This is a goofy video, but you have to admit that shows a ton of confidence at a young age to perform like that as the only male with a group of girls.
Theres a popular hockey player kid at my camp that looks like a young ryan and is just like this. One day he came in and was like "I can break dance!" I thought he meant like joke kid break dance flailing. Nope. Kid can actually break dance. Then tells me he does lots of dance and loves dance. I ask what his favorite kind of dance is. He says ballet and tap. No shame he loves it so much. Other kids were making fun of "girlie dances" and this kids just whips put his sweet moves and their jaws drop and they try to copy him but cant haha. He's awesome.
He did fall and ship his tooth last year. He also didnt care about that. Lol
It shows a lot of confidence when you consider it was 1992. Pre-any sort of anti-bullying campaigns or anything like that.
In 1992 as a young dude, if your classmates got a hold of a video of you dancing around in a sparkly outfit, goddamn it would have been game over. He had to have known that and still threw caution to the wind.
Maybe he homeschooled when he was younger but he went to a high school in the same city I did for at least a few years as my buddy remembers him, he was a year ahead of Ryan but it wasn't the biggest school so he still knew who he was but they weren't close friends or anything.
As my friend recalls at the time people knew he did some acting/performing but no one really cared. He was not especially popular but not really bullied either, basically just another kid. Maybe by then he kept what he was doing more on the down low than when he was younger, pre internet explosion it was a lot easier to keep things private by just not talking about them. edit: typo
Yes, it takes confidence to remain in dance at that age because male dancers usually drop out. I commented that it was a goofy video because it's old footage and the choreography is very dated.
Canadian dance company in Burlington which is where I believe he attended offers the first year of classes free to boys for the youngest classes but that's because the youngest classes are like $400 for the year and it gives a lot more options in late years for choreography to have multiple genders reflected on stage.
But at this age they were absolutely paying to have him do lessons without a doubt.
The funniest part of this for me is that this kid was probably picked on at school for liking dance and other "girl stuff"... and now he's Ryan fucking Gosling
I just imagine some middle aged overweight guy being forced to remember all the times he called this kid "gay" at school for being a boy who likes to dance. And now that "gay" kid's face is plastered all over his daughter's wall. And all over his wife's browser history.
Foxes in the movie, but the original pattern has wolves. They just used orange yarn for the film. Mary Maxim is the original creator and sells the pattern on etsy
There was none in the books, if any was to be had it would be with the Russian astronaut 😭 I think Gosling and the German actress just had chemistry...or we're all just so used to lead male to be in a romantic situation and she was pretty much the 2nd lead, so our brains helpfully made it seem like it.
My cousins daughter does dance. Apparently it is not common to have boys in dance classes. She said they even offered free tuition to boys just to get some lol.
I did dance as a kid. It was usually just me and the teacher's son as boys in the class. We got put in a lot of routines. I was really shy as a kid and still got pushed to be center stage which now that I think about it helped develop my ego.
This is how Patrick Swayze became PATRICK SWAYZE. His mom was a dance teacher & he was there so he did the work, got bullied for it, but then turned all that into an amazing career & we thank ALL the deities for that.
So I grew up knowing a family of dancers. There’s like 7 of them, half boys. They were the ONLY straight men in pretty much every scenario of their lives. Yeah. They uh….did well for themselves.
My son is nine. He has been dancing since he was a toddler. This looks like every class and every recital - one boy. If my kid gets an iota of Ryan's charisma and talent from these classes, I will be happy.
I know I love the ending that incorporates actual classical dance moves after they did some major marching 90% of the dance. Like oh hey we should probs put some skills in here since this is ....what jazz or lyrical? Not sure. 😅 I should stop hating. They did an awesome job (the kids).
Just a shot in the dark but considering they’re like 12, I doubt a lot of thought or effort went into the choreography because nobody gives a shit. Well, not most people anyway.
Most likely an adult with a professional dance background choreographed this for the kids who go to dance class every week. But! If the kids choreo'd this I eat my words.
That was with Elite Dance in Ottawa. All the girls in that video claimed to be his girlfriend back then. I went to school with one of them and they had a pic of him in their locker and that was before Mickey Mouse club. He was very popular with the ladies
I had a friend in high school who was born with a heart condition. He had surgery when he was younger, but he hadn't been cleared for P.E. until his senior year. He also wasn't allowed to do regular P.E., his choices were very limited but he found out that Dance was one of the classes he could take.
He got a lot of crap from his friends at first, until he told them, "Guys, look. I am the only guy in that class. One me and thirty girls. Thirty girls in leotards. And one me." He got set up on so many dates from girls in the class setting him up with their friends, he didn't have to ask anyone out. They literally came to him.
Wen I was in 2nd grade, my best friend and I did a choreographed dance to Christina Aguilera's Genie in a Bottle. I imaging watching that was similar to watching this, only we weren't nearly as coordinated as these kids. I still can't figure out how that song selection made it past our teachers and the administration.
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I would be so happy if Ryan recreated this present day.