Dancemat trails
A few days ago, I heard part of a song in a video trailer for a movie called Gaudi Afternoon. I knew I had heard the song before, but where? Eventually, some unknown part of my brain came up with a strange connection: it turned out to be the "Mucho Mambo Sway", which is one of the songs featured on the Playstation 2 dancemat "game" Dancing Stage Euromix. I have been dancing it quite a few times, competing against Susana and Jesper on who could do the most correct and precise moves on the mat following the steps presented on the screen while the song played. I found a sample of the song online, and when I played it on the stereo here at home, my feet almost automatically started doing the moves from the game, which somehow felt pretty weird repeating _without_ the dancemat. I wonder whether there are discos in Japan where the pro dancemat gamers actually dance the dances from the game without the mat, moves learned "by heart" by their feet???
# posted by Lisbeth at: 21:22