Russia: Like Maybe the Bunny Hop?

Despite the best efforts of the party, Moscow has been invaded by the twist, the frug and almost every other deca dent dance step devised in the West.

Last week Soviet Dance Master Igor Moiseyev suggested that the only answer is for Russia to develop its own national political dance. "I don't want to squeeze out the West in the field of dance," Moiseyev told the All-Union Seminar of Soviet Ballroom Dancing Teachers in Moscow. "But I do wish to actively express our ideology through it." The dance, Moiseyev says, "should reflect the collectivism of the Soviet way of...

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