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October 5 - Get Funky Day

Posted October 5, 2020


This "holiday" seems to be a marketing scheme for a gym named FunkyTown - and, believe me, with the craziness imposed on indoor in-person businesses during
the pandemic, I can well understand needing a marketing scheme or two!

But I'm never one to waste a perfectly good holiday idea. I mean, even without that particular gym being in our hometown, and even if gyms are closed because of the pandemic, there's no reason why we can't get funky, at home, safely!

Dance along:



Funky Town - practice your robot dancing?










World Teachers' Day








Great Books Week 
(First full week of October)






(First full week of October)





(First Monday in October)






(First Monday in October)




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May 25 - National Tap Dance Day

Posted on May 25, 2020

In an earlier post, I mentioned that May 25 - that's today! - is Bill "Bojangles" Robinson's birthday - and he's a super famous tap dancer. 

Which is why this is ALSO National Tap Dance Day.

Tap dancing originated in the United States - mostly within the black community in the U.S. Enslaved black Americans were usually deprived of drums and other percussion instruments that were part of their African traditions, and so a kind of percussive dance was developed. This dance form ended up being influenced by Irish dancing and clog dancing from the British Isles. 

Early tap shoes had wooden soles. Sometimes dancers attached pennies to the heel and toe. These days tap shoes of many different styles have permanently attached metal taps that are quite a bit larger than a penny - but are still located on the heels and toes.


To celebrate Tap Dance Day, check out some different styles:


Rhythm tap by modern great Savion Glover

Rhythm tap by a group


Classical tap - a sort of combination of ballet and tap!







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April 29 – International Dance Day

Posted on April 29, 2014

Dancing – it's an art form seen in every human culture.

Turn on music with a good beat in a room full of toddlers, and you can see dance (of sorts) being reinvented all over again!











Many non-human animals, even, can dance. And it's not just animals that have been carefully trained, either. Scientists have determined that bonobos, sea lions, cockatoos, and other animals can make motion in synch with a beat—and without any training to do so, they will adjust their motions to keep up with the beat if the beat gets faster or slower! 








April 29 has been International Dance Day ever since 1982, when the International Dance Council announced the new holiday. I have a feeling that the holiday's creators would be pleased with the popularity of dancing and of dance shows, these days, especially “So You Think You Can Dance” and “Dancing With the Stars.”

How do you celebrate a day like today?

  • Dance (of course!) – either put on some music and just move and groove to the beat, or get together with some friends and hold a dance party.
  • Learn to dance – there are amazing numbers of YouTube videos you can use to learn country, ballroom, or jazz dancing, or hundreds of other sorts of dance!
  • Watch a dance movie.
  • Or enjoy dance through videos. Again, there are soooooo many to choose from; the difficulty won't be finding dances to watch, it will be choosing which of the thousands you want to watch...

Check out a variety of dance forms.


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Chemist Harold Urey's birthday








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