Let's Face the Music and Liturgical Dance

Now there are those who swear that dancing is a carnal, unspiritual activity unsuitable for worship. There are those that go farther, and say it is an offence - that the uncontrolled jigglings of human bodies were never intended to be displayed at all, even in private, let alone in a setting of invocation and praise.  There are some concerned that the presentation of a gyrating human form may generate feelings of lust most unsuitable in a holy setting.  And there are others that remember that David danced with all his might before the Lord.  Yet others say the human body is a temple, and dancing is most appropriate in a worship setting as we remember that we are both physical and spiritual and rejoice in our corporeal nature.  But I worry about those.

Any way, everyone's feeling quite shocked by this morning's Liturgical Dance.  Very racy indeed.  That was a very tight leotard which seemed designed rather to accentuate than to conceal.  The pink taffeta trimmings seemed out of place.  And I don't think that the fluorescent pop socks are necessarily appropriate to a solemn ceremony like Pouring out of Beakers.  And that make-up!  Garish is not the word.  Gold lip-stick and eye shadow?  All in all more suited to a discorama than to the solemnities at hand.
Anyway, I've had a word and Marston says he won't do it again.  And we're confiscating the leotard.  Ugh.


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