# Videoclips with dancers dancing while lying down or sitting down? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videoclips-with-dancers-dancing-while-lying-down-or-sitting-down/439978 "2008-03-04T00:52:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videoclips-with-dancers-dancing-while-lying-down-or-sitting-down/439978/1 "2008-03-04T00:52:18Z")
I’m looking for some examples of people dancing while laying down or sitting down. Like [this videoclip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xSLpoQdRrU)to Kylie Minogues hit “Slow”, where people dance while laying on towels near a swimming pool. Recently, I saw another clip, but I missed who the artist was. A boy and a girl were dancing while laying down on a footpath in a park. There was some clever play where the couple, still laying down, also danced with the shadows of people standing upright near them. Can anyone point me to other clips? ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videoclips-with-dancers-dancing-while-lying-down-or-sitting-down/439978/2 "2008-03-04T01:50:31Z")
[QUOTE=Maastricht] Can anyone point me to other clips? [/QUOTE] Easy. At the 2:41 mark of [this clip](http://youtube.com/watch?v=qdRc7F9lDEc). ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videoclips-with-dancers-dancing-while-lying-down-or-sitting-down/439978/3 "2008-03-04T03:15:32Z")
A classic of the genre: [Kate Bush: December Will Be Magic Again](http://youtube.com/watch?v=pfD7FzcjVyQ&feature=inbox) A wonderfully expressive and evocative piece of dance, and she never gets out of the chair. Disclaimer: [I’m the guy posted the clip](http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/12/kate-bush-gets.html) ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videoclips-with-dancers-dancing-while-lying-down-or-sitting-down/439978/4 "2008-03-04T07:42:18Z")
**minokwat** , that’s just fratboys being silly for a few seconds. I’m looking for real dancing. [QUOTE=gaffa] A classic of the genre: [Kate Bush: December Will Be Magic Again](http://youtube.com/watch?v=pfD7FzcjVyQ&feature=inbox) A wonderfully expressive and evocative piece of dance, and she never gets out of the chair. [/QUOTE] Thanks! That’s what I was looking for. Kate Bush is very good at this; while browsing your link I also found this clip: “Room for the life” which she sings [inside](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9-JzB3zvLA) a “womb” a sort of round chocolate box balanced on its side. I found the clip with the couple dancing lying down on the pavement: it’s "[“Chasing pavements” by Adele.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz7vGW2_5c0) I vaguely remember there also being a clip where U2 singer Bone lies on the ground (fallen from a car?) and is filmed from different angles. I can’t find it though. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videoclips-with-dancers-dancing-while-lying-down-or-sitting-down/439978/5 "2008-03-04T08:45:41Z")
[QUOTE=Maastricht] Thanks! That’s what I was looking for. Kate Bush is very good at this; while browsing your link I also found this clip: “Room for the life” which she sings [inside](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9-JzB3zvLA) a “womb” a sort of round chocolate box balanced on its side. [/QUOTE] Glad to provide! Kate trained in dance and mime after recording demos and being signed, but before recording her first album. She likes [working](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzbw-53g2CU&feature=related) [while](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Rzz-Jlg9o) [seated](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJbBd1QkZEk), and even [in a big, transparent bubble](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqnkxRw3KUk). I can’t find it on YouTube, but Kate filmed [a set of videos](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8440725146233747836) back in 1978 at the then newly opened Haunted Castle at Holland’s Efteling theme park, including [one where she is seated](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8440725146233747836#9m43s). ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videoclips-with-dancers-dancing-while-lying-down-or-sitting-down/439978/6 "2008-03-04T08:57:07Z")
**gaffa** , thanks for the links. I couldn’t help noticing that Kate’s dance in a sparkly skin colored bodysuit has been the direct inspiration for Britney Spears dance, also lying down, in her white sparkly transparent bodysuit in her clip for “Toxic”. And Kate’s dance, in the vid for “Eat the music”, where she’s crushing fruit, has been redone by Madonna. Does anyone perhaps have short clips taken from professional dance performances with dancers moving while seated or on the ground? ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videoclips-with-dancers-dancing-while-lying-down-or-sitting-down/439978/7 "2008-03-04T11:57:59Z")
Wasnt there a Paula Abdul video where she’s barefoot in the grass, lying down, rolling around doing splits and such while singing? ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videoclips-with-dancers-dancing-while-lying-down-or-sitting-down/439978/8 "2018-06-12T08:44:53Z")
I found two more wonderful recent examples: [Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY), and [Ten Million Bycicles in Bejing by Katie Melua.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHQG6-DojVw) Both have women lying in bed/on the ground while travelling long and dreamy distances… ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videoclips-with-dancers-dancing-while-lying-down-or-sitting-down/439978/9 "2018-06-12T13:43:01Z")
In a similar stop-motion vein : [This Is How It Goes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83zC575opm0) : Goldfish ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videoclips-with-dancers-dancing-while-lying-down-or-sitting-down/439978/10 "2018-06-12T14:22:48Z")
Isn’t dancing while seated or lying down called sex? 😉 If so, I think that there are a few videos to be had online.