When I Hear "Liturgical Dancer"

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… what comes to mind is an image of Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn, the wife of the mayor in “The Music Man.”

You may remember the scene where she (played by Hermione Gingold) and her ol’ biddy friends performed a dance in which they formed “one Grecian urn, two Grecian urns.” The dance was part of a performance called “The Last Days of Pompei” (with the final word pronounced “Pompey-Eye”).
 
We had one once, but at that time there was no explicit instruction against it.
 
Liturgical dancing is as bad as pool…
–oh yeah–

ARTIST: Meredith Willson
TITLE: Ya Got Trouble
Lyrics [Music Man]
[snip]

I’m thinkin’ of the kids in the knickerbockers, shirttails, young ones
Peekin’ in the pool hall window after school
Ya got trouble, folks, right here in RiverCity
With a capital ‘T’ and that rhymes with ‘P’
And that stands for ‘pool’ [snip]

*Oh, we got trouble *Right here in RiverCity
Right here in River City
With a capital ‘T’ and that rhymes with ‘P’
And that stands for ‘pool’
That stands for pool
We surely got trouble
We surely got trouble
Right here in RiverCity
Right here
Gotta figure out a way to keep the young ones
Moral after school -
*Our children’s children gonna have**Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble… *

Mothers of RiverCity
Heed that warning before it’s too late
Watch for the tell-tale signs of corruption
The minute your son leaves the house
Does he rebuckle his knickerbockers below the knee?
Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger?
A dime novel hidden in the corncrib?
Is he starting to memorize jokes
From Cap’n Billy’s Whizbang?
Are certain words creeping into his conversation?
Words like… swell?
And… ‘so’s your old man’?
Well if so, my friends, ya got trouble

Oh, we got trouble
Right here in RiverCity
Right here in River City
With a capital ‘T’ and that rhymes with ‘P’ and that stands for ‘pool’

That stands for pool
We’ve surely got trouble
We surely got trouble
Right here in RiverCity
Right here
Remember the Maine, Plymouth Rock and the Golden Rule?
Our children’s children gonna have trouble
Oho, we got trouble
We’re in terrible, terrible trouble
That game with the fifteen numbered balls is the devil’s tool Devil’s tool
Yes, we’ve got trouble, trouble, trouble
Oh, yes, we got trouble here, we got big, big trouble
With a ‘T’ With a capital ‘T’
And that rhymes with ‘P’
*That rhymes with ‘P’*And that stands for pool
That stands for pool
 
…I also expect to hear:
  • “Eucharistic Minister”
  • “Pastoral Administrator, Sister Soandso”
  • “Faith Community”
  • “Gospel reflection”
  • Alternative lyrics for the Agnus Dei
  • The Precious Blood being poured out into glass “chalices”
  • “Lord of the Dance”
…but never:
  • GIRM
  • Redemptionis Sacramentum
  • Latin
But then again, I may not have stuck around long enough to hear these other things! Find me at the orthodox parish across town.
 
…I’m thankful that I’m only hearing and not seeing “Liturgical Dancer”! 😛 :rotfl:

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Karl Keating “The Last Days of Pompei” (with the final word pronounced “Pompey-Eye”). [/QUOTE said:
. . . as in my old KJV pronouncing Bible, Sarai is indicated Say-ray-eye, Sinai is “Sigh-nay-eye,” and Isaiah is “Eye-zigh-ah.” Don’tcha love it?

Takes your mind off the “dancing.”

One observer noted that there can be no conversion [of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ] without sacrifice. Thus, the Sacrifice of the Mass, on many levels, is an inappropriate setting for dancing, which in our culture, is associated with joy.
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twiztedseraph:
We had one once, but at that time there was no explicit instruction against it.
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Is there now? Just curious. I can’t remember the last time I saw liturgical dancers.
 
I recall them leaping up and down the aisles of the church in bodysuits, long filmy skirts with dirty bare feet during the Gloria.
So glad I see them no more now that I attend an orthodox parish church.

P.S. LOVE the comparison to the “one Grecian urn, two Grecian urns”. Great movie.
 
I think of the last time they were shoved down my throat, at a bishop’s installation nonetheless. Offensive is what comes most readily to mind.
 
If I ever become a diocesan priest, I’m going to say a Latin mass and make sure one of the Hymns is Lord of the Dance. Just to throw people off.

I actually like liturgical dancing. I just think it has no right to be in a western liturgical ceremony. Learn your audience, people.

Josh
 
Karl Keating:
… what comes to mind is an image of Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn, the wife of the mayor in “The Music Man.”

You may remember the scene where she (played by Hermione Gingold) and her ol’ biddy friends performed a dance in which they formed “one Grecian urn, two Grecian urns.” The dance was part of a performance called “The Last Days of Pompei” (with the final word pronounced “Pompey-Eye”).
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Karl,
What memories you’ve brought back! When I was younger my oldest sister played “Rustlings of Spring” on the piano (as they did in the Grecian Urn scene) and my three other sisters and I would dance into the living room and strike the poses that my sister called out–one Grecian urn. . . two Grecian urns. . . and our favorite, the Chaquita banana. In this pose, my sisters would surround me (the banana) and then peel away dramatically.

Little did I know we were on the cutting edge of liturgical dancing 30 years ago!
 
I think it sounds like a good name for a race horse, Liturgical Dancer, out of Dissent by Call to Action
 
Liturgical Dancers? :confused: Seriously? :whacky:

What’s next? That Liturgical Light Show? MegaDeath singing the Gloria? The Priest celebrating the Mass with a tamborine and bare feet? Good grief! Why don’t we just join the Protestant movement and get it over with, if we’re going to allow that nonsense.

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I think it sounds like a good name for a race horse, Liturgical Dancer, out of Dissent by Call to Action
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You get multi shamrocks for that one – still laughing.

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