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This Crazy Dance Parade Tomorrow Is NOT Rapture-Related
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Ben Yakas
Published May 20, 2011
Modified May 20, 2011
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Oh sure, we're in store for a serious Biblical-style comeuppance tomorrow—but what if everything doesn't end? It might sound like crazy talk, but there are other fun things happening in the city tomorrow besides Rapture Looting Parties and all of this. And that includes the 5th annual Dance Parade in Manhattan!
The parade, which will showcase over 74 different styles of dances with more than 10,000 dancers, will start at 1 p.m. at 21st Street. The march will kick off with a Japanese Group, in honor of the earthquake victims, before continuing down Broadway with everything from pole-dancing, to stilts, to disco. They offer this preview: "Hula, swing and samba our way past Union Square and into University Place. At Eighth Street we will Salsa, Tango and Waltz East into Saint Marks Place and our Grandstand in between 3rd and 4th Aves." The march will end with a DanceFest in Tompkins Square Park, including free dance performance and lessons.
You can watch a promo video of the event below. And hey, it's the perfect thing to do while you're killing time for that other event to happen.
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Ben Yakas
Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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