Archive for May, 2009

Adding a little spring in the Saturday routine: the Dance Parade

This blog has been dormant much too long… long enough for the first 100 days of the Obama administration to be celebrated and commentated.

This Saturday’s Dance Parade in Manhattan is as good a pretext as any to wake it up, shake it up,  and step it up.

A few moments from Tompkins Square Park, where the parade broke up after going down Broadway. There were tutorials, shows, and general shimmying and sashaying…

DanceParade_embrace… and jumping for joy…

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… and catching a lot of springy-flowery acts…

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… and getting involved…  DanceParade_Pompom… and clapping and tapping…

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… till the feet hurt…

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… and you never know who you might run into.