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Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social · 9h

Join our very own Dancing Dead Girls Lauren, Mary, Kaja and Karen as they take us through all things gothic ballet and body horror.

Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social · 9h

Day 10 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse and for your Friday night feast we bring you a colab between 2/3 of Danse Macabre and The Ghoul Guides Association youtu.be/R6n5TGVfb6o?...

Gothic Dance | Ghoul Guides Association

YouTube video by The Ghoul Guides

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Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social · 1d

The heartbeat rhythm of the song lends itself well to the zombie like choreography that animates the dancers in both examples, and a tune to add to the Halloween playlist!

Still from Royal Dance performance, where the central dancer holds a bloody heart aloft in a spotlight, as the ensemble looks up at it

Still from Royal Dance performance holding a bloody heart aloft with the ensemble gyrating around the central spotlighed dancer

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Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social · 1d

Roísín Murphy (also known as one half of pop duo Moloko) performs this song on stage with halting staggering movements. The line "unzip my body, take my heart out" was deliciously interpreted by Royal Dance in 2024 (choreo by Arita Kukovasa)

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Rosin Murphy - Ramalama (Bang Bang) - Halloween dance

YouTube video by Royal Dance

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Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social · 1d

Choreographed by Wade Robson (of Britney and N*Sync fame), the Dance Hall-esque costumes and exaggerated zombified movements earned him a prime time Emmy win for Outstanding Choreography in 2007. The girls move like the living dead, but done with style

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Top 10 | Wade Robson - Pop-Jazz - Ramalama (Bang Bang) | SYTYCD S2 [HD]

YouTube video by SYTYCD Favorite Performances

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Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social · 1d

Day 9 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse, and our dancing dead girls are stitching a seam across the eye. Season 2 of So You Think You Can Dance in 2006 gave us a zombie group number to Ramalama (Bang Bang) by Roísín Murphy

Still of the female dancers from season two of So You Think You Can Dance, dressed in zombie makeup and dance hall style costumes

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Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social · 2d

It ends in tragedy, as it so often does, as the poet lies stabbed and unconscious by the end of the ballet. Though only to be welcomed to the land of dreamers by his love. It can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKXN...

La Sonnambula

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Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social · 2d

A love story between a poet and sleepwalker, the narrative blurs the line between sleep and death, as the sonnambula appears ghost-like in a Gothic white dress.

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Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social · 2d

Day 8 of #31DaysofMacabreDanse and we wonder 'to sleep, perchance to dream' (Hamlet, 3:1) with 'La Sonnambula'. Premiering in 1946, at the City Center of Music and Drama, New York, it was created by George Balanchine.

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 4d

Alice in Wonderland (Jonathan Miller, 1966), my favourite adaptation.

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 3d

I'm delighted to be delivering a talk on 23 Oct 2025 btwn 5–6.30pm (BST) for @gothicauob.bsky.social

My talk is titled: ‘Battling Satan in Your Underpants: Censoring Capcom’s Ghosts ‘n Goblins Videogame during the Age of American Satanic Panic’

Details 👇
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Session Thirty Seven: Video Game Gothic

We are especially excited to announce that our first Gothica session of the 2025/26 academic year will be Video Game Gothic with our special guest speaker Dr Efram Sera-Shriar on Zoom on Thursday 2…

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 3d

Register & sign up below for 2 exciting #Halloween season #Gothic events! ⬇️🎃

Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 9d

The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️

👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.

🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

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Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social · 3d

You can fine a recording of the full production here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsw8...

La Bayadère

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Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social · 3d

A tragedy, the narrative follows the titular bayadère, or temple dancer, Nikiya who is killed by snake in an act of revenge by a jealous love rival. She dances in the Kingdom of the Shades surrounded by other spirits, where she is reunited with her lover, the warrior Solor.

The Kingdom of the Shades taken from Petipa's final revival in 1900.

The Kingdom of the Shades from Rudolf Nureyev's 1991 production, when he was artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet. It was his last production before he died of HIV/AIDS.

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Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social · 3d

Day 7 of #31DaysofMacabreDanse and we move to the past once more with 'La Bayadère' (1877). Consisting of four acts and seven tableaux, the original choreography was by Marius Petipa, music by Ludwig Minky and libretto by Sergei Khudekov.

