When I give talks about dance I often have to remind
myself of what an Archbishop of Constantinople said in the 3rd Century.
Something along the lines of, “Whenever I see dancing there will I find the
devil.â€
It’s a reference from a book by the sociologist and
cultural commentator Barbara Ehrenreich called ‘Dancing in the Streets’, which
charts the consistent suppression of dance and dancing in Western and Western
imperialist, and primarily Christian cultures throughout history.
Anyway, how many of you have glimpsed or even
watched Strictly Come Dancing or any of the other dance programmes crowding our
TV screens...
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