The Dance

Okay, so I have been to many young single adult (YSA) dances over the years, and while they are all a little bit strange, the first dance I went to in the Northwest put everything else to shame.
This dance was for multiple YSA wards in the area. They decided to hold it outside, and everything seemed pretty much the same as I was used to, at first.
Everything changed went this random song came on (I didn’t know it), and all of these people screamed and ran to the middle of the dance area and began to do a choreographed dance number. Not just a line dance or something, but a full fledged dance routine. I was stunned and a little bit scared. I asked some people who were also standing and watching what was going on and they said that this ward does this all the time. So I am thinking that this is completely and totally freaky, but the song ends and everyone moves on.
Then, I notice that some of the girls are doing something strange during the slow songs. When they don’t have a partner to dance with they begin to do “interpretive” dance. Very weird. They are doing ballet leaps and turns all around the dancers. This continued throughout the dance.
Later another song (that I don’t recognize) comes on and the “DJ” announces that he knows that everyone knows this dance and he wants to see it. Again there is running and screaming as the same ward heads to the dance floor. But, this time it is a partner dance. This dance is again choreographed, but there are lifts as a part of the routine. Actual lifts….. My jaw was on the floor and then it took all of my effort to keep from rolling on the floor with laughter. A choreographed dance number, with lifts. I felt like I was in some musical and I didn’t quite know how I got there.
And wait, there is more…. Towards the end of the dance, this guy gets on the mic and says that he is going to beatbox for us. First, he has to explain what beatboxing is (as if people didn’t know). Then he proceeds to beatbox, very badly. He then tells us he is going to beatbox the Star-Spangled Banner, which he does (and if he hadn’t have said what it was, I never would have recognized it). Through all of this I am laughing so hard I am crying and I am trying not to be too obvious because everyone else is just taking it as a normal occurrence. Later I found out that this guy beatboxes at every dance.
All-in-all, it was a very strange night. But, it is something I don’t think I will ever forget.