Patent ID: 7517219

Claim:
A method of creating a video dance routine, including steps of: providing a dance routine with music, involving at least one dancer, physically restraining a positioning of the at least one dancer's head with a fixture and helmet worn by said dancer so that the at least one dancer's head remains substantially in a fixed position during the performance of the dance routine, wherein said fixture includes a pair of spaced stanchions for supporting a crossbar and a support which extends from the crossbar on which said helmet is attached, providing a video of the dance routine, with the music, showing a dancer's body but not the dancer's head, and movement of the dancer's body in synchronism with the music, disposing at least one celebrant's head in an opening in a foreground enclosure and limiting the movements of the at least one celebrant's head in lateral, longitudinal and vertical directions, recording a video appearance of the at least one celebrant's head in the opening during playing of the music to the at least one celebrant, and replacing the at least one celebrant's head in place of the at least one dancer's head at the positioning of the at least one dancer's head in the video of the dance routine to provide a video constituting a composite of the dancer's body and the at least one celebrant's head.