I Just love a Happy Dance

What people haven't read is both Doroschuk and a few other vocalists like Jagger, can actually free dance at a higher level of awareness absorbing the music similar to a musician playing an instrument. Before 1975 in the SF Bay Area, minor numbers of people danced at live major rock concerts with open standing before the era of paid seating. One's motor and aural minds in rhythmic harmony. As a lifelong similar, Doroschuk draws from the same human Earth creature neuroplastic motor structure that strong natural dancers develop from. We are what we do. The more one dances the more it becomes automatic like riding a bike. And that is where play can start. For those few that dance all their adult life at least occasionally at high levels, amazing mind body states are possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Safety_Dance
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The writer/lead singer, Ivan Doroschuk, has explained that "The Safety Dance" is a protest against bouncers prohibiting dancers from pogoing to 1980s new wave music in clubs when disco was declining and new wave was coming in. Unlike disco dancing, which is done with partners, new wave dancing is done individually and involves holding the torso rigid while thrashing about; pogoing involves jumping up and down (the more deliberately violent evolution of pogoing is slamdancing). Clubgoers doing the newer pogo dance were perceived as posing a danger to disco dancers on the dance floor, and so club bouncers would tell pogoers to stop or be kicked out of the club. Thus, the song is a protest and a call for freedom of expression.
 

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