Seeing photos of White Flint as it looks today, I was overcome with blended feelings of nostalgia and a depressing finality, like when you hear a song associated with a specific memory -- taking your first road trip, or dancing the night away with your best friends -- and realize it was a defining experience you'll never have again.
We asked him if the real inmates 2km down the road were now were dancing about like the waxworks.
We waved as they continued dancing down the road of happily married bliss.
I stopped the car in the middle of the road, got out and started dancing.
"We were dancing in the road; they started beating us," said Solomon Gardea, 30, an unemployed opposition supporter who said a bullet skinned the back of his head as he turned to run away.
When confronted with something out of their comfort zone, like me and my boyfriend in full drag dancing down the road, Muslims - like all British people - get flustered and overcompensate by being overly polite — a bit like Hugh Grant.
Bellen was the author of "Kid Bethlehem," a controversial book of poems inspired by the artist Ivan Schwebel, whose paintings depict scenes from the life of King David, but set in modern Israel (for instance, the painting "David dancing down Jaffa Road with the ark" shows David in a modern street, with cars and storefronts).
He had the Lavantille Rhythm Section in his band and me and my friends were dancing in the road for hours behind the spirited percussionists, losing ourselves to the slow, rolling rhythm.
My cab driver in Freetown, laughing at my need to steady myself as we zigzagged over potholes en route to my hotel, described the highway as a "reggae road" ("because you, my sister, are dancing Bob Marley as I drive!").
Today, you can find them almost every night that they aren't on the road, donned in makeup and crowns dancing to the beat of a kendang drum.
It's been a long, colorful road of clowns, trapeze artists in sparkly spandex, dancing elephants and surly tigers.
