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To: Carolyn who wrote (120437)	9/8/2006 11:05:23 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

Check out the picture accompanying this..it is hilarious. Dance, dance, whoever you may be The tango arrived in Europe from Argentina in 1912. It was banned as immoral by the Archbishop of Paris in 1913 (but thankfully made headway in London when Queen Mary asked to see it danced at the English court in 1914). Last week the Archbishop of Glasgow came out in support of firemen who refused to hand out leaflets at a gay pride event because they didn't like gay people. The Old Testament rants against dancing and homosexuality and in parts of the Islamic world the penalty for either is death. Say boo! to religion's misery industry by going along to Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo at the Peacock Theatre in Holborn later this month. Grown men in tutus leap through classical ballet - disturbingly queer, astonishing dancing, and the third thing it celebrates is also anathema to religion: laughter. There's something about the clash of incongruities which is hilarious. The combinations of energy and lightheartedness, of surprise and tradition, of talent and self-mockery, all welded together by sheer love of life, produces that which religions are always going on about but so rarely transmit: joy. W B Yeats thought dance was the highest art because in dance the form and content were one. Dance is at the heart of gay culture and women's liberation. When people knock the youth of today I say hang on, basically they must be wonderful because they so love to dance. Archbishops are beyond hope, but firemen should learn to dance. It would make them better at putting out fires. Here's a thought: I've never seen a sailor dance the hornpipe. Can any of them still do it? FIRST POSTED SEPTEMBER 8, 2006 thefirstpost.co.uk