Advanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 20 image entries Contest Directions:
Special kind of dog training craze is spreading in the US - it is dog dancing classes. Professional dog trainers will teach your canine friend the art of hip-hop dance, polka, or disco.
And forget "Dancing with the Stars", it is the dogs that rule the dance floors now...
Photoshop any animals dancing any kind of dance. Some examples are: cats dancing tango, monkeys doing break dance, Saturday Night Fever for bugs dancing disco...
You can use human parts in your animal figures, but you can not submit just dancing people without any animal heads / parts.
[ browse best gallery pictures ] Tags: dancinganimals Jackpot: 1st place: $5, 2nd place: $3 , 3rd place: $2 Started: 11/25/2007 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 11/27/2007 6:00:00 AM
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Dance is a means of nonverbal self-expression by the dancer, manifesting it as rhythmically organized in the space and time of the body movements.
Dance prevailed and prevails in the cultural tradition of all human beings and society. For the long history of the mankind it changed, reflecting the cultural development. There exists huge multiple variety of styles and forms of dance:
Dances and religion exists in a difficult interrelation. Ball (paired) dances; Latino-American dances are banned in the Muslim countries - it is treated as sin, indecency. Orthodox Christians prohibited waltz dance, Tango and others.
Many religions ban erotic dances, stripteases, “dirty dances” – in the Hinduism The god Shiva – is the king of dances.
More important: our whole world, Whole universe – This, in the presentation of the Hinduism, it is the dancing material. Compare: in the materialism “The universe – A moving material”.
A unique phenomenon of the dance has emerged from the requirements of the man to express his emotional play, sense of involvement in the surrounding world.
With out any mathematical education, man felt, that all, which exists in time, is dependant on rhythmic objective laws. In alive or not alive in the environment the processes are rhythmic and periodic. The rhythm is ontological characteristic. It has to be naturally received that \cosmos is majestic, harmonious, rhythmically organized.
Forcing your body to pulsate in coordination with the cosmic rhythms, human being felt their existence in the structure of the world’s existence. The primitive dance was developed till the music and the existence of a original under rhythm simple beating instruments.
The rhythmical organized body movements shows firm influence on the subconscious, and then under consciousness. This property of the dance is used in the dance therapy now a day will go away with the roots into the old ages of the ritual dancing. The rhythm is related with the muscle reactivity of the man. The slave traders were aware of this, transporting huge quantities of black slaves in the lower holds of the ships: Dances which were provoked by the beating instruments, made the periodical wave which arose among the slaves.
The war ritual dances among the ancient people took place in a potentially rhythmic manner. This brought the participants of the dancing activity and the audience together into a single rhythmic pulse, which released huge quantity of energy, necessary in the wars. It is noticed long back, that group rhythmical body movements brings for the appearance of a mystic sense of relationship, unity of the people with one another. That’s why many people have dances in their history, constructed according to the circular rule, ring dances, spinning around the shoulders of one another with hands or simply holding their hands. Dancing gave the energy required for experiencing the most important events of life.
Dancing had significant ritual character, whether it was a part of the religious faith, whether served as a means of communication (daily dances and festival dances), whether it was a magical exorcism-dance and so on. But it was strictly lined-up.
This image was inspired by a poem by Ken Nesbit. It's funny. Hope you have time to read it.
The Cow Town Ballet
This here is the story of Jed Beaudelay, who once was the head of the Cow Town Ballet, the greatest of all of the old western sights, for Jed would take milk cows and dress them in tights.
In tutus and slippers his cows would sashay, they'd spin pirouettes, they'd glissade and plie. And cowpokes from Boston to Monterey Bay would journey to Cow Town to see the ballet.
And every night how his cattle would dance! They'd act out a musical cattle romance, with skill and precision, with grace and with flair, they'd glide 'cross the stage and they'd leap through the air.
And when it was over the cowpokes would cheer and even the manliest men shed a tear for nowhere on Earth but the Cow Town Ballet had anyone ever seen cattle sashay.
Old Jed Beaudelay would still run the ballet, if not for the fact that when cattle sashay, and all of their tutus are flapping around their costumes make sort of a shuffling sound.
And some no-good cowpoke, on hearing that sound, grew rather unhappy; he stopped and he frowned, then ran to the sheriff, deciding to tattle, so Jed was arrested for rustling cattle!
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