January 2019: Video of "Don't Wanna Be a Death Eater"

Post date: Jan 2, 2019 9:26:06 PM

I am thrilled to report that the revival of the Dancing Death Eaters is going better than I could have hoped, as our ranks grow with fun and enthusiastic geeks who'll become dancers. In fact, I believe we currently have more people at lessons than we've had since February 2010. We've just finished revisiting the Death Eater Tango, and even updating it a little. Later this month, we will begin work on a brand-new dance number - as voted on by Twitter, we will be dancing to My Obsession by the Parselmouths.

The revival of the DDEs has rekindled my enthusiasm for editing videos of our dancing - one of the tasks requiring endless patience that was always going to be done "later when I had time." On Halloween, I released the first four of our Halloween dance videos from 2011/2012 (which were originally being hoarded for our next DVD). Find those costumed danced on our Dance Videos page.

Much more significantly, on the last day of 2018, I completed a very important task: crafting the very first video of the DDEs' fourteenth and final dance of the First Era, Don't Wanna Be a Death Eater by the Brothers Black. This was by far the most ambitious dance routine the DDEs ever did... upon viewing the footage to edit the video, I was blown away at the difficulty of the routine. It's amazing to think we'd accomplished that. It has the core four in it, and really serves to showcase Sheila and me in the latter half when it's just us spinning like dervishes through the dance studio.

This was only performed live once, at Avada KedavRock! 2014, and so no video existed of it online until this very moment. It's an immense feeling of pride and relief to now have all fourteen of our dances immortalized for the world to see. Here's looking to lots more excitement in 2019!