed poorly.

Thank you for posting these three great examples of Miss Ross' Supremacy.

[midnightman]

The Afro Vogue routine was one of the greatest routines I ever saw in my life. Diana Ross was an entertainer's entertainer. How in a world of tabloids and gossip in this day and age in the post-Thriller world of pop music do we often forget that... 1968 was a very rough year for sure though for America and Diana definitely took a risk, I think, with what she did with those performances.

[marybrewster]

Good gracious; I can't watch this without cracking up. Is Diana for REAL? Everything looks like a hot mess. The African Vogue dance; oh boy. Thankfully the majority of the dance was filled with stills of Diana in her drag. Overall, I think it looks more like the African Anteater Ritual:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxIrQPffSIg

I'm curious: were these dances included because of Diana's "selling out"? Hasn't it been said that she was "too white" or "not black enough"? I think this is TOO extreme and over the top.

The woman is a singer. They should have let her sing and left the dancing to the professionals.

[jobeterob]

This is when it was clear she was gone from the Supremes and the movie talk started.

[smark21]

I do get a good laugh at the end of the Soulful Strut number where Diana rolls on the floor.