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My Summer of Love dance video at De Young Museum

What did I get out of the Summer of Love in 1967? Dancing anywhere anytime. Freeform expression. My dyslexia vanished.

So what did I and my partner do at the Summer of Love exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco? Dance!  And yes I was there in the ’60s—a native San Franciscan dancing my way through Golden Gate Park, the Fillmore, Avalon Ballroom, Ocean Beach. Just about everywhere we could wave our arms around, we did!

Jordan, my partner in the video below, danced around Vietnam—with a machine gun instead of a flower. Horrid time in his life but when he returned to the USA  he battled PTSD with dancing and yoga and meditation. And moved to San Francisco… . So here we are 50 years later still bopping about. The exhibit goes till August 20, 2017 so you can trip the lights fantastic and do the hippie dance in the psychedelic black lights, too.

Here are some more over-the-top dance videos you might also enjoy: Elegant Flamenco,  Hip Hop to Bach, Absolute Grace, Dance With Light, Tight Rope Dancer, This Kid Hits Every Beat,  Smokin’ Hot 74-Year-Old Dancer, Dance for Lost Indigenous Women, Haunting Underwater Dance, Sink or Swim, Honky Tonk Dancers are Hot, Laser Dance, Koryak Dance Ensemble from Russia, Graceful Pole Dancer, Stuck in the Airport? Dance!, Divorce Dance, African Tribal Dance Re-Translated, Pas de Deux with a Raven, Lil Buck Dances with Picasso in Paris, Georgian National Ballet.

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  1. Terry J Walker says

    July 2, 2017 at 6:26 pm

    okay, that was totally cool. You still have the moves and Jordan is smooth! I would’ve loved to have seen the ’67 Summer of Love dance video.
    Keep on dancing!

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    • Lisa Alpine says

      July 3, 2017 at 10:59 am

      Aloha Terry—Come visit so we can dance at the de Young and SFMOMA!!!!!

      Reply

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