UPC Upper Body Synchronized Dancing
 

I am surprised there have been no threads here about the UPC National Youth Congress that just concluded in Louisville, KY.

Here is a video clip of a group called "Elevation" who does the synchronized signing to music that has become popular the last few years in some areas of the UPC.

I call it "upper body synchronized dancing" because that is what it is . LOL. I like it and have been blessed by it in person.

A few years ago I was at a UPC church in Texas and saw a group from the Tupelo Chilren's mansion do an incredible job to a very moving song. I remember just wishing that the UPC allowed lower body dancing as well as upper because that would have made it even better.

One side note from the group in this video clip from the National Youth Congress is that it appears the giant Pentecostal beehive hairdo is making a comeback! I remember as a young man at the 1975 GC thinking I could have stayed home and just bought the tapes because there was no image magnification back then in the arena and every woman in front of me hat hairdo's 2+ feet high! LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=304jB....be&nomobile=1

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I will have to say that I am surpised.

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Not

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CC1, wasn't '75 GC in Ft. Worth and the departure conference for Bro. Hamby and Bro. Phillips? I was at that conference. Remember it well. Just didn't remember the date for sure.

And by the way, I thought I saw some "lower body synchronized dancing" in that video. Not being critical of the young folks, just passing on an opinion! It was great. Feel sorry for the two young men, tho. I believe there were two.

Been Thinkin

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Meh. It has a hint of actual sign language in it so it gets a pass. I thought this stuff was dumb the first time I saw it and i still think it is today. Turn off the loud music and you just have women waving their arms around pretending to minister to deaf people.

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Entertainment does not belong in the church.

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Pitiful.

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I know, right?

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We had Holy Hands in our church. I always enjoyed the worship of God those youth displayed.

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Wow, looked like there was a HUGE crowd at NAYC13.

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MY style of dancing.

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...dia34875en.jpg

My brother took his kids and some of my other friends were chaperons for their youth group. They said there were over 18,000 kids there! NAYC has been bigger, and better, than GC for years now.

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Upper body sync dancing is fine, but I don't want to see any lower body gyrations! :happydance

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Been Thunkin', you are correct that the 75' GC was in Ft. Worth. The departure conference for KP and MH was actually a few years later (I think 78'. I should remember because I was there)

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I met with some folks this past weekend who were there and they said around 20,000 young people were there.

i was at the very first Youth Congress back in 1979. It was nowhere near that big but for a first time event very successful as there was thousands of young people there.

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Can you elaborate?

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I was trying to find a good video of the sign team from Tupelo Children's Mansion that I saw a few years ago. This is the only one I found. The camera is handheld and at various times people stand in front of it BUT you can see that these guys are really synchronized and very good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll6qlDK_GIg

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Thanks :)

I've always had a small soft spot for people who sign while singing.

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I love synchronized dancing, but I think it's interesting that they have to throw sign language in there to make it "okay".

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The church I used to attend started a 'sign choir' or whatever, meaning they do what they do from the choir stand.

The began this I think as a way for the deaf in the church to have something productive to do...take part as it were.

There are deaf folks in this group as well as hearing folks, and it is beautiful to see.

At the church I now attend, the children have a group 'Signs of Praise'. It is so neat to see the children, some very young, signing.

And by the way, we have deaf members of our church as well.

I do not consider what these 2 groups do as dancing or entertainment at all...

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It is dancing and entertainment when there are no deaf people present.

Had this going on a few times at a church that I used to attend. It was said that it is a ministry. Fine, bring in the deaf. Did they, no?

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I find it both a blessing and entertaining. I don't think they have to be mutually exclusive!

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What's wrong with dancing in church?

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Dancing, huh, yeah
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Uh-huh
Dancing, huh, yeah
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again, y'all




:slaphappy

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Not here.

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what happened to
real good Godly worship.Church has become a performance

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Amen.

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Fine. That's your opinion. I disagree.

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When the children in our church are signing there is worship, by the kids and the adults.

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I love when the lights are turned down and the youth are in dark outfits and the put on the white gloves and start signing to a song. The presence of God quickly showed up it was worship. Something that I remember that I still miss once and awhile.

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Why is it that a choir singing isn't entertainment, but let that choir start moving their bodies to the beat and SHAZAM! It's no longer godly.

David danced. His wife laughed. God laughed harder.

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I belonged to a UPC church not long ago that has this ministry. It's really awesome.

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And if you have never witnessed a service with Eddie James, you are missing something great.

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One of the few things I miss from our UPC days. It was such sweet worship.

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To me, there is nothing like having youth people on the stage of the church 'performing'. It beats where they could be doing much, much worse.

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Y'all not deaf. How does this minister to you? Did you get goose bumps?

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:thumbsup

I've never been in a service or concert with Eddie James, but I LOVE his music!!!

:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

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I have seen this type of dancing in Charismatic churches but I never thought I would see it in UPC. I had heard one UPC in Florida had this dancing and I e-mailed them but never heard back.

I have heard it called interpretive dancing and I have heard it called prophetic dancing (don't understand either one). Usually it is slender people - never any over weight people that are doing the dancing.

I have seen people do the sign language in church services and it usually one person off to the side in a special seating section for the hearing imparied.

What I want to know is there a sign language person for every song and the preaching too?

At a church conference (not UPC) sometime ago and they did the same thing. What some people mistake for the anointing is the song itself is anointed and not the dancing.

I believe in dancing in the spirit and shouting and running the isles and it is true David danced before the Lord with all his might. He saw the ark coming down the road. We have had good church services through the years, were we wrong all those years by not having this type of dancing. I remember when the power of God came upon me for the first time and it surely wasn't chorographed.

I guess I am old fashioned and that is ok. I am going to Heaven and let the people do what they want but I going to make it.

I would never have thought I would see it in the UPC.

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I was there for the NA Talent Search (which this performance was part of, Worship Arts category), and I enjoyed it because it was expressive, joyful praise. I didn't get goose bumps (is that the litmus test??!!), but I enjoyed watching a group of young people praise God. The choreography makes it pleasing to the eye, and that's where it can be called an "art" I suppose. :)

There was a lot of leaping and moving around the stage, so there was certainly more going on than the upper body. However, there were no hip gyrations or anything that could be even remotely pegged as inappropriate or sensual.

I think the sign language is thrown in to make it more interesting. You have to have a bit more dance skill to make choreography interesting by itself.

Why? They looked like they were having fun, too.

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Oh, Bro. Epley! :D If your church still dances like it used to, there's synchronized dancing every service!!!! :happydance:happydance:happydance