Earlier today, Kathie Lee & Hoda were answering viewer's questions on gender stereotypes, discussing gender non-specific toys, as if this were the latest politically correct semantics dance, a passing hoopla for which we should get on board if we want to appear "social savvy".
If a prima ballerina corrects your dance step, great; if it's your jealous cousin Lulu, maybe not so much.
Because that's the thing, isn't it nobody really wants to fight, it's just sometimes a single raw emotion gets a bit big and out of hand, and everyone has to make the right noises and enact the correct animal dances so they can go back to their mates at the bar without a single punch being thrown and say, "I definitely won that".
Because that's the thing, isn't it – nobody really wants to fight; it's just sometimes a single raw emotion gets a bit big and out of hand, and everyone has to make the right noises and enact the correct animal dances so they can go back to their mates at the bar without a single punch being thrown and say, "I definitely won that".
Moreover, their presentations of three familiar ballets suggested that there is no single correct way to dance Balanchine, just as there is no single correct way to interpret a Beethoven symphony.
FIX IT NOW!!!!!" Snapping to, I grabbed for the volume control, yanked it down and threw on the correct father-daughter dance song, Bob Dylan's "If Not You".
Rather than providing the anthemic soundtrack for fashionistas and wannabes eager to demonstrate they understand the codes – to be seen in the right place, wear the right clothes, dance in the 'correct' way – wrong house is the sound of real life in all its glorious unpredictability, its swerves and sensuality.
The retrieval of the correct music matching a dance figure is only the first step of the auditory feedback.
On the rare occasion when enough young ladies can be gathered at precisely the correct time, a sacred dance called the Fortuitous Moulting may be performed.
A successful performance brings respect and prestige for all participants who dance the correct steps which are traditionally said to "demonstrate control over behavior, manner, and skills" and "symbolize... a set of special values linked with a higher social class".
