#dancing contest

[tina-aumont]

Candid photo of Janet Leigh, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball and Maria Montez grouped together at a dance contest at Ciro's in Hollywood in 1950. They are seen chatting while waiting to take their turn on the dance floor.

From worthpoint.

Very special thanks to @74paris for sharing!

[lucika-tran]

Shadow of the Erdtree My entry for the DLC contest on Twitter I was rushing this so bad, and everything is too difficult to draw. But, I am happy that I finished this and shared it with other artists to celebrate the DLC

[scaredforboomboom]

joost klein the type of mfer that will absolutely steal your man at the club holy shit ✨✨✨✨✨

[cosmic-aquamarine-art]

ok but these two together 🟢⭐️🟢

[disappointeddyke]

gayest thing i’ve done this month is watch live wrestling

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Lee Moates and Tonita Malau show their winning dance style during a Lindy contest on the block-long floor of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom on April 24, 1953.

Photo: Hans Von Nolde for the Associated Press via the Deseret News

[onomatopoeicaristophanes]

Gonna tell my kids these were the Jonas Brothers

[radley-writes]

I don't understand people who say things like 'but it doesn't matter if we don't pay artists/writers for their labour, or use free AI programs to replace artists/writers to improve our profits, because in a perfect world everyone would have UBI so it wouldn't matter xxx'

like. yes. but until we reach that perfect world, artists and writers need to eat?

why are you promoting AI replacement of creative people instead of working towards UBI? Until we have UBI, supporting generative AI in the creative field is no different to supporting supermarkets laying off all their till staff to turn to self-check out, or supporting factories who shut down and move overseas to exploit workers in countries with fewer human rights legislations?

Yes, in a perfect world, everyone would receive UBI. Therefore, people across the globe couldn't be exploited by corporations, and artists could create for the joy of it, in whatever way we desire - including with AI!

But we do not live in that perfect world.

Do you seriously expect this move towards generative AI to encourage people to support UBI, as opposed to people being forced into jobs they hate to make ends meet or no longer being able to support themselves financially?

Especially all the disabled people who make a living creating art and writing/editing, because that is, in fact, a career that is often far more available to disabled folks than a regular 9-5 or a retail job where you're expected to be on your feet all day (miss my disabled ass with the 'anti-AI = ableism' stance lmao).

This is not going to create your army of revolutionaries. This is just going to result in more independent creators being crushed under the boot heel of capitalism, as anyone who would've hired them flocks instead to the free alternative, and they're forced back into an incredibly exploitative labour market.

I agree that generative AI by itself is just a tool and is not inherently a problem.

But it is being abused, in ways that hurt creators.

If you support generative AI... what are you doing about that?

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My friends and I won a trivia contest so we started dancing. But there was a new dance move called the “snaggit” where you throw your partner across the room. So my friend threw me across the room and I got brain damage.

[tomhardymyking]

There are five days left until the 𝑽𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒎: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 Global Fan Art Contest ends 🎨! For more info, link in bio ❗

I love that we are in this time, it means that there is nothing left to watch a new cinematic adventure of 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺 and 𝗘𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸 🥹💓

The contest is one they organise before the premiere of a new 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺 film, to win money and have their art promoted on their social networks 🙌🏻 They will also serve to promote the film 💯

This photo is from 2018's and they took this one with the winners 😍💖 and they also organised one in 2021 but there was no photo like this 👀

Will this year be like 2018 or 2021 🤔?

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¡Quedan cinco días para que acabe el Concurso Mundial de Artes Fan de 𝑽𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒎: 𝑬𝒍 Ú𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒐 𝑩𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒆 🎨! Para más información, enlace de mi biografía ❗

Me encanta que estemos en esta época, significa que ya no queda nada para ver una nueva aventura cinematográfica de 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺 y 𝗘𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸 🥹💓

El concurso es uno que organizan antes del estreno de una película nueva de 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺, para ganar un dinero y su arte ser promocionado en sus redes sociales 🙌🏻 También servirán para promocionar la película 💯

Esta foto es del de 2018 y ellos se hicieron ésta con los ganadores 😍💖 y también organizaron uno para 2021 pero no hubo foto como ésta 👀

¿Este año será como 2018 o como 2021 🤔?

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[bughead-in-the-comics]

From Dancing Paws, Betty #146 (2005).

[kay-kay-is-kray-kray]

The absolute state of things for Deuce Spade right now is sending me. Deuce is just living his best life.

[magnusbae]

Labyrinth of Evil by James Luceno

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Competitors in a dance marathon at Madison Square Garden, June 11, 1928. Victor Tomie carries his partner, Della Keenes's shoes while she dances shoeless.

The formal idea of a dance marathon emerged in the early 1920s, after a New York dance instructor named Alma Cummings decided to see if she could achieve the world record for longest continuous dance. According to a report in the News-Journal of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Cummings started just before seven o’clock in the evening on March 31, 1923, and danced the waltz, foxtrot, and one-step for twenty-seven hours straight, fueled by snacks of fruit, nuts, and near-beer, and exhausting six male partners in the process. Her achievement inspired copycats and competitors, and before long, promoters started offering group dance marathons that hybridized sports, social dancing, vaudeville, and nightlife as a form of rivalry and entertainment.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America Text: Betsy Golden Kellem, JSTOR.org