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April 11, 2014
Maybe it’s time to Bring back “Dirty Dancing”
You know what we need at prom? Dirty Dancing. Not the kind where girls stand in front of their dates with their pelvises smushed together, jerking their hips back and forth like a broken pendulum, typically off beat. There’s enough of that going on already. No, we need Dirty Dancing in the most Patrick Swayze sense of the term. We need dancing that would be featured in epic 80’s music montages. The moonwalk, electric slide, cabbage patch, and sprinkler. We need sweet over-the-head kicks and epic slow motion jumps. Granted, there’s a reason the movie is called “Dirty Dancing.” Have you seen those Swayze hips move? Goodness gracious, that’s a little steamy even for today’s standards. But the reason everyone loves watching the dancing in that
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movie is because it is passionate and impressive and downright athletic. It’s energetic and it’s fun. Dancing today has none of those qualities. It takes little to no skill to do the kinds of moves we see year after year on the dancefloor at prom. People always say Prom is an event that you’ll remember for the rest of your life, but year after year, high schoolers walk away from the dance disappointed, knowing it didn’t even come close to measuring up to their expectations. Maybe we can attribute its anticlimactic nature to the dead dancing we do at Prom. Spending hours standing in one place moving our hips side to side is not something we’re bound to remember on our death beds. That type of dancing doesn’t give you the exhilarating sensation that real danc-
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staffeditorial ing does--the type of dancing where you’re whirled around and dipped and made to feel weightless. It’s not graceful nor beautiful. And that is why we’ll forget about the eventless dance instead of cherishing the memories. Think about the lyrics to the song playing in the climactic moment of Dirty Dancing. There’s a reason Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes could belt out “I Had the Time of My Life”--because dancing back then was totally radical! It was something worth remembering. This year, let’s make prom worth the memories. Let’s make Patrick Swayze proud. Whip out your Baby moves! (But you can leave the huge hairdos and crop tops at home.) Let’s mix it up this prom and actually DANCE at this year’s dance.
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