Dance to the Underground

According to this, a Sydney nightclub promoter has started a campaign to ban a style of dance that he says is a danger to other patrons. Apparently, 'shuffling', a 'mix between the moves of one-hit wonder MC Hammer and the frenetic steps required by dancing machines in amusement arcades' has long been a staple of the Melbourne rave scene but is only now taking over Sydney.

"It used to be in those clubs where people stood two metres apart from each other and they were all on ecstasy, so if they bumped into each other they'd give each other a hug," he [Tim Sabre, nightclub promoter] said.

"In Sydney, on the other hand, they try to do it on a crowded floor while drunk.

"You need precision and when you're drunk you lack that, so when somebody goes staggering around and hits the wrong people … it's not good."

Well, booze + dancing = dangerous. Obviously... WRONG! says DJ Peter Glass.

"That's their self-expression, that's what dancing's about," he said.

Duh, ain't you never watched 'So You Think You Can Dance'? That's an art. I'm quite pleased that this long-overlooked form is finally being recognised. Don't believe the smear campaigns.

Bad dancers: danger to society. Keep children away at all times.