{"id":798,"date":"2015-05-06T17:34:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T21:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brookfield-ct\/?p=798"},"modified":"2015-05-06T17:34:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T21:34:37","slug":"april-fools-day-the-most-foolish-dances-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brookfield-ct\/blog\/holidays\/april-fools-day-the-most-foolish-dances-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools\u2019 Day &#8211; The most foolish dances in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dance-brookfield.com\/images\/stories\/abc_carlton_141007_dg_16x9_992.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Did you know it\u2019s illegal to dance at all in the small, midwestern town of Bomont? April Fool! Movie buffs will know Bomont is actually the fictional town from the 1984 movie \u201cFootloose.\u201d Kevin Bacon certainly looks foolish in his iconic warehouse dance scene, but who doesn\u2019t look silly every now and then? It\u2019s good to remember that it\u2019s ok to laugh at ourselves, and what better time to laugh than on April Fools\u2019 Day? So crank up the volume, put on your dancin\u2019 shoes, and enjoy our list of some of the most foolish dances in history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>\u201cFootloose\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong>Complete with 1980s pop music, pelvic thrusts and an impressive, yet unexpected gymnastics display, this dance scene definitely makes the list as one of our all-time favorite foolish dances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Carlton<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No foolish dance conversation would be complete without the Carlton, the dance Alfonso Ribeiro made famous in his role as dorky cousin Carlton on the hit 1990s sitcom \u201cThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNapoleon Dynamite\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who can forget Napoleon\u2019s sweet moves in the cult classic \u201cNapoleon Dynamite\u201d? Vote for Pedro!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gangnam Style Oppa Gangnam Style!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Korean pop star Psy was made world-famous for his silly dancing in this viral music video from 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Farley<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry, we haven\u2019t forgotten about the late king of foolish dancing &#8211; Chris Farley. With surprising flexibility and no limits to what he wouldn\u2019t do, Farley never failed to keep us laughing. Check him out in all his glory in these two SNL skits featuring his outrageous moves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Bowie and Mick Jagger \u201cDancing in the Streets\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t even know what to think about the strange dancing in David Bowie and Mick Jaggers\u2019 music video for their classic hit \u201cDancing in the Streets.\u201d Full of jerky movements and silly hopping, these 1980s cool guys look anything but. This foolish dancing is definitely worth a spot on our list!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learntodancewithfred.com\/articles\/dance-pop-culture\/april-fools-day-the-most-foolish-dances-in-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source:Learn to Dance with Fred<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know it\u2019s illegal to dance at all in the small, midwestern town of Bomont? April Fool! Movie buffs will know Bomont is actually the fictional town from the 1984 movie \u201cFootloose.\u201d Kevin Bacon certainly looks foolish in his iconic warehouse dance scene, but who doesn\u2019t look silly every now and then? It\u2019s good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brookfield-ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brookfield-ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brookfield-ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brookfield-ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brookfield-ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brookfield-ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brookfield-ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brookfield-ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brookfield-ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}