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Originally Posted by CC1
A couple of years ago I was at a mainstream UPC church when the Tupelo Children's Mansion group was visiting. A group of around 4 teenagers (two boys and two girls if memory serves me right) did "signing" to a powerful song. They were awesome but the reality was what they were doing was synchronized dancing from the waist up - LOL.
I kept thinking that I wish I could see what they could really do if allowed to use their bodies from the waist down. It was obvious they had tremendous dancing talent. Had to keep those legs and feet still though so they could say it wasn't dancing!!
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Being Tupelo they they probably learned long ago that they had to walk a pretty tight line when out on tour. My daughter's group used their feet as they would turn around when one or two "signers" were doing a sort of "solo" thing. Then, while turned to one side they would sort of step in place in a low key fashion to the beat of the song.
They would also step around their individual space in a choreographed manner that was pleasing and symmetrical to the eye of the viewer. I guess this is what you do when you aren't allowed to do a full on "Glee" type of production.
This was pretty common in most "mainstream" UPC churches. The church where my daughter performed in these things is very much the "typical mainstream UPC church." They were even identified in Thomas Fudge's book as being part of the "conservative" branch. Whatever.