A new feature of this blog is that each week I am going to point you toward something delicious.  This week it is the strandbeest of Dutch artist Theo Jansen.  Many of you probably know about him, but when I saw this I thought, “This is a different kind of horse!”  A windhorse.  And of course I wanted to dance with it.

The beest has a sophisticated anatomy with muscles and even a stomach, with names like Animaris Percipiere!  There is even a rhinoceros beest.

What I love about horse dancing is that it is unpredictable.  I imagine that the strandbeest on a good windy day would give us a lot of improvisation opportunities.  And that a group of about 20 dancers would create a pretty interesting beest themselves!

Get the picture?

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