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7/28: Cape May’s Annual Baby Parade PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEKSEY MORYAKOV Sarah, Bill, Luke, Linda Harry, Jesse & Rachel Kiefer, Tom & Diane Myers Adelyn, Lyla and Sarah Page 42 EXIT ZERO August 3, 2023
The Activity Column Catherine Dugan’s guide to getting out there... this week, learn some new moves Kenny Loggins’ 1984 hit “Footloose” is trendy again, thanks to a video of a flash mob dancing to the song near Vanderbilt University’s campus in Nashville. The song exhorts us all to dance away our workday blues, and in the viral video, you can see bystanders start tapping their toes to the music. It’s a very human reaction. Prehistoric humans did circle dancing and line dancing. Historians speculate the dances might have been religious, but they also may have been for courtship or entertainment. People were belly dancing on the Indian subcontinent 6000 years ago. Hula dancing came to Hawaii with the first Polynesians, and the movements tell stories. The haka of the Maori people began as a way to show the strength of the tribe. The haka has evolved to celebrate — and to kick off the rugby matches of the All Blacks. American square dancing combined African, European and Native influences, with drums, cakewalk and call-and-response mingled with the reels from Scotland and quadrilles from France. Early 20th century American dancers learned from vaudeville, where performers like Harry Fox showed them the foxtrot and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson dazzled with tap dancing. After the Great War, America embraced “contortions” like the charleston and the shimmy, which could be done without a partner. Dance marathons kept the gentle one-step in vogue during the Depression, but swing dance and the jitterbug took over in the 1940s. In the 1970s, American Bandstand and Soul Train brought dance trends out of night clubs and into the living rooms, where teenagers could practice the Stroll and the Bump on Saturday mornings. Old-style MTV let us copy moves from music videos. Social media dances helped us connect during pandemic lockdowns. People learned to floss with their kids and copied claps and stomps from strangers dancing in their driveways. One of the most unexpected trends was the Jerusalema challenge with young people in Angola dancing to a Zulu gospel song. The upbeat tune went viral, famously making the leap to Ireland, where squads of Garda met the challenge on streets, rooftops, castles and beaches. While dancing in your living room is fun, try out your moves in public. Get down to Cape May’s Convention Hall for Dance Nights. Admission is free and you can learn new moves or just show off your own. August 9 is Latin Night — learn to salsa! On August 16, Kids Dancing is from 4 to 6pm, and Ballroom Dancing is from 6:30- 8:30pm. Country Line Dance Night is August 23 from 6 to 8pm. For more, visit www. capemaycity.com or call 609-884-9565. August 3, 2023 EXIT ZERO Page 43
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