Have you ever stayed awake at night pondering the history of a video you've seen? Have you suffered through years of tortured anguished longing to know the real meaning behind that video?The answer is probably not and you really don't give a shit.Well in that spirit we here at the Thickhanger Studios would like to provide you with a little history behind a video almost everyone has seen. And we would like to do this for the simple reason that you don't give a shit.Almost every internet cruiser has seen the infamous Finnish "Disco Dancing" video. Made in 1979, the video was meant to be a serious instructional video to assist in bringing the Disco era to the people of Finland.Professionally produced with the help of a reknowned and honored dance instructor and using the newest music of the day, the video had the potential to enlighten the Finns about this new dance craze and excite them to get out on the dance floor. Instead the video turned out to be more of an embarassement to the citizens of Finland than it was instructional.When the video was first posted the Finns found themselves defending themselves against many comments that they found shameful. As time went on there were more and more comments from around the World and the video was all over the internet. Yet the good people of Finland were still finding themselves in a defensive mode.But that was then and this is now and today it is a humorous sense of pride for those Finnish folks. Both for those who know how to disco as well as those who don't.Åke Blomqvist has been a highly honored and respected master dance instructor for over forty years. He is a ballroom dance instructor who began his career with the Finnish army. He taught ballroom dancing to the officers in case they were invited to an important gala or ball and did not have a date that they would be able to dance with any woman who had an empty dance card. His teaching methods were so precise and disiplined that the Finnish army, under the command of General Gustav Hagglund, made it a requirement for all of their cadets to take several courses from Mr. Blomqvist.After his career with the Finnish army he opened his own dance school and has taught millions of people all over the World how to ballroom dance.In 1979 he was approached by a local television station and asked if he might be willing to make a brief instructional video on Disco dancing. He said yes. But the slight glich was that Ake had never even heard of disco prior to the request and was unfamiliar with its style of dance. And he only had two days before the taping of the show. So he researched and practiced as much as he could in two days and the results are what is seen in the now famous viral video.The song at the end of the video is called Moskau by Dschinghis Khan. Dschinghis Khan was a German pop band, created in 1979 to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest. While the group broke up in the mid-1980s, the video for “Moskau” was a part of the show “Disco” on ZDF.en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tanssikoulublomqvist.fi%2F