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Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social · 4d

In July 1518, Frau Toffea started dancing uncontrollably, and the plague spread. At its peak, it has been recorded that 500 people were dancing (though hard to verify). Later accounts put the death toll as around 15 people per day, caused by exhaustion, heart attacks and strokes.

Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social · 4d

Day 6 of #31DaysofMacabreDanse and today we are looking at Frau Troffea, reputedly the first recorded victim of the 1518 dancing plague that started in Strasburg, Alsace.
Image: Engraving, Hendrik Hondius, based on the work of Pieter Brueghel.

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 5d

I ended up spending longer in Bologna than expected this week, and this was one of the unexpected delights of that extra time. It’s an early sixteenth century tondelli - round stained glass window - showing the Triumph of Death, made in the German regions, and based on an engraving by Albrecht Dürer

a portion of stained glass showing a skeletal figure in a winding sheet flying in the air and holding a scroll

À différent portion of the same stained glass showing a skeletal figure wrapped in a sheet brandishing an arrow and riding into a crowd.

The full round stained glass showing the precocious two figures with Germanic text rubbing around the outside. The colour palette is yellow and brown

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Lynn Huggins-Cooper @hugginscooper.bsky.social · Feb 15

Best way to spend Saturday - so much gothic delight in one place! Just watched a great talk by @macabredanse.bsky.social 's Kate Harvey and a brilliant writing workshop with @icysedgwick.bsky.social gave me ideas for my YA :) Makes my dark little gothic heart happy.

#WritingHorror #HorrorStudies

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · Feb 12

This weekend, Romancing the Gothic is hosting an online charity teachathon with 13 classes and workshops on history, literature and film

Check it out

Come join us!

Recorded so if you miss, you don't miss out.

You can pick and mix what you join us for.

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Goths for Breakfast

An online days of Gothic and horror classes and workshops to support the charity Magic Breakfast

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Núria Molines-Galarza @nuriamolines.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thrilled to be presenting my research on (marine) hauntology and 'Rebecca' (Du Maurier) at the upcoming Unquiet Shores Conference in Edinburgh Napier, organised by @hauntedshores.bsky.social and @macabredanse.bsky.social.

Check out the programme: tinyurl.com/5yf38hws

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3rd DRAFT PROGRAMME (updated 13 May 2025) Wednesday 18th June Bus departs Bainfield:0930 Registration and coffee: 10.00 (main foyer) Playing in Room 1/17 (Riady) 1000-1530: Sarah Robyn Farrell, Echoe...

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Recs be havin' ya @recs-be.bsky.social · Jun 16

@hauntedshores.bsky.social @macabredanse.bsky.social been doing final tech check for remote attendance, excited for Wednesday morning. Got my coffee machine ready! #GothicStudiesNerd

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Recs be havin' ya @recs-be.bsky.social · Jun 18

Day 1 of #unquietshores conference is now underway. In session 1 - echoes from antiquity (parallel sessions) I've been learning about the death of Pan in literature around the 1910 period. #gothicConference @hauntedshores.bsky.social @macabredanse.bsky.social

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Recs be havin' ya @recs-be.bsky.social · Jun 18

Luna (currently cat sitting) is listening quietly to Veres Ottilia presenting "nobody underneath a big wave: sedimentary remnants in Alice Oswald's Nobody: a hymn to the sea" #unquietshores session 1a @hauntedshores.bsky.social @macabredanse.bsky.social

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Recs be havin' ya @recs-be.bsky.social · Jun 20

That's it, no more #unquietshores #unquietshores2025 posting from me, thanks 2everyone involved from @hauntedshores.bsky.social @macabredanse.bsky.social +uni of Edinburgh. Hopefully didn't annoy everyone with my tangents...Counting the appearances of the god Pan (4!) Or love for Black Phillip.🐐

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Amy Beddows @amybeddows.bsky.social · Jun 20

Had an absolute blast at @hauntedshores.bsky.social and @macabredanse.bsky.social wonderful 'Unquiet Shores' conference. I got to speak on trauma, water, and sound in horror film, with a very generous reception to my (typical) insistence on inserting trauma and gender into EVERYTHING. Cheers!

a black and white photo of a woman holding another woman 's head in a dark room .

Alt: a black and white photo of a woman holding another woman's head in a dark room (from the J-horror film, Ju-On).

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