I don’t know how many of you guys know, but Ryan Heffington, creator of the movements in The OA, has been having online dance classes almost every day live on his Instagram. It’s totally free but if you want to donate to his dance studio you can. He’s trying to help out his employees who are all obviously out of work for a while which is so great of him. I joined in the dancing today and my mood is the best its been in a week. It was honestly therapeutic, as many of us have found the movements to be. And SO much fun. He’s an amazing dude who really gets how much we all need to come together right now in whatever way possible. There were 4,000 of us today! He’s taking a break tomorrow but I know he’s doing another one on Tuesday at 10 AM (Pacific time).
I was thinking, if you join in, it wouldn’t hurt to maybe comment in the feed how much you love his work on The OA. I think if people see that repeated a few times it might get them curious and make them want to check out the show. This is not a good time to bomb him with a bunch of #savetheoa comments. I think what he’s doing is beautiful and I don’t want to interfere with that and the whole purpose of this thing. But just saying like, “hey, the movements on The OA are doooope 🤙” or whatever is probably cool.
Mostly I just wanted to tell all of you about this because it helped me so much today and I know these are tough times, so I wanted to help spread the love and hope that he is trying to spread. Hope you all join on Tuesday! ❤️
I was watching The Kid Who Would Be King tonight and Merlin to do his magic, does complicated hand gestures similar to what’s on the OA. Not as elegant or complex, but the minute I saw them it was the first thing I thought of.
He isn’t listed on the credits or on his IMDB profile. Someone would have had to choreograph those movements, so wondering if this was an uncredited role of his (there were no choreographed credits that I could see)?
Which also got me to thinking at the end of part 2 in the studio. Ryan would have had to be there teaching the actors the movements, so would or should Ryan be a principle character for part 3? He after all “invented them”. Just a little late night musings.
Much thanks to u/_wordslinger for his OP which prompted u/HarryPouri to post a link to an in-depth interview with Ryan Heffington, the choreographer who worked with Brit & Zal to formulate the movements. The more I practice, the more I try to attain that special yoga/martial-art-like discipline through them, the closer I get to the feelings which gave birth to them—the more I feel inspired and motivated that this is bigger than us, bigger than Netflix, bigger than money. In a sense, Netflix bit off more than they could chew with this. The movements—no, not just that...the entire series! is such an unadulterated, radical art form. You can only comprehend it in the purest way possible when you get the full sense of what Ryan was saying in that interview. I believe this is what Brit was talking about when they got over the awkwardness, the bodily soreness after rehearsing it so many times. She said something started to happen. And at the heart of it is all the fuel/motivation/inspiration you need to #SaveTheOA!!!
I thought it might have been my forked brain when I spotted some movements in the choreography… Ryan Heffington is the choreographer!!
A musical, made into a movie for Netflix, about a writer, writing a musical set in the future, facing multiple deadlines in life and the industry.
I always thought LMM’s industry access to multiple platforms might be similar to B and Z’s ‘deal’ when they pitched The OA to every streaming service. He has content on Disney+, FX (Fosse/Verdon), HBO (Heights and His Dark Materials), and now Netflix with this one.
I need to know what LMM knows about The OA and when did he know it?!👀👀
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
They were cooked in Greece.
We know the movements are inspired by nature, as explained by the incredible choreographer responsible for their creation, Ryan Heffington.
The First Movement, Prairie/OA's movement, is quite obviously inspired by the bird she swallowed, the fingers representing flapping of wings and perhaps the "spitting out" of the hand from the mouth represents a mother bird regurgitating her food into the mouth of the baby bird, and the subsequent extension of the arm upwards in a diagonal could be said baby bird flying the coop to start a new life. A new cycle.
Would anybody like to try and help me analyse the Second Movement, Homer's, and how it might relate to the Sea Anemone he swallowed? There's a moment (when Homer talks about his fingers breaking and hanging) where the hands appear as the tentacles of the Anemone. When we look at the life cycle of these creatures, the mechanics of the movement seem to become more clear...
Taken from the Sea Anemone wiki page:
"In sexual reproduction, males may release sperm to stimulate females to release eggs, and fertilization occurs, either internally in the gastrovascular cavity or in the water column. The eggs and sperm, or the larvae, are ejected through the mouth [think outstretched arms with wiggly fingers that resemble flagella]. In many species the eggs and sperm rise to the surface where fertilisation occurs." [think bringing the hands to the head]
Sea anemones have great powers of regeneration and can reproduce asexually, by budding, fragmentation, or by longitudinal or transverse binary fission. Some species such as certain Anthopleura divide longitudinally, pulling themselves apart [pulling apart of the hands from the heart centre], resulting in groups of individuals with identical colouring and markings. Transverse fission is less common, but occurs in Anthopleura stellula and Gonactinia prolifera, with a rudimentary band of tentacles appearing halfway up the column before it splits horizontally. [splitting the tentacle-finger position apart]
We also know that Evelyn's Movement, The Fifth, is quite clearly inspired by the white moth that she swallowed [think antennae-fingers extending over closed eyes and the final inward breath, representing swallowing the moth itself]
I think perhaps the actual choreography of the Third Movement, Scott's movement, will give clues as to the animal that Scott had to swallow/interact with (perhaps given to him by BBA), which could provide a metaphorical insight into t
... keep reading on reddit ➡but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
Pilot on me!!
Anybody else see Ryan talk about creating The OA movements today during the Q&A after his live dance class? Nice work OA fam! I hope all 5,000 of the people who joined today check out the show. We’re gonna get it back, I know it. And if you haven’t joined in on his live Instagram dance classes you are missing out. It’s so therapeutic and fun. Maybe he’ll wind up doing the movements for one of them! Fingers crossed!
