Friday, October 11, 2013

Dancing for Change

I came across this on Facebook and I thought I should share, especially after our discussion about cultural contexts in class today.


This is such an interesting form of protest and gives us another avenue of discussion about why art is used instead of something else (like a picket line or the more traditional petition at the beginning).  Here dance is used to protest working conditions and the response from the Walmart customers (and take a look at the smiles on the workers' faces towards the end) is very positive although the manager did call the police. It's pretty serious if you get arrested for dancing.

2 comments:

  1. That's pretty awesome! haha I'm definitely going to send that to my brother, who is a security guard at Walmart. I'm going to bookmark it too, when I'm teaching about civil rights in SS11 again. Also, I think it's pretty great that they did exactly the same dance as our group. Definitely learned it from the same videos! haha

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  2. Yeah, I thought it looked familiar. :) You guys were good, but your performance lacked their civil disobedience.

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