Dance is the hidden language of the soul - Martha Graham
The world has known some great national leaders from Gandhi to Abraham Lincoln. From General de Gaulle to Nelson Mandela. Britain's current "great leader" is Theresa May. This week she has been in Africa desperately trying to strengthen business links prior to our nation's catastrophic departure from The European Union . At the I.D. Mkize secondary school in Cape Town, South Africa she was greeted by a crowd of singing and dancing schoolchildren. Of course Mrs May had to join in:-
She has such natural rhythm. See how she got down with the kids and how her body was fluent - at one with the singing. As a geography student at St Hugh's College, Oxford in the seventies she must have been dynamite on the dance floor. Perhaps the reason she only achieved a second class degree is that she was too busy having a good time grooving to the music
There was only one word that came to mind - cringe.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how you would have danced if you were the prime minister Sue.
DeleteIf I was prime minister I definitely would not have danced.
DeleteOn second thoughts, I would have done an impressive Floss Dance.
DeleteIf Theresa May hadn't moved to the music, she would have been lambasted. Damned she did; and damned if she hadn't.
ReplyDeleteNot everyone has natural rhythm; and there are not many white folk who have the natural, fluid dance movements the indigenous African people have. Just listen to the music of Babatybe Olatunji...his wonderful "Drums of Passion", for instance, first released in 1959.
Most of us, whether we "have the music in us", or not, move to it in our own clumsy ways.
I agree that it was not an easy situation for her.
DeleteI say bravo to her. She did what she had to do. In fact, I suspect her entire term as prime minister consists of doing things she has to do but would privately rather not do at all.
ReplyDeleteShe seems so awkward to me. The kind of person who would normally shun the limelight.
DeleteI bet you wish she dance to something at home!
ReplyDeleteShe probably dances the can-can at home - just for her husband.
DeleteI agree with Lee and Steve - not a comfortable situation but she did it, and with a smile.
ReplyDeleteShe doesn't seem like a proper leader to me. Her awkwardness is apparent in most situations.
DeleteAPPLAUSE! Actually I think she didn't do bad and I praise her for joining in with the kids. Now, as to Brexit . . .
ReplyDeletePerhaps Mrs May's style of dancing will spark a new dance craze around the world.
DeleteOne of the few uk news in the last year that actually was not cringe worthy, but to each ones own opinion I suppose.
ReplyDeleteI think the reason Mrs May's dancing was highlighted in the British media is because it was funny and typified her stiff, upper class manners.
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