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Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. I'm Josie Long, and today's episode is a wild, exciting audio experiment all around dance. And I remember when I was a kid. So here's the thing. I'm not a good dancer, but I put a lot of effort in.

And I feel like when you got your report, school report, you'd be graded for effort and attainment,

not just attainment, and I think we should bring that back. Efforts very important. And I'm inspired

a lot by two of my friends that I met at university, both of whom are among the most

enthusiastic and exuberant dancers I've ever met. And one of them, her style is a lot more

statementy. Each move has its own name. I can remember one of them being called, even I can't

believe how awesome this is, which was basically a move where you just kind of shook your finger in front of you into your sides.

But this isn't doing it justice. It was an incredible move.

And then my other friend, his style was a lot less hemmed in by convention, I suppose.

What we would do is we would go to quite drab indie nightclubs.

And then he would leap all over the floor, writhing and jumping and twisting around,

like a swan about to take off in the water.

Absolutely shocking in its intensity and movement.

And that's the energy we're going to bring to the show today.

I hope you enjoy it.

Mr. Stetson, you've banned the twist from your two dancing instruction institutes in London.

Now, why, you think it's a moral, but what is a moral about it?

The knees and pelvis are used in such a way that the dancer is making very suggestive movements.

Does the fact that the two don't dance together,

or they tend to suggest to go away on their own more or less, does this worry?

Yes, I have an extreme objection to the fact that this is not what is called a couple dance.

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