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My good mate Harry found this video on Random Good Stuff. I like the idea of proving that anybody can dance, and I also like that it can be see as continuing a tradition that is probably almost totally forgotten (except by my vaguely). During the early days of the Russian revolution artists, especially those previously linked to Futurism, tried out all kinds of amazing things to push artistic boundaries. Given the fascination those guys had for industrialisation, one then famous composer wrote a symphony for sirens and other factory elements (can’t remember, maybe chimneys and/or cranes) and he conducted it from some lofty point above a factory. I wonder whether he would have shared some artistic passions with the choreographer of the excavator ballet …

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