Busting Some Moves

Our friends Chris & Claire have been staying with us for a few days on their way to Vietnam and home to Melbourne in a few weeks. It's been really great having them. Last night we went out to the local park to check out some of the communal dancing that happens every night, I think for both fitness and fun. It's really popular here. The park is full of different sound rigs playing all kinds of music from traditional to dance competing for decibels, it's a real cacophony of noise. Some of the sets only attract a few dancers, or consist of a few friends performing a rehearsed routine, while others attract hundreds of people in line dancing style rows. Here's a couple of video's...in the first you can see Chris, Claire & Em tearing up the dance floor. I think Claire wins the dance off although the dance leader probably wouldn't approve of her individual break out moves. The second one shows the guys with the sound rig and the leader of the whole thing who wears a radio mic and calls the moves. I can't really imagine this taking off in our culture, we're too self conscious and just don't have this kind of group mentality, but the people here love it.