While dancing back to front, all dancers must remain upright - no sexual bending is allowed. Examples are, no hands on knees, and no hands on the dance floor with your buttocks touching your dance partner. There will be no touching of the breasts, buttocks or genitals. There will be no straddling of each others' legs. Both feet must remain on the dance floor at all times. Students will be given wrist bands at the door. One warning results in a teacher cutting off the wrist band. A student dancing inappropriately with no wrist band will be asked to leave the dance. This may result in loss of dance privileges for the year.The dance will be videotaped to insure the safety of all students attending.
dancing with both feet on the dancefloor at all times.
I think you can just do the robot.
You can definitely moonwalk...
The sexy, sexy robot.
There will be a lot of shuffling.
Though I guess the Melbourne Shuffle is out, too. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWdtZTbgXcM
>There will be a lot of shuffling.
I'm suspecting there's already a "no shuffling your feet while you walk" rule in place, and they're looking to entrap people by way of contradictory rules.
Heh. Reminds me of work-to-rule: apply all rules fairly and without discretion, and you get nothing done. :)
You can do the Hokey Pokey. No, wait, that requires being able to touch your knees. So the standard dance of kindergarten classes is forbidden.
Well, that'll make the videotapes more interesting to watch, at least.
So the Charleston constitutes sexual bending?
By these standards, the Vienna waltz constitutes sexual bending.
First you show some ankle, then soon it'll all be jazz and bathtub gin, and then where will we be?
Chicago, if we're lucky.
Running a house injurious to public welfare and morals, that's where.
Mod parent up!
Ha!
-bZj
Wearing concrete overshoes off a pier somewhere I guess.
blind tiger'd?
If they are under 18 and performing "sexual bending" when it is videotaped does it become child pornography? And if it is, are the dancers or the videotapers sex offenders?
I'm going to go with a solid "Yes" on that one.
Another question: If the dance participant(s) are in wheelchairs, are they violating the rules if their feet are not touching the ground all the time. Honestly, I'm appalled that they employing such insensitive and exclusionary wording on the matter.
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Wonder how much of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAAAV7BB1HU would be banned... can't keep the Lindy hop down, jive turkeys!
That is one of the most awesome things I have ever seen.
Lindy Hop. Find a club near you!
Kompressor is pleased.
"This may result in loss of dance privileges for the year."
I'm sorry sir; I'm going to have to confiscate your groove license. You are not, repeat not permitted to strut your funky stuff at any time.
Oi! No walking in time to the beat, either.
After these restrictions, what dance privileges remain?
Oi! No walking in time to the beat, either.
That's not too bad. After all, if you walk without rhythm, you won't attract the worm.
I guess if you're caught doing the Lambada they just shoot you on the spot.
If my son says he was dancing then that's what he was doing-dancing. And if you are arresting kids for dancing then you've got a serious problem cuz there's a lot worse things these kids could be doin- a lot worse. This I know. BEAT STREET
As funny as this is, honestly it's nothing new. We actually got rules exactly like this at my junior high (!) dances. I recall being told that if any of us tried to do the lambada we'd be suspended. Take that Union Grove HS!
Forget the content, they deserve to be shot for the choice of typeface.
ha ha! No kidding! :P
The Methodists are taking over again!
Would organizing them all to do a gothic night "tree dance" be a proper form of protest?
ROFL!!
fixed.
will be videotaped to
insureensure the safetyAnd we wonder why people make fun of public education in America...
I thought Kevin Bacon won this war 30 years ago.
If our Lord wasn't testing us, how would you account for the proliferation, these days, of this obscene rock and roll music, with its gospel of easy sexuality and relaxed morality?
"Dance, the vertical expression of a horizontal desire."
An old teacher of mine once told me how her bored, skint pupils at her school in Edinburgh used to make a few quid by going "bending"--posing as male prostitutes down the railway station toilets and mugging the Johns.
http://www.worldsbestprom.com/about.html
I was born there but moved away before going to any schools. You can buy the DVD for some insight into why the schools might put those sorts of rules in place. It's a creepily interesting DVD, btw.
--Robert