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somethingspecial) wrote2011-10-17 07:45 pm
somethingspecial) wrote2011-10-17 07:45 pm
Entry tags:
- a teensy bit selfish,
- anna: my guardian angel,
- caution: diva at work,
- caution: emotions run high,
- i don't own emotion i rent,
- it's lonely at the top,
- little mermaid complex,
- missing the people who leave us,
- music is the universal language,
- my heart is too big for this,
- practice makes perfect,
- the king of pop,
- this place is fucked up,
- total ecplise of the heart
44 [Accidental Video]
[She's died. She's terrified of wandering Adstringendum alone and can't work up the nerve to go to her theatre after what happened there. She has yet to figure out what her death price is. Anna is gone from Adstringendum. And Rachel, who spends every waking moment of her time singing whenever things gets too much, isn't allowed to sing.
Luckily, she can dance. Which is exactly what she is doing, when the feed clicks on -- Rachel is at the dojo, in a corner of it, dressed in exercise clothing, sweating profusely as the music to one of the only working casettes she has working blasts out of the old boombox she has rigged into working. The choreography Rachel is using is directly from the original video and she is putting everything she has into replicating one of the most famous pieces of dancing in the history of music. After all, this is reportedly the best album of all time -- Rachel should do it justice.
But when she spins, she spins a little too quickly, and her feet catch together and, to her horror, Rachel falls squarely, yelping as she lands on her behind. She's still for a moment -- and the Van Halen solo kicks in -- and suddenly, Rachel darts to her feet and moves to a cloth dummy in the corner, and she begins punching it. As hard as she can, repeatedly, and she nearly knocks it over in her rush to pulverize the living hell out of the sparring dummy, perfectly in time to the bass of Michael Jackson's hit, before she punches it one last final time to send it to the floor with a dusty crash and a cough. But that isn't enough -- she kicks it hard enough to send it rolling into the wall, which shakes the PCD into shutting off.]
Luckily, she can dance. Which is exactly what she is doing, when the feed clicks on -- Rachel is at the dojo, in a corner of it, dressed in exercise clothing, sweating profusely as the music to one of the only working casettes she has working blasts out of the old boombox she has rigged into working. The choreography Rachel is using is directly from the original video and she is putting everything she has into replicating one of the most famous pieces of dancing in the history of music. After all, this is reportedly the best album of all time -- Rachel should do it justice.
But when she spins, she spins a little too quickly, and her feet catch together and, to her horror, Rachel falls squarely, yelping as she lands on her behind. She's still for a moment -- and the Van Halen solo kicks in -- and suddenly, Rachel darts to her feet and moves to a cloth dummy in the corner, and she begins punching it. As hard as she can, repeatedly, and she nearly knocks it over in her rush to pulverize the living hell out of the sparring dummy, perfectly in time to the bass of Michael Jackson's hit, before she punches it one last final time to send it to the floor with a dusty crash and a cough. But that isn't enough -- she kicks it hard enough to send it rolling into the wall, which shakes the PCD into shutting off.]
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Watch.
[It's quiet, and Rachel rolls her ankles quickly before turning to her side. She stands on her toes for a split second before walking -- no, gliding -- backwards, her shoes sliding across the wood. It isn't perfectly seamless -- Rachel is far too tired for that -- but it's pretty good all the same. At the end of the moonwalk, Rachel spins -- and this time, she doesn't fall -- and shakes out her legs again.]
-- he would have done it much better.
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That was well done, Rachel, thank you for showing me. The step is most graceful. Perhaps he would have done it better, but if he was its originator and a maestro of dance, that would be expected. You did the step very well to my eye.
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Thank you, Juliet.
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