Kevin Bronson on November 29th, 2017

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Signer-songwriter-filmmaker Haroula Rose is working on material for the follow-up to her dreamy sophomore album, 2016’s “Here the Blue River,” but in the meantime she’s been in the Midwest working on a feature film she wrote and directed. (“Once Upon a River” is due next year.) This summer, she released the one-off single, “Good for You,” a tune penned by a band with whom she was touring, Boston folk quartet Darlingside. The song, Rose explains, “is more of an acoustic ballad in their style … but I wanted to make it more celebratory and sing it in another voice.”

That buoyant vibe — and a single song’s power to elevate you beyond life’s most humdrum moments — is captured brilliantly in director Alex Thompson’s video for “Good for You.” It’s shot in a laundromat in Rose’s native Chicago (the singer’s father helped arrange the location) and features dancer/body percussionist Stephanie Paul, whose moves span the spin cycle of emotions.

Rose’s previous music video featured choreography in an unexpected place, too — the Los Angeles River. Because dance happens.

||| Watch: The video for “Good for You”