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Dancing for the sake of dance: NYC residents take to the streets
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by Kaitlin | May 25, 2007 at 01:59 pm
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We here at NowPublic have been covering New York's tendencies towards becoming a nanny city over the last year (No trans fats? No metal bats? No iPods across the street? No slurs?) Not least of all the bans was the ban on dancing in many clubs and establishments--a silly law leftover from Prohibition days. New Yorkers being New Yorkers, they don't go down without a fight...or at least, a parade.
The dancers’ goal was to show the world, and New York lawmakers, that dance is an expressive art form and should be legal in more venues around the city. The city’s Prohibition-era cabaret law currently bans dancing in premises that do not hold a cabaret license. According to Metropolis in Motion, a group advocating “freedom to dance” in New York City, amendments to the cabaret law have reduced the number of licensed, dance-friendly venues from 12,000 in 1961 to 244 a year ago, with this number dropping by 15 every three months.
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at 08:57 on May 26th, 2007
Kaitlin, hard to believe you need a "license" to dance. Fight the power -> Good stuff.