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From: td@alice.UUCP (Tom Duff)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: What is David Byrne doing?
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Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 13:28:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 13:28:58 1985
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>	Whenever I have seen The Talking Heads performing 'Once in a
>Lifetime', David Byrne makes a chopping motion along his right forearm
>with his left hand. Is this geture supposed to be significant of something?
>Where did he get it?
a

The video for this composition was choreographed by Toni Basil, who also
worked on George Lucas's American Graffiti, and did a video of her own
called (I believe) `Hey Mickey.'  Most of the dance elements in this
piece are drawn from African or South American aboriginal dances.

Presumably either Byrne or Basil is responsible for borrowing this
bit of choreography.