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Florida Town Bans Dance Clubs, Skating Rinks

Kevin Spak — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:22:56 CDT

Somebody get Ren McCormack on the phone. The town of Weston, Fla., has passed an ordinance that specifically bans nightclubs, dance halls, and skating rinks, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. None of those establishments has ever existed in the suburban town, and the mayor says they want to keep it...

Barred in Boston: Mosh Pits

Matt Cantor — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:13:36 CDT

Boston cops have had it with mosh pits. Slam dancing at a Flogging Molly concert last month, which featured fans "colliding into each other" with some "knocked to the ground," earned the House of Blues a police citation, the Herald reports. "Dancing is a First Amendment right, but the behavior...

'Grinding' Ban Kills Vermont School Dance

Nick McMaster — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:53:24 CST

Students of South Burlington High School have spoken—and if they can't grind, they don't wanna dance at all. After administrators banned "grinding"—a form of dancing that's ... actually kind of self-explanatory—nobody wanted to go to the Winter Ball, and it's now been called off, the Burlington Free Press...

Scientists Uncover ... Sexiest Dance Moves

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:46:00 CDT

Finally, scientists have answered the question that is surely foremost on your mind: What makes a person a good dancer? A new study to be published in a UK journal finds that women like men who know how to move their "core body region," a lead psychologist says. "The torso,...

This Is the Latest Dance Craze?

Evann Gastaldo — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:20:39 CDT

Mourning the death of the Macarena? Perhaps it’s time for you to learn the latest dance craze sweeping Brazil: Surra de Bunda or, according to Google Translate , “ass licking.” Gawker explains that the move, featured in dozens of NSFW YouTube videos, involves “hooking your feet over a man's shoulders and...

Breakdancing Teen in Felony Bust for Scratching Floor

Rob Quinn — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:48:51 CST

Police in suburban Buffalo made what's probably their first-ever breakdancing felony arrest after a teen ruined a home's hardwood floors while busting moves at a house party. The local sheriff says the intoxicated 18-year-old scratched the floors with his diamond belt buckle and caused some $3,000 in damage, the...

To Halt Grinding, Schools Turn to... Burt Bacharach

Jane Yager — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:25:00 CST

With some schools having kids sign no-grinding dance contracts and others threatening to turn up the lights and play Burt Bacharach, the crackdown on grinding at school dances is getting more creative. Schools and parents fed up with teens' overtly sexual dance moves are turning to unconventional methods to stop...

Watch Rush Limbaugh Dance

John Johnson — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:02:17 CST

The man is no conservative on the dance floor. In this video, Rush Limbaugh boogies to Lady Gaga's Poker Face "while doing the Jersey Shore fist pump," notes TMZ . "Yes, it's as awesome as it sounds." Limbaugh is a celebrity judge in some sort of competition related to the Miss...

Square-Dancing Steps Into Rock, Hip-Hop

Harry Kimball — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:29:00 CST

That tattered bastion of Americana, square-dancing, has fallen on hard times, but intrepid youngsters and older dancers eager to court them have turned to non-traditional music and methods to keep the practice alive. In Portland, Ore., a 20-something caller gathers friends in warehouses to do-si-do to punk rock. “It turns...