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Jult52 quotes a friend as saying "if pop music were to disappear, what would people dance to?"
And (coincidentally) today a dancer friend of mine told of appearing as a guest teacher at a high school in Massachusetts. He asked the students to bring in some music. They brought in Britney Spears. So he showed them how to improvise a dance with the recording. The next day he brought in Le sacre du printemps, and showed them that the same improvisatory techniques they were using with Spears could be applied to Stravinsky. Within minutes, the energy in the room was exploding.
On the third day, he said, "Okay, which one today? Britney or Igor?" The vote was unanimous, and the soon a gaggle of teenagers was happily stomping about to The Rite of Spring.posted by Lawrence Dillon
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