And then, in the third race at Santa Anita on Thursday, he was unseated in the backstretch, when Square Dancer clipped heels and went down.
The police went after the Happy dancers, whose clip had been drawing attention on YouTube for a month, just three days after Rouhani demanded Iran abandon its paranoid digital censorship and embrace the internet.
I can't envisage how this style will translate to the stage when NextLevel Squad come to London on 4 May, as in the clip the dancers are confined to such a small space.
Video footage has now surfaced of Kushnir hosting a segment featuring three Chippendales dancers and, as the clip shows, she looks pretty happy about it.
He seemed to have been hired more as featured entertainer than host; he starred in another dance number featuring the "Emmy Gold Dancers" (who knew? ) and in a long, pre-taped clip interviewing the dancers and choreographers, who then danced interpretations of various nominated shows as an introduction to the outstanding choreography (again, who knew?) category.
He and his dancers watched video clips of dabke, and married what they found there with contemporary movement; the result was not so much the formation of a hybrid language as the incorporation of the looseness and athleticism of dabke.
(Stephen Holden) * 'BALLETS RUSSES' (No rating, 118 minutes) This documentary, combining the reminiscences of retired dancers with archival clips of their work, tells the story of two rival companies that shaped ballet in the mid-20th century.
McNamara's cast of thirty-one professional dancers selected the clips, and will reënact scenes from sources as diverse as George Balanchine, "West Side Story," Janet Jackson, and an anonymous amateur busting out K-pop moves with the ferocity of a soldier.
Méliès shows him a film clip of the dancer Lea de Castro Saffron Burrowss), who becomes Klimt's muse and possibly his lover.
Michael Jackson: Best Dance Moves 1958-2009 Let's not forget that the King of Pop was also a gobsmacking dancer: among the countless MJ clips storming the YouTube charts, this medley collected from live shows and videos shows the world's best rug-cutter doing his inimitable thing.
