Diffusée depuis deux semaines sur internet, la vidéo ci-dessus, réalisée par Matt Harding et intitulée Dancing, connaît un succès phénoménal. Le New York Times consacre aujourd'hui cet article à Harding, devenu une célébrité à 31 ans malgré un talent de danseur très limité. J'en cite un extrait dans le texte :
In many ways "Dancing" is an almost perfect piece of Internet art: it's short, pleasingly weird and so minimal in its content that it's open to a multitude of interpretations. It could be a little commercial for one-world feel-goodism. It could be an allegory of American foreign policy: a bumptious foreigner turning up all over the world and answering just to his own inner music. Or it could be about nothing at all - just a guy dancing.
However you interpret it, you can't watch "Dancing" for very long without feeling a little happier. The music (by Gary Schyman, a friend of Mr. Harding's, and set to a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, sung in Bengali by Palbasha Siddique, a 17-year-old native of Bangladesh now living in Minneapolis) is both catchy and haunting. The backgrounds are often quite beautiful. And there is something sweetly touching and uplifting about the spectacle of all these different nationalities, people of almost every age and color, dancing along with an uninhibited doofus.
P.S. : Voici une autre version de la danse, réalisée pour la gomme Stride.
P.P.S. : Le site de Matt : wherethehellismatt.com.