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Posted on Dece...Leonard Cohen’s Onstage Dance Moves<br />Posted on December 2, 2012 by DrHGuy | 2 Comments <br /><br /><br />Montreal Gazette Proposes, DrHGuy Discloses<br />In spite of his long-undeserved reputation as the doyen of depression, Leonard Cohen is, in fact, something of a song and dance man. Performing before 12,600 devoted fans at the Bell Centre Wednesday night, Montreal’s favourite son worked his three default moves – the crouch, the jaunty two-step and the full kneel in soulful supplication – with good-natured grace. Watching the 78-year-old singer-songwriter and poet tucking into his formidable repertoire with such glee, it was hard to imagine anything quite as life-affirming. [emphasis mine]<br /><br /><br />Opening lines of Bernard Perusse’s Concert Review: Leonard Cohen at the Bell Centre; Nov. 28, 2012 (The Montreal Gazette, Nov 29, 2012).<br /><br />Ongoing readers will perhaps recognize something familiar about the notion of Cohen’s ” three default moves – the crouch, the jaunty two-step and the full kneel in soulful supplication” since these have been discussed in some detail in previous Heck Of A Guy posts. The following content is from this site’s archives.<br /><br />The Crouch<br />From Crouching Cohen, Hidden Icon: (posted July 22, 2012):<br /><br /><br /><br />The Cohen Crouch In Posed Photos<br />When I recently posted the above photo at The Inexplicable Leonard Cohen, I rhetorically asked, “Is there any other icon who could look cool in this pose?” While I haven’t come up with another icon with that capacity, I did recall that this was not the only photo of the ever more inexplicable Leonard Cohen himself assuming a similar posture.1 (click on thumbnails to enlarge image)<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br />xx<br /><br />The Cohen Crouch In Performance Photos<br />The true epiphany, however, was the realization that these crouches were precursors of the moves Leonard Cohen performed onstage during the 2008-2010 World Tour. (click on thumbnails to enlarge image)<br /><br /> <br /><br /> xx<br /><br /><br />The Jaunty Two-Step<br />While I can’t be certain, I suspect that Mr Perusse’s “jaunty two-step” refers to the move known in these parts as “white man dancing,” which has been covered here many times, including According To Leonard Cohen, The Future Has White Folks Dancing (posted February 4, 2009):2<br /><br /><br /><br />White Man Dancing<br />There’ll be the breaking of the ancient<br />western code<br />Your private life will suddenly explode<br />There’ll be phantoms<br />There’ll be fires on the road<br />and the white man dancing<br />You’ll see a woman<br />hanging upside down<br />her features covered by her fallen gown<br />and all the lousy little poets<br />coming round<br />tryin’ to sound like Charlie Manson<br />and the white man dancin’<br />~From “The Future” by Leonard Cohen<br /><br />The concerts of the Leonard Cohen World Tour have featured, as noted in a previous post, Cohen running, skipping, and performing “high kicks.”<br /><br />As it turns out, he has also taken to illustrating the “white man dancing” lyrics of “The Future,” as demonstrated in the videos below.3<br /><br />In the first part of the tour, the dance was a measured shuffle, carefully executed.<br /><br />Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (May 23, 2008)<br /><br /><br /><br />Sometime during the next two months, the dance became more adventuresome.<br /><br />Leonard Cohen – The Future – Lisboa (July 19, 2008)<br /><br /><br /><br /> The Full Kneel<br />Well, we like to call it the “Full Cohen Kneel,” but that would be splitting hairs. Regardless, three years ago, Heck Of A Guy was posting about someone else imitating the already established Full Cohen Kneel: Dino Soldo Executes Full Cohen Kneel At Leonard Cohen San Jose Concert (posted Nov 15, 2009):<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-949421001644904537.post-21725685703691628972014-11-17T18:05:32.147-08:002014-11-17T18:05:32.147-08:00leonard-cohens-onstage-dance-moves/
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